I have the broad strokes of what I would like to do laid out but am pretty lost on the details of what specifically to order.
We have a 12-year-old Simmons Beauty Rest Vivaldi Plush that has served us well but is beginning to age. My plan is to reuse its coils and build a DIY hybrid. We have experimented with a Sleep on Latex 3" soft Dunlop topper on our current bed and found it fine. It’s a hair firm for my taste and a hair soft for hers. I know the feeling will change drastically once placed on a proper support layer as opposed to a mattress, I just wanted to know if we tolerated the feel of latex.
[b]Sleeper A: 6’4" 185lbs side sleeper, prefers a softer bed, does not typically like memory foam
2" soft or supersoft latex (14-20ILD?, probably Talalay)
2" soft or medium latex (20-30ILD?, unsure if Talalay or Dunlop… it would be easier to nail down the transition if 25% and 65% ILD numbers were routinely published)
Beauty Rest plush coils
Sleeper B: 5’2" 120lbs mostly back occasional side sleeper, typically uses many pillows for support, prefers firmer and likes memory foam (but is not mandatory)
2" 5lbs memory foam
2" medium to medium firm latex (28-34 ILD?, unsure if Talalay or Dunlop)
Beauty Rest plush coils[/b]
I’m really struggling to decide between Talalay or Dunlop, and also the firmness of various layers. I know that Dunlop is more often suggested for transition or support layers but I’d like to have as much flexibility as possible in moving these layers around. I might get lucky and nail this first shot, but I’d like to leave open the window for tweaking. It’s part of the reason I tentatively chose all 2" layers; if it’s a better idea to do 1" latex and 3" memory foam, for instance, I’m all ears!
Budget is not super important, as any DIY will be loads cheaper than anything else we buy. For instance, if DIY fails my wife is probably just going to buy a Tempur-Pedic. I don’t particularly like them, so we’d end up with some weird franken-bed split king consisting of two different consumer mattresses. I would however like to be efficient. I’d feel wasteful making excessive returns or throwing out otherwise perfectly good bedding.
CN: please help me choose some specific layers that would give me the best chance of success, thanks!
