Another Newbie

[phoenix]

Hi cn1ght,

Thanks for taking the time to share your update … I appreciate it.

bought an 8" latex mattress which is 2" soft talalay 2" medium dunlop, 3" firm dunlop. I actually have only spent 1 month sleeping on it as the second week I was out of town for business.

Just for the sake of clarity and for others who may read this … if you bought the 8" special (see here) then it has two 3" layers (firm and medium Dunlop) with a 2" layer of soft Talalay in the top layer with a stretch knit unquilted cover.

I am not happy with the mattress and think I need to go back to looking for a mattress to better suit my needs. Essentially what I have found is that I need to add the pillow topper on top of the soft, medium, firm to begin to feel comfy, but there is simply not enough support that way and my back is clearly not aligned. On the other hand I did try medium, soft, firm without the pillow topper and that was simply not comfortable at all and I had to add the pillow topper to fall asleep at all… I also tried soft firm medium, yet again no dice.

I’m sorry to hear that your mattress isn’t a good match for you but there are some suggestions in post #2 here that may be helpful assuming that your mattress is too firm for you (which wouldn’t be all that unusual for a mattress with a 2" soft comfort layer over medium and firm Dunlop and an unquilted cover). It’s also possible that doing an exchange for a softer middle layer (soft Dunlop) would also be very helpful since this mattress would probably be firmer than most of the mattresses you seemed to like that you mentioned in your earlier posts and adding a softer middle layer may be helpful. In any case I would certainly talk with SleepEZ so that they can also provide some suggestions that may be helpful.

So the only way I would actually like a latex mattress would be if I bought a polyfoam or some other material topper to go on top of the mattress at which point it makes no sense for me to have bought an expensive 100% latex mattress in the first place.

I’m not sure why this would make no sense because any combination of materials that provides you with good PPP (Posture and alignment, Pressure relief, and Personal preferences) and that you sleep well on and that doesn’t have any weak links in the design would make a good choice regardless of the materials that were part of your sleeping system. Your mattress has a thinner stretch knit cover and there are many people that prefer some form of quilting material in the cover (or even as a topper) such as polyfoam or wool to provide a more relaxed sleeping surface (or a softer sleeping surface) compared to sleeping more directly on a more resilient material like latex. There is more about the pros and cons of quilting vs stretch knit covers in post #12 here and in post #6 here.

I really REALLY wanted this mattress to work out. I kept telling everyone how great this was going to turn out, how I could modify the mattress myself by switching the layers and how great latex was… and in the end I am going to need to return it because the non-pure latex mattresses I had tried are what I wanted so when I got the high quality actual latex mattress it was just not a good fit for me and now I am going to get a few laughs (at me) for having gone through this whole ordeal. At least I can laugh with them.

One of the benefits of having the foresight to buy a component latex mattress (that also has a good return policy) is that you have good options available to you after a purchase to fine tune the mattress and still have the benefits of having high quality and durable materials in your mattress but of course which of these you may wish to try would depend on your own preferences and priorities but at least you know they are available if you wish to take advantage of them. It’s certainly not unusual to need some fine tuning to find the combination that works best for you.

Phoenix