Hi ellemas,
[quote]Incased Pocket spring coil: Steel
Frame: Polyurethane foam 1.5 lb/cu.ft., Polyurethane foam 1.5 lb/cu.ft., 100 % polyethylene
Filling: 100 % polyester, Polyurethane foam., Polyurethane memory foam.
Ticking: 100 % cotton, 40 % lyocell, 60 % polyester
Ticking: 60 % polyester, 40 % lyocell
Can you please shed some insight on whether you think this is a decent mattress for a price of $650 (Queen)? I am going to visit Parks Furniture in the next few days and want to use the Hultsvik as a basis for comparison.[/quote]
There is more about the most important parts of the “value” of a mattress purchase in post #13 here.
Outside of how well match a mattress matches your specific needs and preferences in terms of PPP (Posture and alignment, Pressure relief, and Personal prefercenes) which is always the most important part of “value” … a mattress is only as good as the quality of the materials inside it (regardless of who makes it) so before I could make any meaningful comments about the Sultan Hultsvik I would need to know the specifics of what was inside it which they don’t list on the Ikea site (see this article).
Having said that … unless you can confirm that the materials in the Hultsvik are higher quality that I would think they are … Ikea typically uses 3 lb memory foam in their mattresses and this along with 1.5 lb polyfoam are both lower quality materials than I would be comfortable with in a one sided mattress (see the guidelines here) and I would tend to avoid a mattress like this (or any mattress where you can’t confirm the quality of the materials) unless it was in a much lower budget range where durability and the useful life of a mattress wasn’t a significant issue.
Phoenix