I have been so happy to find this forum. Between MattressUnderground and SleepLikeTheDead, I feel like I’m a lot more of an informed buyer.
My fiancee and I have been sleeping on a queen memory foam mattress for the last year. We got it from Sleepy’s (not recommended). The mattress is okay, but the frame and foundation both need replaced. When we moved, the movers reassembled the bed incorrectly and now it shakes like an earthquake with every small movement. The foundation collapsed fairly quickly due to the weight of the memory foam mattress. In any case, we both feel like we need more room. So we decided to get a king this year and move the queen into the guest bedroom. The mattress we selected last year was a Plush Sealy Coolsense. I don’t find it particularly cool, but otherwise we’re both very happy with a soft memory foam mattress.
We went about it a little bit backwards this time. We got the bed first. We were browsing the local mall aimlessly and noticed a furniture store was going out of business and selling off all its inventory. We got a king platform bed for $350. It’s a style we like and seems very sturdy. I didn’t realize at the time that the slats weren’t all screwed in, because in the store the bed had a mattress on it, so it was hard to tell. When it arrived, it turned out the slats are curved upward a little and flatten due to pressure. The slats are 2 inches each and 3 1/8 inch apart. There are 15 slats rowise between the headboard and footboard. There are two lengthwise support beams with six total feet supporting the weight in the middle in addition to the four corner posts. I took pictures and uploaded them (temporarily):
Front View
and
Side View
If those images are unavailable, the bed looks closest this one on Overstock but with three lengthwise support beams instead of two because it’s a king instead of a queen.
First question: Do you think this platform bed will support a king size memory foam mattress? All the ones I am thinking of are around 12-13 inches thick.
Next, my mattress search: I am looking for a memory foam mattress of high quality but that has a soft comfort layer. I’m a very hot sleeper, so something with gel in the top layers (SleepLikeTheDead suggests no less than 2 inches of gel infused memory foam to reduce hot sleeping). We are both majority side sleepers, and we both love soft-feeling mattresses. I am also a very light sleeper and would like to stick with memory foam for the movement isolation despite its sleeping hot tendencies. We both loved the Tempurpedic Cloud Luxe by “sinking in” and support but were turned off by the price. Our price point is about $2,000.
I started looking at Sears because my fiancee has a credit card there and we would be able to purchase one more easily. I originally was certain I wanted an iComfort Savant. It has great reviews, and the iComfort line is being closed out so there are some great sales. I would probably also like Renewal Refined or Wellbeing Refined, but I haven’t been able to test those out, and the latter goes outside of my price range even with closeout sales. We’ve been to Sears 3 times but haven’t selected anything. The salesman there suggested the Comforpedic Nourishing Comfort instead because it has newer technology. He says it has the same comfort layers as the Beautyrest Black series. There aren’t many reviews because it’s relatively new. He said he gets a lot more people returning the Savant than the Nourishing Comfort. I didn’t buy it because it only has 1 inch of gel-infused memory foam instead of the 2 inches that would really help my sleeping hot problem. The comforpedic models that are soft with 2 inches of gel-infused memory foam are well above our price point.
Our next steps are to try out local retailers. We live in Alexandria, VA, so we are subject to the DC metro area post here. Some of those places are still a long haul, so we were going to try The Healthy Back Store, American Foam Center, one of the Winndom retailers, and maybe Creative Classics. I am going to have to call American Foam Center to see if they do gel-infused foam or if they have any suggestions for sleeping hot.
Do you have any confidence these places will have the kind of mattress I described? Anything to add to the list? I’d prefer not to drive more than 45 minutes, and distance and time are non-linearly related here due to traffic.
Lastly, a few of the suggestions for online retailers suggested by MattressUnderground caught my attention. I’d say I am the most enamored by Select Foam’s Plush - Cirrus Luxe-ES 13". It is very slightly over my price point but seems like a Cloud Luxe, which I have gotten to try out in the store, although it’s sad I can’t actually see a Select Foam mattress in a store. I am also interested in DreamFoam Ultimate Dreams 13", but it’s probably not as soft as I’d like.
Any other considerations you think should be added to the list before I down-select?
Thank you in advance!