Hi TemporaryCatatonic,
I don’t have any personal experience on their mattresses so I can’t comment about how they feel for me or someone else or how suitable they may be in terms of PPP (and hopefully some of the members here that own one of their mattresses will see you post and share their feedback) but you can see some of my comments and some feedback about Charles P Rogers in general in this topic (which is the one we are posting in) and in this topic. A forum search on Charles P Rogers (you can just click the link) will bring up more comments and feedback about them as well.
I consider the type of materials and components in a mattress to be a preference issue and there are many people who do very well with an innerspring mattress that uses high quality materials over the innerspring. There is more about the most important parts of the “value” of a mattress purchase in post #13 here but while I don’t recommend specific materials or components or make suggestions about any other preference issue … what I do recommend is that no matter what type of mattress you tend to prefer that it uses good quality and durable materials and that there are no obvious weak links in the mattress (see post #4 here).
I also don’t recommend any specific mattresses (polyfoam or innerspring or latex or memory foam or otherwise) because there are too many unknowns and variables involved to make a specific mattress recommendation for someone else based on specs (either yours or a mattress) or “theory at a distance”. Your own careful testing for PPP (using the testing guidelines in the tutorial post) will be the most reliable way to decide whether a mattress is a good “match” for you but if you can’t test a mattress in person then a more detailed conversation with a knowledgeable and experienced manufacturer or retailer that is more familiar with “matching” their own mattresses to different body types, sleeping positions, and preferences based on the “averages” of other customers that are similar to you would be a much more reliable source of guidance about making the most suitable choice (see mattress firmness/comfort levels in post #2 here). If you aren’t confident about the suitability of your choice then the return or exchange options that are available would also become a more important part of the “value” of your purchase.
Charles P Rogers makes their own springs for their Powercore mattresses but the others are made in China to their specifications (NOTE: this is apparently no longer be the case … see post #53 here). An innerspring isn’t usually the weakest link of a mattress and some of their mattresses use latex comfort layers which is a high quality and durable material so I would certainly consider any of their mattresses that had latex comfort layers and didn’t have more than about an inch or so of either polyfoam or memory foam where you didn’t know the density of the layer. If you can find out the density of any memory foam or polyfoam in their mattresses (if there is more than about an inch or so) and they are inside the foam density guidelines I would suggest then I would certainly consider these as well.
While they would likely be a better quality/value choice than most of the mainstream mattresses that most people end up purchasing … once there is about 2" or more of either lower quality or “unknown” quality materials in the upper layers of a mattress then there would be a potential weak link in the mattress and any purchase where you don’t know the quality of the materials and components in all the layers (especially the upper layers) would be a much higher risk purchase with a much higher chance of buyers remorse much too quickly after a purchase regardless of the name of the manufacturer. They told me that they don’t provide foam density information to their customers but some of the comments in the previous topics I listed seem to indicate that they may provide them if you are in the store.
If in fact they don’t provide the information listed here to their customers … I don’t think they are doing themselves any favors by not providing the information that their customers need to make a more informed choice and to make more meaningful comparisons with other mattresses … especially if they really are using higher quality/density materials than most of their mainstream competitors.
Phoenix