Brooklyn Bedding Best Mattress Ever

[phoenix]

HI atomheartmother,

Thanks for the help. We’ve been using the US Box Spring with the mattress for a few weeks now. It’s definitely an improvement and seems much more consistent and stable.

I’m glad things have improved. People often underestimate the importance of the surface upon which their new mattress is placed.

How much indentation/body impression should you expect to develop on the mattress? By morning (and probably earlier than that), there is a definitely noticeable body impression where I’ve been laying. If I slide to the middle of the bed (where just our 22 pound dog lays), there is a noticeable upslope.

All foams soften a bit over time, and with any new mattress there will be a loss of the initial “false firmness”, mostly within the first 90 days or so, and the more gradually thereafter. To help even this out, you can try to use as much of the mattress as possible so that it “breaks in” more evenly.

The impression is still there even an hour later and seems to gradually go away over the day. By night, he impression is mostly gone. Maybe it’s there slightly relative to the mostly unused middle.

The latex used in the upper layers of your mattress will have an instant response back to resting height, but there could be a slight recovery of the quilted polyfoam and fiber in the quilt panel as the day goes on. Also, there will be even more “loft recovery” in any poly filled quilting you may have in your mattress pad as the day goes on as well.

Is this normal? It’s not a huge issue unless the impression becomes more permanent or deeper.

Some body impressioning is normal, and your warranty allows for up to 1" of impressions before it can be considered a defect in materials.

The mattress does seem to firm over the course of the night as my body sinks in. Not much but it seems barely noticeable. Still, the mattress is already a bit firm for me, so it doesn’t help. Is this normal?

Your body won’t sink in much more throughout the night than when you first get into the mattress, as there are no viscoelastic (memory foams) present in the mattress than become softer (less viscous) with your body heat through the night. The latex and the polyfoam core beneath generally stay quite consistent. If a mattress is too firm for you, you don’t want to sink in more in the deeper areas, as this would negatively impact alignment. Your better option would be the addition of a topper or change to slightly softer upper comfort foam layers.

Finally, are there recommendations for mattress toppers/pads or whatever their called? It doesn’t look like BB makes them; though, I thought I read about people mentioning them. More softness in the comfort layers would make it more comfortable (kind of wishing we went with the BBE Soft).

Brooklyn Bedding does have a topper line (mattresstopper.com). There are also some topper guidelines in post #8 here that you can use, and some of the better sources for toppers of which I am aware are in [url=https://forum.mattressunderground.com/t/foam-factory-any-good]post #4 here[url].

Phoenix