Hi Phoenix
You helped identify for us the only local mattress manufacturer in Birmingham, “Royal Bedding” on Pelham Parkway and we checked it out. The proprietor was not there but the salesman was extremely straightforward (ie about 10x more reassuring than nearly everyone we have met to date) and 75% knowledgeable (not entirely, which is part of what I’m going to ask about).
Broadly speaking we liked their stuff better than the fare at the local department store (Simmons Beautyrest Black) and the Royal Bedding’s Memory Foam product (Sleep Harmony, which they distribute, ie don’t make in house) certainly costed less than Tempurpedic.
A couple questions, since the Latex and Memory Foam drew our interest. I’ll mention that I’m a side sleeper (155") with my typical problem being (a) my hip dips in too deeply and makes my back feel excessively torqued right at the place where the top of my butt meets the bottom of my back and (b) the side of my shoulder and the hip prominence get sore unless there’s a pretty thick “comfort layer”. In our current crappy indented Simmons I literally slide in thin and soft pillows to make up for the mattress defects. Every new mattress is a bit better on both scores, but many still are modestly uncomfortable after 10 minutes due to the torque on my back.
I liked the latex best but I’m going to ask about the 2 runners-up first.
In general the memory foam prevented my butt from sinking in too much.
One memory foam by Sleep Harmony was called Bliss (1499 Queen) with 6" ventilated memory foam (made out of 2 3" layers) sitting on top of 6" high density memory foam.
? Does the ventilation actually achieve a cooler mattress compared to the traditional Mem Foams that sleep hot? Seemed like it did, by the way. Price was wayyyyy lower than Tempurpedic ($1499 for Queen Bliss). Is this basically as good as the pricier T-pedic? I thought it was perhaps a bit too hard but pretty good.
Another one was called Sleep Harmony Revitalize with pillowtop. It was more comfortable but had much more complicated construction with less memory foam and my main question is whether you think it would hold up as well. From top to bottom: The Pillowtop itself was 1.5" “comfort foam” + 1" of 4-pound ventilated memory foam. Then the rest of it was 2’ of 4-pound memory foam, them 1.5" of synthetic latex then 8" of “high density base foam”. Sounds like a lot of polyfoam, right? I have no idea whether it’s quality is good or bad or what to ask even. Pricing was $1450.
The main attraction, and probably our favorite was the softer version of Royal Bedding’s home-constructed double-sided flippable latex mattress, the softer version which was $2199 queen. A few questions on that:
What do you think of Latexco latex? I guess this is their synthetic one (he handed me some printouts but they did not make it clear). The salesman had himself been reviewing some printouts off the internet about the 7-zone Latexco core (the “add file” button seems not to be working so I can’t show you but it is described here ).
Latexco is a synthetic product and not Talalay, and not Dupont. What do you think of it?
He could not tell me the ILD, but this is the construction: There is 12" total with 6" of “core” latex and 3" of some softer Latex on each side, and I believe these are all different types of Latexco latex product.
Given my sidesleeping style, do you think the 6 inch core and 3 inches comfort layer is likely to work out decently? I should mention that while I might even nudge to something a tad softer, my wife really tends toward something a tad firmer so I can’t go much further…
We don’t have any other local manufacturers here in Birmingham, so I’m leaning toward this.
thanks for looking at this and for passing along the name of Royal Bedding.