Hi SleepingNow,
[quote]Yes, this is what I am finding. Mountain Top’s “medium” Dunlop continuous pour is softer than Sleep On It’s “medium” regular Dunlop.
I kept a piece that Neil from Spindle gave me (his “medium”) and I love it but it’s too thick.[/quote]
Yes … the ILD of different types and blends of latex often don’t match up very well with other types or blends either because of differences between the latex itself or because of differences in how the ILD is tested (see post #6 here). ILD itself is also only one of the specs that affects how soft or firm a layer or material will feel (see post #4 here).
[quote]I’ve got the extremely firm Gardner mattress (tufted pocket coils w/wool & cotton) and to soften it up, I’m looking to go with either 2" of Mountain Top’s medium natural continuous pour (first choice) or finding something else such as 2" of another dunlop in an equivalent firmness. I also have two 1/2" pieces of LI’s natural talalay in an N2 (about a 20 ild) and another piece of the same which is a 1" piece (total 2" of LI’s natural talalay.)
3" of anything is too soft for me in any ild either Dunlop or talalay so I’m left with either cutting the continuous pour Dunlop (2" of that would be perfect!) or putting something a little firmer under the 2" of talalay and seeing if that might work but i don’t think so…last night I put 2" of the N2 talalay over the 2" of this new regular Dunlop “medium” which was too firm, and the whole set up was still too hard.[/quote]
You were asking about adding another of the N3 under the 2" of N2 in your last post and I wasn’t sure what the rest of the combination would be but if the N3 is softer than the upper layers of your mattress it would make the mattress feel softer and if it was firmer than the upper layers of your mattress it would make it feel firmer. There is really no way to know if it would be “soft enough” or to be any more specific than that because there are just too many variables involved that would be unique to each person.
Phoenix