Christeli Astoria vs Tempurpedic Contour Elite and weight difference :(

[phoenix]

Hi LBL,

I heard back from Jay and he assured me of their quality so I opened one of the mattress boxes. Everything expanded quite rapidly except the 3" top layer.

Yes, they do use good quality and durable materials. The memory foam top 3" layer would take longer to expand that the rest of the mattress. 24-48 hours is normal for full expansions for most memory foams.

The Astoria is a 3" memory foam encased in a quilted material that goes on a 10" Polyfoam bottom covered base. The Polyfoam covered base immediately formed nice and square corners and everything.

To update my information from yesterday, the two pieces of polyfoam are a total of 8" and they are a 2 lb density. The memory foam is the 5.3 lb at 3".

It looks to me like my “Hand Made” Astoria Twin XL was shipped with a Twin top and the correct Twin XL base. At least I hope so. This would be unthinkable if not because it would drive me insane!

Yes, your entire mattress is hand made (they’re actually made to order). I would “put a wave” through the topper, as there is some flexibility in the cover used for this mattress and if it still isn’t the appropriate length, then you may very well be correct and you may have been accidentally sent a twin topper for use with a twin XL base, and I’m sure you’d be provided the correct topper if that was indeed the case.

Waiting to hear back again from the company. I have attached pictures of the bed and the mattress tag I received, such as it was. Weight of filling materials: 33 LBS 6 OZ. So less than I even thought. All the rest is padding material around the foam.

This would make sense for the weight of the base mattress. Two pieces of 2 lb density polyfoam at 8" total in twin XL would be roughly 28 pounds ((38808 ) / 1728) 2 = 28.14 lb. Combined with the covering and the fibers, this would add about another 5 pounds. The topper would be roughly 28 pounds in a twin XL ((3880*3) / 1728) * 5.3 = 28. That’s without the covering.

I’m not sure what I think about the feel of the bed. It’s not a Tempurpedic.

Hopefully you’ll get the top memory foam panel figured out within the next day or so. And the item you purchased isn’t purported to be a Tempurpedic, but a comparable feel in this particular company’s lineup, as I explained in my previous reply. For some people, an approximate comfort to something they tested in-store from another brand is quite satisfying, especially taking the price savings into account (everyone has their own personal value equation), and in the case of the Astoria, some people even enjoy the ability to rearrange the bottom polyfoam layers to create different comforts. For others, not so much. But that’s something only you can determine through your own personal testing and preferences for a specific comfort, as ultimately your comfort is the most important part of this equation.

Phoenix