Help buying a mattress in metro Atlanta, GA area.

[phoenix]

Hi soulgiver36,

I called Mattress Firm to see if they had the Grand Bed model because Christeli’s Lux Estate is comparable to it. I want to go lay down on it. When I Asked what the bed is made out of he said it was all tempur materials and that there is none other like it, kind of like the Coca Cola formula and that the Tempurpedic memory foam is special and it softens with your body heat and it’s unlike normal memory foam but I think he just gave me a bunch of BS. Is that BS or is there some truth to that?

Not surprisingly … there is “some truth” and “some inaccuracies” in the information they provided you.

While Tempurpedic no longer provides the specific information about the materials they use in their mattresses … to the best of my knowledge the specs of the Tempurpedic GrandBed are in post #2 here.

There is more about the different ways that a mattress can “match” or approximate another one in post #9 here.

There are also many different types and formulations of memory foam that each can have very different properties from each other (response time, temperature sensitivity, firmness, “feel” etc) and some people will prefer the properties and “feel” of some types of memory foam more than others even though in general they are all slow response materials that have a very low resilience (springiness). There is more about the different properties that can be formulated into of different types of memory foam in post #9 here and in post #8 here.

Phoenix