Coming down the home stretch on a latex mattress purchase

[phoenix]

Hi dsw61,

Thanks for the update.

It sounds like you are making some great choices and it’s good to hear that you will also have “matching” mattress and foundation covers as well but of course the real test is sleeping on them and I’m looking forward to your feedback once you’ve put all the components in your sleeping system together and had the chance to sleep on them.

My understanding is that Radium has target ILD numbers for their natural latex of 18, 23, 28; for the firmness range I was looking at for the top layer. 23 seems like a good compromise between what some are selling as soft (19) and medium.(28).

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Still shopping for a decent all natural mattress protector. Those things are a little pricey at around $170 for a queen.

You’re certainly right that wool quilted cotton mattress protectors are generally more costly than other types of mattress protectors that are available because the materials they use are more costly. You’ve probably seen this already but there is more about the pros and cons of different types of mattress protectors and some examples of each of them in post #89 here.

Phoenix