We’ve had a waterbed for a great number of years, him 30+ years, myself since I’ve known him, plus a number of years before. Recently, due to unforeseen circumstances (bed heater caught fire, burned through mattress), we needed a new bed. He still loves the waterbed, as it was never too hot or cold, only as hard or soft as the water and bodies on the bed, in other words, just right. I, however, have never gotten a good nights sleep on it in; the support just wasn’t right for me. So, after I did some research, I opted to look more into a latex mattress, for a number of reasons.
First, it does not have coils. I figured that for someone going from water to coils might just be too much, and his preference was no coils.
Second, in our motorhome, we tried memory foam, and with the exception of it being a sauna (water included) to sleep on, it was quite comfortable, conforming to each individually.
Third, he sleeps hot.
I originally thought of trying to find a cooler memory foam, but after extensive research, both here and just general google searches, was unable to find any significant reduction of heat. But a few places mentioned latex foam as the coolest of all foam beds. It was mentioned that perhaps only 10% at most would find a latex mattress too hot, and often then it was as simple to rectify as putting a thin cooling topper on the mattress.
Thus far, each night has been exceptionally hot in the bed, even to myself who sleeps cold. This is with nights that ranged from 27.3F to 68F, so not very hot nights. The 27.3F night, the room did not exceed 62F at any time, and was often colder.
So far, we’ve had no such luck in cooling the bed. We have tried the just mattress itself under cotton sheets. We tried under satin sheets. We then put a 2" down alternative mattress topper on it under cotton sheets (over a ; that made it a lot more comfortable, but did nothing for the heat. We even got a 2.5" mattress topper that advertises specifically cooling the bed significantly. We then put the cooling topper on top of the down alternative topper and removed any protective covers from the mattress (save the actual mattress covering itself), under cotton sheets. With these three items, you name it, we’ve tried it. This has all been to no avail. We do not run the A/C at night, ever.
We cannot return this mattress. Even if we could, we have no idea what else we would exchange it for. He has stated that he is over waterbeds, but is still not interested in a coil bed.
How do we cool this bed?!? It is unbearable, and nobody can sleep. Please help.
Thank you.
