Need help with Canadian Retailers

[phoenix]

Hi Mattress,

I find idealmattress too expensive for me, $3500-$3700 for a Talalay 10 inch mattress, I also found out their warranty is pro-rated.

I don’t know what size you are looking at or what is included in the purchase but this would be in a fairly high budget range for a 10" Talalay latex mattress.

[quote]I called some others and I found two from your list that have great values, but they both said that they use glue on the different layers of latex, is that something that is common, does the glue now make it not such a great value, is the glue going to be harmful for me regardless of my allergies.

Also, why do other places like Dormio not glue their latex mattresses, are the glued mattress poor quality even though the retailer said its 100 percent natural.[/quote]

You can see my thoughts about glued vs loose layers (in a zip cover) in post #2 here and post #15 here. If the glue is water based and not solvent based then it would be fine for most people and glue is certainly not an indication of a poor quality mattress.

Secondly, a second factory direct location gave great value , again from your list, but when I asked how they keep the layers of latex together, he said they use a light stapler, again should I avoid this mattress because the latex layers are stapled.

This would depend on what they mean by “stapling” and what layers are stapled to which other layers or components. Some innerspring mattresses for example use a type of stapling called “hog rings” to attach the upper layers to the innerspring and other mattresses use a type of staple that spreads out or splays into the foam on the sides to attach different materials or components such as a pillow top to the rest of the mattress so the layers and components don’t shift in use so these would both be preferable than not attaching some materials or components to the rest of the mattress.

Lastly, one of the factory guys on your list advised me that no latex mattress is ever 100 percent chemical free , he advised the best that could be offered is 70 percent pure and 30 percent chemical, is that true

It’s partly true and partly misinformation. It’s true that latex foam doesn’t only contain latex (see post #7 here) so even a latex core that was “100% natural latex” would have other substances that were necessary to make the foam but all the latex would be natural rather than synthetic. On the other hand … there are many versions of latex where the natural rubber content of the final core is 95% or higher.

is that true, can places like Dormio provided 100 percent chemical free latex mattresses or am I being fed a line, this factory direct manager is offering great value for the latex mattress I am interested in, 10 inches of talalay.

No latex … even organic latex … is 100% chemical free (you can read about the organic certifications for latex here) but all the latex you are likely to encounter would have been certified by either Oeko-Tex or Eco-Institute so it would be “safe” by any reasonable standards. There is more about the different types and blends of latex in post #6 here. It would be more accurate to say that it was free of any harmful chemicals or substances but there are some chemicals in every foam material although there is a great deal less of them in 100% natural latex than other foam materials (unless you consider the “chemicals” that are in the latex itself that the tree produces or that are in any natural material).

“Chemicals” are not the issue since almost everything is a chemical (even water). The real issue is whether any chemicals are harmful.

Hope this helps

Phoenix