Hi,
I would like to thank Phoenix for this great website and forum, truly a very helpful resource.
My wife and I have tried both memory/poly foam and latex mattresses locally, and we prefer the feel of the memory and poly foam to latex; the latex seemed too âbouncyâ for us. I have decided to build a mattress made primarily out of high resilience poly foam, with a comfort layer consisting of a higher density memory foam.
I am 5â11" and weigh 180 lbs. My wife is 5â3" and normally weighs around 115 lbs, though she is pregnant at the moment and currently weighs around 135 lbs. Her discomfort while sleeping on our ~ 6 year old Simmons pocket coil mattress is what spurred this search for a better bed.
We are both primarily side and back sleepers and prefer a softer feeling mattress while still maintaining good spinal support.
Testing locally we both found the Serta iComfort Talent (http://mattressworld.ca/products/mattress-sets/specialty/icomfort-talent.htm) and Tempurpedic Cloud Luxe to be comfortable in the showroom. Though I was skeptical about the quality of the materials in the iComfort, and the Tempurpedic was just too expensive and I could not see the value in it.
I am in Canada and have found a source through your mattress forum (https://en.memoryfoamcomfort.ca) out of Quebec that sells high resilience poly foam 2.5 lbs, with a support factor of 2.8.
That being the case, I have this particular configuration in mind:
3" - Soft 14 ILD 5 lbs Aerus Visco Memory Foam
3" - Medium-Firm 28 ILD 2.5 lbs High Resilience Poly Foam
6" - Firm 35 ILD 2.5 lbs High Resilience Poly Foam
I am thinking that the 3 inches of 28 ILD poly foam would act as a transitional layer between the soft comfort layer and the firm support core.
Can you give me your opinion on this configuration, and how it would potentially feel overall in terms of softness / firmness?
Is the topper/comfort layer going to be satisfactory in terms of quality in your opinion?
I would also like to encase all this foam in the 4 way stretch non-quilted zipper cover from https://www.sleepez.com. They say that this cover is made for latex mattresses, but that memory/poly foam would work as well? Would you recommend this cover for this application?
Thank you for your help.