Latex in CT

Hi shawnprooney,

There are a few steps that you can take that dramatically increase the odds you will make the best possible choices when you are buying a mattress.

The first of these is finding better outlets which can be even more important than choosing a mattress. No matter how good the quality or value of a mattress … if it doesn’t fit your needs and preferences then it has no value to you.

The best suggestions I can make is to first do a little reading to help you avoid the most common traps and pitfalls of mattress shopping. This article will help you with this. Next … I would read this article which will give you a sense of what to look for when choosing the outlet you are buying from. Finding outlets that have the knowledge and ability to tell you what is in their mattresses and also to help educate you in how to make the choices of materials (and latex is a great choice), layering, and design that best fits your needs for pressure relief and alignment and your preferences in feel and subjective choices and tradeoffs. This can be an even more important first step than choosing a mattress without really knowing how to make your best choices.

Reading the overviews in the mattresses section can also give you some basic information that will help you ask better questions and know when you are dealing with someone who is “mattress people” or someone who is more about marketing and selling you a mattress that helps their profit margin more than it helps you sleep.

In general the best choices are factory direct manufacturers or smaller “sleep shop” types of outlets that have close relationships with smaller independent or local manufacturers. If you are buying online … then you will be dealing with “averages” because you won’t have the ability to test the mattress you are considering and you will be subject to the knowledge and skill of the person you are dealing with. Local testing in these cases in combination with working with someone who knows how to “translate” your height/weight/body shape, sleeping positions, personal preferences, and the local testing you have done into the best choice of mattress that they make or sell can be very important.

Gold Bond is an old independent manufacturer that makes some high quality mattresses with good value (including the one you linked to) but knowing whether a particular mattress is suitable for you is more important than just the quality/value of a mattress.

There are some great choices in Connecticut and post #2 and 4 here (depending on where you are in Connecticut) would be a good place to start. A search on “Connecticut” will also bring up other threads with feedback about some of these options from other forum members. One of our members … “nissanman” has also been doing some research in Connecticut and has posted some great feedback and a search on his posts would also be valuable. matpro171 has also provided some good feedback.

This should give you lots of great options and best of all the kind of guidance and help that will lead to making your best choices. the more the people who are helping you know … the less you have to know :slight_smile:

Phoenix