Hi fridadc,
Thanks for the update. I’m glad you’re sleeping a bit better, even though it’s been only a few days with your new mattress.
[quote]I went ahead and stopped by a local mattress shop to get a low profile 5 inch foundation (the brand is Therapedic). I got it installed and I didn’t think much of it but I think I made a mistake. I started to feel some pressure points in my hip and lower back (I sleep on both positions) which I wasn’t feeling before the new foundation was installed and then I checked underneath and this new foundation has slats all across (correction, after talking to the guy at the local mattress store after I wrote this post, he told me that it does have slats across but they are underneath). I feel some big slats or beams on the top of the foundation so it’s not a 100% flat surface I guess (hope I am explaining this ok). My mattress is an encase coiled mattress, here’s the info : www.roomandboard.com/catalog/bedroom/ran...d-coil-mattress-soft
Is it possible that I got the wrong foundation? I didn’t think it would matter too much but I guess it does. Do you have any recommendations?[/quote]
It sounds as if you purchased a typical wood slatted foundation from your local store, which would be common for most modern one-sided mattresses. There is more detail of the actual difference between true “foundations” and actual coil “box springs” in post #1 here. The term “box spring” is often used as a common catch-all descriptor for the piece under the mattress, regardless of the construction.
Room & Board lists that your mattress doesn’t need a box spring and can be used in a platform bed situation, which would be a similar support surface to the foundation you received at your local retailer. Room & Board does offer a “box spring” on their web site, but they offer no information about the construction on the inside of the product, so I’m unclear as to whether it is some sort of a foundation or a true coil “box spring” unit (which wouldn’t generally be as common).
If you feel that the slats on the top deck of the foundation you purchased locally are spaced too far apart and are allowing your mattress to “dip in” between these slats and you are feeling discomfort because of this negatively impacting your alignment, this could certainly be a possibility and you might want to replace the foundation. But I don’t know that this is necessarily the case, and you could do a comparison by placing your mattress directly upon the floor and see if there is an improvement in your comfort. Just to note, it would not be normal for a foundation to have a solid top deck. There would normally be a welded wire grid network or a slatted network of wood (spacing varies by manufacturer).
I would take a closer look at your foundation and evaluate the spacing and find out exactly what is inside of the Room & Board “box spring” before making any other decisions.
Phoenix