Thanks for the great site with all the crippling good information. I already know the answer to the questions, nobody can tell me what will work best, but i’m going to ask it anyways!
Me: 6’ 3", 165 lbs. Wife, 5’ 4", 150 lbs, early 40s. Both are roughly 70/30 side and back sleepers. I dont have any major issues outside of snoring when i sleep on my back, the wife has been getting neck pain recently (which she believes is related to the craters in our current coil/pillowtop/1" foam topper mattress). Having some bounce in the mattress is important to us for when the kids are at the grandparents…
Was considering doing a DIY, as it doesn’t look that complicated to put together a very similar bed to commercial options, but for much cheaper. This bed from SleepEZ is pretty similar: https://sleepez.com/products/hybrid-latex-mattress and at 1100$ seems like a pretty good deal. The only small negatives are the latex seems to be dunlop (dont know if that’s really a negative or not, just seems to be the popular opinion here), and really, having firm latex on the bottom of the mattress seems like a waste of resources.
The nuts and bolts of the DIY king size bed:
1 inch lux-r foam from Lux Regular Foam | Foam Factory, Inc. 45$
8" QE Bolsa from 6 Inch Individually Encased Coils | Order 6” Individually Encased Coils - Latex Mattress Factory 380$
Topper options:
3" Talalay from https://www.flexuscomfort.com/latex-mattress-toppers.html $380 (22 ILD)
or:
2" Dunlop medium https://www.flexuscomfort.com/latex-mattress-toppers.html $260 (28 ILD)
2" Talalay soft Talalay Latex Mattress Topper | Order Organic Latex Mattress Topper - Latex Mattress Factory $320 (19 ILD)
We’re both pretty light people and side sleepers, so i know the suggestion is for softer beds. The wife claims to want a medium to medium firm bed, but our current bed has a thick pillow top and a 1" foam pad we placed on it. Would we notice any difference between the 28/19 ILD combo vs the whole 22 ILD slab? If im wrong on the 3" soft, that’s an expensive error. The 22 ILD from flexus does seem to be more of a medium soft versus a soft though. The 2 x 2 gives more options to tweak and swap if Im wrong.
One final question: i see a brentwood bamboo gel cover for 95$ here: Waterproof Mattress Protector With Organic Materials | Brentwood Home
does anyone have any feedback vs a 170$ cotton/poly blend like this Pure Green Natural Latex Mattress Topper | SleepOnLatex
Not against spending more if its worth it, would just like to hear opinions!
Thanks in advance for your expertise!
