Marshall inner spring double sided mattress

[phoenix]

Hi KevinM,

There is more about the 3 most important parts of the “value” of a mattress purchase in post #13 here which can help you make more meaningful quality/value comparisons between mattresses in terms of suitability (how well you will sleep), durability (how long you will sleep well), and the overall value of a mattress compared to your other finalists based on suitability, durability, and all the other parts of your personal value equation that are most important to you (including the price of course and the options you have available after a purchase if your choice doesn’t turn out as well as you hoped for).

[quote]I got a brochure from "the Bay’ which sells them locally and the model I’m looking at, the ‘rest assured tapestry’ queen sized mattress has the following specs:

2 sided pillow top flip, 12.5" height

Comfort Layers/Finish:
Outer
-1.5" 18oz/sq yd - new zealand wool
-2 layers 1.25" soft reverse- convolute soy foam (1.3lbs)
Inner
-1" premium medium firm soy foam (1.8lbs density)
-0.4" densified felt posture pad

Support Layer:
-Honeycomb nested 15.5guage high tensile steel inner pocket springs
-edge around perimeter: parallel outer rows forming a fimer seating edge made from high tensile 14.5 gauge steel pocket springs supported by a flexible 6 gauge border wire

I’m very curious to see your thoughts on this construction and how it would hold up over time considering it can be flipped and rotated. It sells for about $2100Cdn (mattress only) when on sale.[/quote]

Thanks for providing the density specs of the mattress.

All the materials and components are good quality materials except for this one …

-2 layers 1.25" soft reverse- convolute soy foam (1.3lbs)

… which would give you 2.5" of convoluted polyfoam on each side of the mattress that is lower density than I would suggest in the durability guidelines here even for a two sided mattress (and the convoluted layers would also be less durable than a solid layer of the same material … see post #2 here) which means that they would be a weak link that could compromise the durability and useful life of the mattress.

For comparison sake, the big brand name closest equivalent for feel/comfort in the showroom I could find was a Simmons Beautyrest Platinum Firm which is advertived in the queen to have 1050 independently responding NON-FLIP Pocket Coil and an extra layer of 1000 MicroCoils below a layer of Diamond™ Infused AirCool; Memory Foam, This mattress when on sale is about $1000cdn (mattress only)

All the major brands such as Sealy/Stearns & Foster, Simmons, and Serta all tend to use lower quality and less durable materials in their mattresses than most of their smaller competitors that will tend to soften or break down prematurely relative to the price you pay which is why I would generally suggest avoiding all of them completely (along with the retailers that focus on them as well) regardless of how they may feel in a showroom along with any mattress where you aren’t able to find out the type and quality/durability of the materials inside it (see the guidelines here along with post #3 here and post #12 here and post #404 here).

I would need to know the density of the foam layers in the mattress to make any specific comments but the Simmons Platinum mattresses use some very low quality/density polyfoam and memory foam layers that would be even less durable than the Marshall mattress and I would completely avoid this mattress as well.

Needless to say … I would look for other alternatives than either of the mattresses you mentioned because I don’t think that either of them are worth the price you would be paying.

Phoenix