Need new mattress soon.

[phoenix]

Hi drm870,

Unfortunately, I’m doing this kind of wrong, as I tested the mattresses before finding out what their specs were. You wouldn’t happen to know the specs of these models yourself, would you? (I sent an email to Indiana Mattress Company and plan to send one to Long’s Mattress.)

Unfortunately I don’t know the exact specs for any of them. There are some comments about the Silver series in post #17 here but I don’t know if they are still current so it would be safer to find out the current specs from them directly.

My “standard” approach would be to first confirm with the retailer that they have all the specs available (or will find them out) including form densities for a mattress I wanted to test and then if they confirm that they have them or will find them out I would test the mattress.

I also went to Village Mattress to see what they had (since I live in Zionsville and all). I tried the Tempurpedic Rhapsody and the Tempurpedic Weightless there, and noted that I liked the Weightless significantly more. I have to try more mattresses to be sure, but I think that I might like softer memory foam mattresses (as opposed to firmer spring mattresses). Weird…

You can see some comments about the Tempurpedic weightless mattresses in post #2 here and in post #2 here. It sounds like you may prefer a mattress that uses a little less memory foam and has a more resilient material underneath it so it has a little less of the “sinking in” feel of memory foam.

In any case, Niagara Therapy is the last one I’m considering. I noticed that you listed them first. Does that mean that they’re the best option in the area relative to the others? (I’m asking because their Indianapolis location is a fair ways away from where I live.)

No … they aren’t listed in any specific order (although with some of the lists the stores near the top would be the ones that are closest to the zip code that is the starting point for the search).

PS. I am finding that I like the feel of pocket coil mattresses better than other types of innerspring mattresses. I’m not sure if this would help your advisement or not, but I figured I’d add it.

This would be a fairly common preference because pocket coils are more contouring and individually responsive than innersprings that are linked together with helical wire and they also transfer less motion that other types of innersprings (see the article about the different types of innersprings here).

Thanks for taking the time to share your feedback so far and I’m looking forward to finding out what you end up deciding … and of course any specific questions you may have along the way that I can help with.

Phoenix