Omaha Bedding Company's Warren Firm mattress

[phoenix]

Hi hcanton,

After thinking about it, I do have a concern about the Warren Mattress Firm, that maybe or maybe not, is justified. We first tried this mattress out at the very beginning of our mattress search, before I’d done any research, when NFM drew us in with it’s Labor Day sale flyers. We liked it, but set it aside after having read this website, since the density specs for all layers were not easily available and I had other stuff on my plate where I didn’t have time to think about mattresses. So, since a bunch of time had passed since we’d tried it, and this past weekend we had some time, I said, what the heck, let’s try it again, and if we still like it, I will see if I can find out the foam densities. Which obviously, I did, and posted. But what I was just thinking about was how the right side of the bed this past weekend was substantially more comfortable to me (firmer), when my husband and I switched sides, than the left side. This is relevant in that this bed was very near to a wall on the right side, meaning that most people who have tried the bed would mostly have been laying on the easily accessible left side, so the left side would be more broken in. And I didn’t like that side nearly as much. So I’m wondering if that might be an indicator of, if we purchased it, how the bed will feel a few months down the road. Thoughts?

There could be two reasons I can think of for your experience with one side being softer than the other.

The first is that there will be a break in period for any new mattress or sleeping system as the mattress loses any of it’s “false firmness” and the cover stretches and loosens a little and the materials in the mattress settle (see post #3 here) so it’s certainly possible that one side could feel firmer than the other if it has been broken in more than the other.

The mattress also contains 3" of memory foam which will soften to some degree with heat, humidity, and continuous pressure so it’s also possible that the memory foam on the side that your husband was testing had softened more under his greater weight (or possibly body heat) than the side you were testing so it felt softer when you switched sides. In general it can be a good idea to spend a little longer on a mattress that contains thicker layers of memory foam so that the memory foam has a chance to soften with heat and pressure so that what you “feel” will be more representative of how it will feel when you sleep on it over longer periods of time.

Phoenix