Well I guess it’s not that I’m thinking of an online purchase…it’s really that I have no choice. There simply is nowhere to buy a natural mattress here other than one store that sells Sleeptek and I can’t try before buying anyway.
I had already looked at the list you provided and came to these conclusions:
Doesn’t provide any pricing or other info on what their natural mattresses are made of or can include, other than they make them 'custom".
Looked promising, but again, didn’t state prices or shipping and said their latext mattresses had a cotton cover. Nothing about wool. So it left me wondering what they were using for flame retardants which wasn’t stated in an obvious location.
Has nothing listed under their latex category?
All the latex mattresses seemed to contain bio foam as well? I found their web site wasn’t very clear and it was hard to tell which were latex without clicking on each and every mattress and reading what it was made of (no latex section? weird). Maybe bio foam doesn’t matter to me if it’s below the latex, but I found $900 minimum for latex/bio foam and the Edsele is comparable priced yet no bio foam.
These guys don’t seem to carry anything natural unless I missed something (only memory foam, regular foam and gel?)
Already mentioned that their cheapest natural, double sized bed is $2200. Which it may be worth, just out of budget at this time for kids 6 and under.
I started checking the US web sites listed in that post but duty and fees were unknown and some didn’t state shipping, etc. so no matter how cheap something looked, I’m guessing it will end up close to or more than buying something directly from Canada anyway.
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Sleeptek certainly uses good quality materials but they are not the best value in an apples to apples comparison with other choices you have that use the same or very similar materials.
[/quote]Okay. Sleeptek’s pricing doesn’t seem to be any better or any worse than the other natural brands. They are pretty much priced the same in Canada unless you find one using part memory foam or bio foam in addition to the latex.
I’m open to other options, but it seems that from what I’ve found, any truly natural mattress in a double size is a minimum $2200. And if that’s out of my budget, I’m stuck with the Edsele or with the kids SleepTek.
I’d be totally happy to be missing something though and be able to get a quality, natural, double sized mattress for less than $2200 other than the Edsele or kids Sleeptek.