I’m looking at getting a new latex mattress, most likely from Arizona Premium Mattress Company or SleepEZ (It’s nice living in Tempe AZ :)) I’m having some trouble, though, figuring out what, if anything, I need to do for frame/etc…
Currently, I’ve got a King sized Sealy inner spring mattress that’s a number of years old. It sits on two twin box springs (bought at the same time as the mattress), which in turn sit on an Ikea metal bed frame that has a rail running down the centerline of the bed, and then a lip around the sides of the frame (basically,Products - IKEA). A few years back, I also went ahead and bought the flat wooden slats (Products - IKEA) that rest on the outer lip of the frame and the center railing (so, slats sit directly on the metal of the frame, box springs sit on slats, mattress sits on box springs), because the bed was starting to sink and divot, and I imagined maybe the box springs needed more underneath.
From reading the foundation guide, I think I shouldn’t keep the box springs with a new latex mattress…? Given that, I could put the mattress directly on the slats (the slats are 4 or 5 inches in width and are ~2.5 “- 3” apart; the approximations are due to my tape measure hiding out with all the socks that disappear in my dryer)… But, since I like the height the box springs give me, I’m probably going to end up getting one of the wood slatted bases and dropping that into my bed frame. Or am I wrong in thinking I should toss the box springs?