We’ve had our King medium for two weeks now. Here is our experience, thus far:
- Yes, make sure you have it on the foundation and positioned well. It expands quickly.
- As others have commented, it’s not a perfect rectangle. 1 1/4" on one side and 2 1/4" on the other, in each corner at the foot of the bed. Head of bed about the same. If it’s going to bug you, this isn’t your mattress.
- First few nights, it was really, really firm. Like an old cotton futon, matted and hard.
- After two weeks, it is quite a bit softer, but still a bit firm for us.
- Based on my experience in a store trying out other latex/other foam combo beds (e.g., Dunlopillo), I thought it would have more of a bounce and innerspring feeling than it has… it has some, but not as much as others I tried locally (then again, it’s 1/3 the cost than the others (or even less).
- We’d been on the fence between medium and soft. We’re now debating whether we:
a. Get a thick mattress cover/pad or a topper. Thinking of starting with the former and working-up. Currently we have just a thin (Sky brand) mattress protector that was rated “cool” on Amazon. We didn’t want to start by masking the factory feel, so we had a true starting point.
b. Replacing it with a soft. The problem is, we don’t know how much softer soft is. It’s all subjective.
c. Looking at other options.
To comment further:
- It’s fairly comfortable. We don’t have back pain from the mattress. However, it’s not as soft as we’d like in terms of our wants and perceptions. And, I sometimes wake-up feeling like I’m on a hard surface and have had some arm numbness… I’m a side sleeper.
- I’ve not slept through the night on it yet. Maybe it’s the mattress, maybe me.
- Love the (free promo) pillows. For me, they are the right height for side sleeping.
- We set the old bed up temporarily in my office as a guest bed. It’s an interesting side-benefit of getting a bed online and keeping the old. You can compare new and old, not something I’ve done before. Usually the guys that deliver the new bed, take the old one. I laid on the old one. It’s softer and I like that, but it’s clear it does not support my back as well. The foam does mold to curves better. To be fair, the old one, while a plush, high-end inner spring is 11 years old, I’m 200 lbs. and we’ve not rotated it as much as we should have.
Will keep updating our experience in case it helps others in their process.
Thanks,
AO