Innerspring or Full Latex

[phoenix]

Hi paisley,

I have recently burnt my hands with a memory foam mattress that I bought on Amazon and I scared of buying another foam kind of mattress. It started feeling very soft within 6 months and now we sleep on respective corners just to ensure that we do not sag in.

A mattress is only as good as the quality of its construction and the materials inside it and when you are dealing with many of the “cheap” memory foam mattresses that are sold online that don’t disclose the quality of the materials … it’s not memory foam itself so much as the specific quality/density of the memory foam they use that is the real issue. Many of these are marketed as being “high quality” or “comparable to Tempurpedic” when if fact they aren’t anything close in terms of the quality/density of the materials and they will soften much more quickly because of the loss of comfort or support that is a result of foam softening…

However, I turn a lot over the night, so I am scared about waking up my wife over the night on a Innerspring mattress, though she is a tight sleeper. I am also concerned about sagging issue which is supposedly very common with innerspring mattress

This is a similar situations with innerspring mattresses and as you can read in the first part of post #2 here … it’s not the innerspring that is normally the issue with sagging but the quality of the foam that is used on top of it. Some of the links it also includes also have more information about the many types of innerspring designs and how they may compare to a latex mattress. Some are much more effective at isolating motion (such as pocket coils) than others (the types that use helicals to connect the springs together).

It’s always important to know the quality of the layers that are used in the upper half of a mattress regardless of the type of support components or foam used because in both of these you mentioned (the memory foam you bought and the reputation for innerspring mattresses to sag) the use of lower quality/density materials in the comfort layers are the “weak link” of most mattresses and the support components (such as polyfoam with your memory foam mattress or the innerspring with an innerspring mattress) are not usually the cause of “failure” or the loss of comfort and support.

But, I am very confused between innerspring mattress or latex mattress even though the innerspring feels right when I lay down on it for 10 minutes. Is there anything I should look into innerspring mattress or a particular manufacturer, which helps me resolve both my concerns - motion transfer and sagging.

Hopefully the previous links have helped but I would focus more on PPP (Pressure relief, Posture and alignment, and Personal preferences) and the results of your own personal testing and what your body is telling you and on your own “personal value equation” when you are comparing mattresses along with making sure you know the “quality specs” of each component (especially in the upper layers) so you can make meaningful quality and value comparisons with other similar mattresses. Better retailers and manufacturers will also be much more helpful in providing meaningful information about their mattresses and helping you to know the pros and cons of each of their designs and components so you don’t have to learn what they already know.

The choice between different types of support layers and components is really a matter of personal preference and of course budget (most innersprings are less than most latex for example) and none of them are usually the weak link of a mattress.

Phoenix