Memory Foam in Minneapolis Area

[phoenix]

Hi Tracy,

I’m in upstate NY, which is pretty far from that Vancouver manufacturer.

I was using the mattress as an example of a type of layering (a thinner layer of memory foam and another highly resilient material) not as a suggested place to purchase (unless someone happened to be local of course). The idea was to give you a sense of why you may like the Tempur weightless and to help identify other similar mattresses you may like.

Do you think there’s any chance this could be somewhat similar? www.amazon.com/LinenSpa-Cashmere-Ventila...cm_cr_pr_product_top The price range is a lot more appealing to me than the first bed you posted, and I’m in upstate NY, which is pretty far from that Vancouver manufacturer.

I don’t think so no. It has 5" of memory foam (the Tempur weightless has 2") and the majority of it is very low quality (3 lb memory foam). in addition to this … you can see the criteria I use for memory foam mattresses in post #10 here and the LinenSpa certainly doesn’t meet them. I would not buy uncertified Chinese memory foam and i wouldn’t buy any mattress that had 3" of 3 lb memory foam.

the top layer of this one is a 5.3lb foam with perforations that kinda looks like the Carpenters Avena you linked above. I did like the tempur pedic with the float layer on top a little better of the two.

This top layer is memory foam which is a very low resiliency material (slow response) and would be nothing like the material in the Tempur Weightless.

[quote]www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Dreams-Eurotop-L...words=latex+mattress

Do you think if I tell customer service that the bed I liked best in the store was the tempurpedic weightless select he would be able to help me choose the right latex layer? I like the idea of unzipping it and changing or adding a layer. [/quote]

They would be more of an apples to oranges comparisons. The Ultimate Dreams has a latex comfort layer (the one that is replaceable) which is a highly resilient material (and much more durable than polyfoam) but there is no memory foam underneath it so the feel would be different. It is a very good quality/value mattress and as you say has great flexibility. Their choices are based on a softness scale which is not matched to any other mattress (and softness itself is subjective) but if your experience on the weightless or other mattresses indicates that you like “softer than average” or “firmer than average” or “average softness” mattresses, then this could be helpful for them to adjust up or down from what most people consider average even though the materials and mattresses themselves would be different.

There may be some options that are local to you that may have some good quality/value mattresses that may be worth considering as well or at least where you could test the “feel” of latex. If you let me know where you live in upstate NY (city or zip) I’d be happy to let you know of any I’m aware of.

Phoenix