First of all I would like to thank the moderator and other posters, I have learned so much after becoming aware of this site. I am zeroing in on purchase of a Brooklyn Bedding Memory Foam mattress mainly due to what I have learned here. I did have a question though as to whether it is best to initially select a firmness that is perhaps a touch more than you would ideally choose, but still comfortable, under the belief that as the mattress ages if will tend to get softer and sag more? Or is making the initial firmness selection based on that a fallacy? Thanks again.
Hi owensr,
Their memory foam mattresses don’t have a firmness selection … just their latex which comes in a wide range of ILD’s. You can exchange the memory foam for firm or soft latex though you choose to.
In theory perhaps but there would be no way for you to know for sure which one was “just a touch” firmer. It would be very difficult to fine tune comfort to that degree with a mattress that you hadn’t tried yet in person because that fine a degree of selection would depend on you being very familiar with the subtle differences of slightly softer and firmer in a particular mattress. Differences that fine wouldn’t really make any difference in durability and I doubt that you would be able to predict it to that degree of accuracy when you have never tried it anyway.
If you are choosing the memory foam it won’t matter because there’s just one choice but if you go with latex I would target your current ideal (latex softens less than other foams) but if you are undecided about what to choose between two firmness levels in terms of comfort/pressure relief then I would tend to go with the one that was slightly firmer because it’s “safer” in terms of alignment not because of any meaningful difference in durability. You can always make a mattress that is a little too firm softer but it’s much more difficult to make a mattress that is too soft any firmer.
Phoenix