Review of our new latex bed

[phoenix]

Hi gtwflorida,

Thanks for taking the time to share such detailed feedback about your mattress and your “tweaking” … I appreciate it

Phoenix had stated here that all natural talalay should have an N designation, so I called APM back to confirm that this was, in fact, all natural and not synthetic. Greg assured me that it was all natural, and he gave me some explanation that the N designation is used by the manufacturers but not so much by retailers. He seemed to indicate that customers were more familiar with ILD numbers, so that’s how they describe them.

This is often true because both Latex International and Radium test the ILD of their latex in multiple places but use different designations to describe the “average” ILD rating. For example you can see an example of a label for a Latex International allnaturallabelherewhichhasanaveragehttps://uploads.mattressunderground.com/outside/0https://uploads.mattressunderground.com/outside/1https://uploads.mattressunderground.com/outside/2https://uploads.mattressunderground.com/outside/3https://uploads.mattressunderground.com/outside/4https://uploads.mattressunderground.com/outside/5https://uploads.mattressunderground.com/outside/6https://uploads.mattressunderground.com/outside/7https://uploads.mattressunderground.com/outside/8https://uploads.mattressunderground.com/outside/924030/LIlabel1.jpg]all0maybealittlemoreorahttps://uploads.mattressunderground.com/outside/0https://uploads.mattressunderground.com/outside/1https://uploads.mattressunderground.com/outside/2https://uploads.mattressunderground.com/outside/3https://uploads.mattressunderground.com/outside/4https://uploads.mattressunderground.com/outside/5https://uploads.mattressunderground.com/outside/6https://uploads.mattressunderground.com/outside/7https://uploads.mattressunderground.com/outside/8https://uploads.mattressunderground.com/outside/9a"nominal"ILDtosaveconfusion.

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You can also see the “target” ILD’s for Radium’s blended (the “W” ratings) and their 100% natural (also an “N” series) and the range of ILD’s that could be in both in thisimage.(Note:thesearenewspecsashttps://uploads.mattressunderground.com/outside/0https://uploads.mattressunderground.com/outside/1https://uploads.mattressunderground.com/outside/2https://uploads.mattressunderground.com/outside/3https://uploads.mattressunderground.com/outside/4https://uploads.mattressunderground.com/outside/5https://uploads.mattressunderground.com/outside/6https://uploads.mattressunderground.com/outside/7https://uploads.mattressunderground.com/outside/8https://uploads.mattressunderground.com/outside/966/NewRadiumILD1_2014-04-17.gif]this0ratingsnot"W")

I felt like I was on the right track. I thought of the old CS mattress that I was able to inflate a little extra to make too soft just right, and I thought that if I could find some kind of air pillow that I could inflate just a little to get it just right, that might be the answer. I searched online and couldn’t find quite what I was looking for.

Post #4 here has links to a couple of products that may be similar to what you were looking for (one of which is air and has some reviews and feedback here).

Phoenix, thank you for this website. I’ve learned so much and would have been flying blind without all that I’ve read here. I hope that my review and experience can provide some help and inspiration to others. Any other tweaking ideas others might have would be great to hear as well.

“Thank you back” for sharing all your experiences. Since you are experimenting with some “zoning” ideas post #11 here may also have some useful information that might be helpful and this thread also has more feedback about some of the zoning ideas that dn (one of the more knowledgeable forum members) is experimenting with.

Phoenix