Factory Direct Mattresses in the Toronto, ON and GTA area

[phoenix]

Hi DHC,

I did try a few at Soma and I may go back, since I need more time there. This one stood out, I think (I need another chance to be sure): www.somasleep.ca/product/144/. I’d be curious to know what you think. It was $2300. It’s less latex overall, but perhaps more complex, etc., I’m not sure.

I can certainly confirm that like the other mattresses you are considering this mattresses also uses high quality materials and there are no lower quality materials or weak links in the mattress. If you are confident that it’s a good “match” for you in terms of comfort and PPP and that you will sleep well on it and it also compares well to the other mattresses you are looking at based on all the other parts of your personal value equation that are most important to you then it would certainly be well worth considering.

I can’t afford to go into and above the $3K mark, which is where all of them seem to be, unless I’m mistaken, in which case I’d love some suggestions of mattresses that are zoned and in the $2-2.5K range.

As I mentioned in a previous reply …

I don’t keep a record of the individual mattresses that the retailers and manufacturers in the hundreds of forum lists throughout the forum carry on their floor (it would be a bigger job than anyone could keep up with in a constantly changing market) but checking their websites and making some preliminary phone calls to the retailers/manufacturers that are on the forum list that are in reasonable driving distance is always a good idea before you visit any store anyway. This will tell you which of them carry mattresses that would meet your specific criteria, are transparent about the quality and durability of the materials in their mattresses (see this article), and that carry the type of mattresses that you are interested in testing in the budget range you are comfortable with. Once you have checked their websites and/or talked with the ones that interest you then you will be in a much better position to decide on the ones that you are most interested in visiting based on the results of your preliminary research and conversations.

You have many other options available in the general Toronto area and many of them are in lower budget ranges than you are looking at but you will need to check their websites or talk with them on the phone to find out which ones carry mattresses that fit your criteria that you would be interested in testing.

The difference between Dormio and Soma is that Soma allows you to exchange the mattress within 90 days or some time frame, whereas Domio allows you to switch out or change layers. That’s quite a bit different. Also, if I were to get the Euro or Dolce Vita from Dormio, as the salesman himself said, my options are limited in terms of what I can do with each 4" chunk, and I don’t think going from a medium to a soft will be an option as that would just be too soft for me. So I don’t I have as much options to change things around, especially if I don’t want to spend quite a bit more money.

I would keep in mind that any exchange options are built in to the cost of a mattress and a retailer that allows a mattress exchange rather than just a layer exchange will need to build the higher costs involved into the price of their mattresses because the majority of people who don’t return a mattress or exchange a layer are the ones who pay for the minority that do.

For the majority of people … with careful testing (using the guidelines in the tutorial) their choice will generally be “close enough” that if any fine tuning is necessary it would be relatively minor and involve different mattress pads, sheets, mattress protectors, or perhaps even a topper (if their mattress is too firm) or a layer exchange (see post #4 here and post #10 here).

Phoenix