Build your own latex spring hybrid?

Hi AT,

As long as you can confirm that the quality and durability of the materials in any mattress (particularly in the upper layers which are generally the weakest link of a mattress) are suitable for your body weight and there are no weak links in a mattress (see the durability guidelines here) then there would be no inherent reason to be “wary” of any type or category of mattress.

Every type and category of mattresses will have a very wide range of choices and combinations of the specific properties, thicknesses, or firmness of the materials and components inside it that can make one mattress in that category a good match for you in terms of PPP and could make a different mattress in the same category completely unsuitable for you to sleep on.

Assuming again that they are all good quality and durable versions of the types of materials and components that you tend to prefer … the type of materials or components in a mattress is only a preference and/or budget choice rather than a “better/worse” choice and if a mattress is a good match for you in terms of PPP and isn’t “on the edge” of being too soft for you and it meets the minimum quality/durability guidelines then it would be reasonable to expect that it will last you for 7 - 10 years and I would treat anything more than 10 years as “bonus time” anyway since after that the weakest link in how well you sleep on a mattress may be changes in your own needs and preferences.

Phoenix