My wife and I are trying to figure out our next mattress purchase. We have very different mattress preferences. She is a back sleeper and prefers firm. I am a side sleeper and prefer soft. I thought I wanted a sleep number until I read reviews. Ultimately I want to accomplish a few things with our new mattress. Allow her to have firm and me to have soft. I also want to be able to have an adjustable base and lift and lower our heads independently. I don’t love the idea of a split king with a gap in the middle. I guess in a perfect world I would be able to get a split top that allows us to have different firmness but no gap in the middle. Not super sensitive to price. Recommendations? Thanks!
HI Aggiecaleb and welcome to the forums and thanks for reaching out on this! You might want to consider the 10" organic latex mattress from Sleep EZ - https://sleepez.com/product/organic-latex-mattress/
The organic and natural mattresses (the Select Sleep mattresses) are our flagship products. They’re fully customizable, meaning you can order the mattress to be as soft or as firm as you’d like. They’re also fully adjustable, meaning you can change the softness, firmness, back support, pressure relief, etc. AFTER you get the mattress in your home. To be more specific, the 10” is our most popular, and these mattresses normally go out with three 3" layers of different firmnesses - normally the softest layer (or the cushion & contour layer) is on top and the supportive layers are on the bottom. This helps ensure our customers get the right balance of contour for their hips and shoulders but also support for their lower back. If you start with a certain setup and find that it’s too soft, you can unzip the cover and rearrange the layers to get a firmer feel out of the mattress, or you can exchange a layer to make it softer. Additionally, latex mattresses typically last 20 years. If, in 5 or 10 or 15 years you decide you want a softer or firmer mattress you would only have to buy a new layer instead of an entirely new mattress. Lastly, if the mattress starts to break down in 15 – 20 years, it’s normally the top layer that breaks down first, and at that point you can likely just buy a new top layer of latex instead of a whole new mattress and get an additional 8-10 years out of the mattress.
Furthermore, queen, king, and cal king mattresses are available with what we call “split layers,” which means you can have us cut the layers down the middle (from head to foot) so that you can have a different feel / firmness on your side versus your partner’s side, and you can adjust each side independently over the 20 year lifetime of the mattress. About 95% of our mattresses go out with all split layers from top to bottom, and we get zero complaints on being able to feel the split and we get zero complaints about the layers shifting or anything like that, even if you sleep right on the middle of the mattress. If you order 2 twin XL mattresses, there will be a gap at the top of the mattress, there’s really no good way around that.
If you’re wondering how to pick the layers for this mattress, you can go to the natural or organic mattress page, click the green button that says “Build Your Mattress Now,” then click the gray oval that says “Personalized,” and you’ll be able to enter your information. The website will then make a personalized recommendation based on your information (the layers in the mattress diagram will reflect the recommendation after you click the “Apply” button. Please note that our initial recommendations have a 90% success rate (we only have a 10% layer exchange rate) so there’s a 90% chance that the recommendation turns out to be your perfect setup!
Although it’s not likely that you’ll need to rearrange layers or exchange layers, you certainly have the option to adjust the mattress according to you and your partner’s specific needs and preferences, both in the short-term and long-term. We have a 90 day exchange and return period, so you can exchange a layer within the first 90 days for a flat-rate $30 fee for the first exchange and the full cost of shipping for any subsequent exchanges. We will ship your layers first, and we will ship them with extra plastic that you can use to package your current layers, and we will ship it with a pre-paid Fed Ex return label. Also, if you will please call us when you are ready to ship your layers back we will schedule a free Fed Ex pick up for you. You will have 30 days after its arrival to return a layer of your choosing, so you’ll have plenty of time to try a few different combinations with the layers you have and the layer we will be sending you so that you can get your comfort and support levels just right.
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The way these layers are being split will allow you to use split-head sheets with a split-head adjustable bed frame. DreamFit, which offers a variety of split-head sheet sets, is a great option for this type of setup. These sheets stay securely in place on the bed and don’t come off until you’re ready to remove them. While there may be other options available, DreamFit seems to specialize in this category.
Good luck with your project — you’re in good hands here at TMU.
Maverick
Thanks for the info. I think the only problem with this option is that there is not a split top king. Where the heads can move independently but there is no gap in the body of the mattress.
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Understandably, it is not a conventional split top king like this one, but I can assure you as I am sure @Sleep_EZ would, when they split the internal mattress, you will not notice the split all the way down the center when on a splithead king adjustable base.
I purchased my MiL and internal split queen mattress from DLX, they do not split the entire mattress as @Sleep_EZ is suggesting, but they do split the comfort layer. You would never know the internal comfort layer is split. I thing you would have a tough time with the @Sleep_EZ , particularly with the way DreamFit sheets fit so snug and keep things all together.
Hopefully @Sleep_EZ will reaffirm my observations and experience with the DLX, although not exactly the same, but similar concept of splitting the mattress.
I can definitely see your point if it were twin xl bases pushed together, or twin xl mattresses on a split head base.
These guys are professionals, they have been around the block a few times, as I am quite certain, your request is not as unusual as you might think.
Maverick
Yes that’s about the size of it. Sorry we couldn’t do the split head covers, but another option would be to get just the layers from our topper pages and course a custom cover from another company, although I don’t have any recommendations in that regard, sorry about that!