Construction Quality checking my sales shortlist: Dormeo Octosmart-Plus-Hybrid, Sealy Advantage Waltham Latex

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Hi,

Thank you everyone for sharing your knowledge and expertise, though outside these regions, this is the 1st place I’ve found any talk of construction or materials and while that’s made me abandon my initial deadline, I appreciate the information and tutorials.

That said most of my personal attempts to request this kind of information have failed and I’m mostly seeing related post from 2013 in the forum.

Though far from optimal, my initial filter had ended up revolving around some significant sale prices and the hope that a single hybrid would be a safe bet between familiar springs and side-sleeping focused foam; having only owned the former and tested the latter in stores.

As such, I’m hoping I could at least potentially check for construction red-flags with the two mattress that discounted their way into the top of my short list.

The Octosmart-Plus-Hybrid promises a lot and some old post here support most of the construction quality, if not the full price, but a lot has changed with the company in the last 12 years and I now see some concerns about durability.
On sale at amazon for 321.00, but no trial/returns. The main site offers 200 nights, but costs 460.00 and will not speak about/support-for any other official outlets.

Despite hearing praise for it, I originally thought Latex might be out of my budget, but found the Sealy Advantage Waltham for 350.00, with a 100 night returns trial.

The branch I have access to hides that they’re part of an American mega-corporation and I see some suspicion about Sealy construction here, as well as the possibility that their patented posture springs may just be sales spin, to use open, rather than pocket springs. So paying more, just to have latex, may be a false economy.

I know no-one can just tell me if these are right for me, but maybe if they good, or good value mattress, or if anyone could speak to their materials or construction quality, that would be very much appreciated.

Thank you for any insight you can offer.

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My own fault for holding back, but the prices changed.

Dormeo up by 30.00.

The Sealy 40.00 … but now says the normal price is 800.00, not 400.00.

That’s why I can’t trust prices.

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Dont worry about $40.

Only way to know is to try it out.

Or move on to something else.

Dormeo Octaspring looks gimmicky but maybe you might like it.

John

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Thanks for the advice.

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Hey TheArcSet.

Welcome to our Mattress Forum. :slight_smile:

If you could find the updated foam density for that memory foam layer on the Octosmart, that would be helpful in determining the useful life of the bed. As a rule, springs are the least likely to be the weak point in a mattress.

I’d definitely buy direct in this case. Outlets, etc are going to have their own rules with restocking, etc.

The upside to the Waltham is that the latex is likely to be more durable than the mystery memory foam in the Octosmart.

For their price range(s), there are certainly worse contenders out there. These two are pretty solid, from what I can surmise.

NikkiTMU

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Thanks NikkiTMU.

That’s reassuring.

I admit, much of my hesitance was that I was that, from an initially massive “short” list, I ended up focusing on the octosmart because google threw a national paper’s list at me and I saw that their premium-budget option was hundreds off everywhere else at their official Amazon front.

But this sites and some review have made me concerned about the longevity of so many separate layers. Even if it promises more bells and whistles, at a lower price.

In contrast, I saw the latex by chance and was tempted to stretch up to that, because I previously thought any latex mattress would be beyond my budget, after seeing a store’s springless bed.

Right now I’m thinking of going for the Hybrid Latex, as even if it might not be the best I could buy, I’d hope that those materials would be long-lasting and there’s a 100 actual return trial, not just a swap.

The main thing I’m still considering is that I started looking at hybrids because general advice and a Sreams mechanical bed said I should go softer as a side sleeper, but sites either call the Waltham medium-firm, or say medium, with reviews calling it firmer than expected.

That said, I’m no idea how firm my ancient mattress was originally meant to be and even it’s tags have somehow rubbed off, so I’m hoping that most hybrids would probably be softer.

Though I wonder if a basic felt-blanket protector might hamper latex conforming to the body.

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Thanks again.

I haven’t found the Dormeo specs, but I have found sites listing supposed specs for the Waltham:
1 lists Innergetic latex (secret “high natural” blended), where as most just list natural latex.

another lists 561 springs under a 5.51"/14cm comfort layer and later an unspecified density of 0.52 kg/m^3 (0.00000852127328kg/cubic-inches?)

I’m still tempted to it, as my take is that even if blended, Latex is probably good for the price range, but the rest of the construction seems on the cheaper end, if not necessarily poor quality. Maybe speaking to the shorter warranty.

I’m currently wondering how other memory-foam hybrids with 1-2K pockets springs would compare to their 561 open coils. The rem-Fit 1K hybrid being 100.00 less, with 200 night trial and 15 year sagging guarantee, the 2K mattress around 40.00 more.

Will the 5 inches of blended latex make the springs mostly irrelevant, or is such a lower number of coils likely to be noticeable, as I heard some people say 800-1000 was discernible for thinner hybrids, though not necessarily with latex.

Thanks for your insight.

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