Latex Comfort Layer Life Expectency

[phoenix]

Hi AnalogJ,

There’s so much hype on the intertubes. You can often read contradictory statements about the same thing.

You’re certainly right about this … and it’s one of the reasons I started the site so that people would have a way to do some fact checking and bypass all the marketing.

Yes, they do get their latex from Latex International. I’m leaning toward a wool/cotton mattress they have which sits on a separate pocket coil layer over a standard pocket coil base. This all sits on a foundation.

These all sound like good quality materials and components. You can read a bit more about microcoils in this article (assuming that the upper pocket coil layer is a microcoil).

I could add a support layer.

I’m guessing you mean adding a comfort layer (an upper layer such as a topper which provides additional pressure relief). The support layers are the deeper layers of a mattress.

Any suggestions?

The materials you choose are a personal preference so the main suggestions I would have would be to make sure that you are confident that the mattress is a good match for you in terms of PPP, that you know the quality of all the materials in the mattress, and that it’s good value compared to your other finalists based on the parts of your personal value equation that are most important to you. I would also make sure you are comfortable with the options you have after a purchase to fine tune or make changes to the mattress if you haven’t tested a specific mattress in person.

Phoenix