Hi annwill,
Just for clarification … CertiPUR is mainly a certification for the safety of polyfoam and memory foam and doesn’t indicate the quality of a material.
[quote]I contacted Darryl with the Mattress Warehouse and he said that his upper end mattresses use this:
All upper end products use a minimum of 180.34 for upholstery grade foams, and all cores are at least 5.3 to 5.8 lb density. The average mattress uses a 105.30 grade foam, so ours are nearly double the industry average. Most of our beds are two sided also, which means you can flip them to keep body impressions out.[/quote]
180.34 means that the foam is 1.8 lb density which would be a good quality material. The 34 is the ILD of the foam which isn’t important to know because it’s a “comfort spec” not a “quality spec” and your own personal testing on a mattress will tell you more about whether a mattress is a good match for you in terms of PPP than the firmness specs of the materials in a mattress. You can see the foam quality guidelines I would suggest in post #4 here.
[quote]Here is what his web site says for one of his higher end mattresses:
Mattress Specifications
Model (PN 8454)
880 foam encased pocketed coil unit
Foam encased for additional edge supports
2″ ultra soft tack and jump quilt foam with fr fiber
1″ visco memory foam
2″ Supersoft Comfort Foam
2″ comfort foam
2″ support foam
Deluxe continental foundation
Starlight cover
10 year warranty
It looks like they meet the density requirements. Are there any other questions that I should ask him? I don’t think any of his foams are CertiPur though.[/quote]
You would need to find out the specifics of each layer in the mattress (see this article) rather than using the more “general” information he gave you. If the foams he is using are made in the US then they are most likely CertiPUR certified and would be “safe” since most of the US foam pourers/manufacturers have CertiPUR certification (see here). Without knowing the specifics of a particular mattress you are considering there isn’t any way to confirm that there isn’t more than “about an inch or so” of lower quality materials in the mattress and make sure that there aren’t any weak links in the design in terms of the quality and durability of the mattress.
Phoenix