I am new to the forum and have read through your overviews for each type of bed. Today was our first day shopping for beds and tried out mostly Foam and the few Latex beds that we could find. We found that we liked both foam & latex, but tended to lean towards the latex. We were shopping at furniture row and they did not have all of their latex mattresses out because of new items coming in. However, I just looked at their website that has this mattresses on there for 1699. it looks like it is nearly 100% latex with some HR Foam in the support layer. What do you think?
Snowmass by Denver Mattress King Mattress Set
Premium Talalay Latex conforms to every curve of your body, creating personalized comfort in a completely springless design.
Known for pressure point relief, and long lasting resilience, Talalay Latex is also naturally anti-microbial. The latex core provides excellent motion separation for couples.
Additional Information
15 Year Non-Prorated Warranty
Mattress Dimensions: 76 x 80 x 11.5
Foundation Dimensions: 76 x 80 x 9
Construction
Quilt Layers:
Stretch Knit Ticking
1" 1.8lb High Density Foam
Natural Rayon Fire Barrier
Comfort Layers:
2" Talalay Latex
Support System:
6" Talalay Latex Core
2" 1.8lb High Resilient Foam
The Snowmass is usually one of the better latex values in the areas it is available. It has an inch of 1.8 lb polyfoam in the upper layer (which is within the guideline of using no more than around an inch or so of polyfoam over latex) and the 2" stabilization layer on the bottom is not an issue either. In between it has 8" of blended Talalay latex which is a high quality material. there are no obvious weak links in the mattress. Of course the quality and value of a mattress doesn’t necessarily mean that it is suitable for your needs and preferences but if you have tested it for PPP (Pressure relief, Posture and alignment, and Personal preferences) … then it would normally be among the better value purchases available in most areas.
Just as a point of reference as well … 1.8 lb polyfoam is actually HD polyfoam not HR.
A forum search on Snowmass (you can just click this) will bring up many more references to it.
Thank you very much for the quick reply. So your saying that the bottom 2in 1.8 lb support layer is actually HD? If so, you gotta love false advertisement. What is the best place to search for mattress specs? I have a few others that we liked and I cannot find sqat on them. We are also going to try and go by the few local mattress manufactures in Dallas today if they are open.
Yes … foam has to be at least 2.5 lbs/ft3, have a compression modulus of 2.4, and a resilience (ball rebound) of 60% to be classified as HR. Many people call a foam HR as a comparative marketing sense meaning it has a higher resilience than other lower resilience conventional foams.
The specs of a mattress should come from either a retailer or the manufacturer of the mattress. The merchant selling the mattress should be the one providing them to you and its certainly not the consumers job to track this information down. Other than that if you want to invest the time and energy … and usually hit dead ends … then internet searching or calling other retailers until you find one that knows (if any of them know at all) is really your only option. If you are talking about a major brand … many of these won’t tell you at all in many cases and you would be wasting your time even making the effort.