Saatva mattress review and analysis

[phoenix]

Hi MBMoe101,

I switched your post to a new topic with a different title since your questions weren’t related to the original topic.

Apparently Austin Mattress (austinmattress.net) is going out of business. This may help the value proposition but could also mean limited supply at this point. Also, I would fear they would try to push anything they had left vs. sincerely trying to find the right match for me and my wife. Thoughts?

There is some good information about the most important parts of the “value” of a mattress purchase in post #13 here which can help you make more meaningful quality/value comparisons between mattresses in terms of suitability (how well you will sleep), durability (how long you will sleep well), and the overall value of a mattress compared to your other finalists (based on all the parts of your personal value equation that are most important to you).

As long as you follow all the appropriate guidelines for choosing a mattress and test a mattress carefully for PPP (Posture and alignment, Pressure relief, and your Personal preferences) and you find out all the specifics of the materials and components inside a mattress to make sure there aren’t any lower quality materials or weak links in the mattress and you make good value comparisons with your other finalists it would be difficult for any store to “push” one of the members here into making an unsuitable choice.

Even after reading a lot of the guidance on your mattress forum, I’m still unsure on what type of mattress will work best for us. My wife and I were set on an inner spring mattress but that is mostly due to familiarity with that type. My wife has had previous experience with a Tempurpedic and was not a fan. So she is pretty biased against anything memory foam like. I’m intrigued by latex and it appears Austin Mattress still has a wide selection of them. Given my wife is “anti” Tempurpedic, by association, do you think she would be “anti” latex?

Any mattress that is a good match for you in terms of PPP and that also uses good quality and durable versions of the materials and components inside it so there aren’t any weak links in a mattress can make a suitable choice. In other words … the choice between different combinations of materials and components or different types of mattresses is a preference and/or a budget choice and not a “better worse” choice (see this article). Different people can have very different preferences about the type and combinations of different materials or mattresses that they prefer and there is no better or worse or right or wrong when it comes to preferences. The only way to really know which types of mattresses that you prefer is based on your own personal experience.

Latex is a very different material from memory foam so how someone feels about memory foam certainly wouldn’t indicate how they feel about (or on) latex which is a much more resilient (springy) material than memory foam. There is more about how latex compares to memory foam in post #2 here but the most reliable way to know how you feel about any material or type of mattress is based on your own experience.

Below are body types and sleeping styles:

• Wife is 130 lbs and is a complete side sleeper. She generally prefers a softer mattress than myself. I would say her preferred type of mattress is what I would call upscale hotel style which I have seen called “Luxury Firm” in several instances.
• I am 150 lbs and mostly a side sleeper but sleep flat on my back on occasion. I have some back pain and prefer a firmer mattress.

I would keep in mind that the first “rule” of mattress shopping is to always remember that you are the only one that can feel what you feel on a mattress and there are too many unknowns, variables, and personal preferences involved that are unique to each person to use a formula or for anyone to be able to predict or make a specific suggestion or recommendation about which mattress or combination of materials and components or which type of mattress would be the best “match” for you in terms of “comfort” or PPP (Posture and alignment, Pressure relief, and your Personal preferences) or how a mattress will “feel” to you or compare to another mattress based on specs (either yours or a mattress) or “theory at a distance” that can possibly be more accurate than your own careful testing (hopefully using the testing guidelines in step 4 of the tutorial) or your own personal sleeping experience (see mattress firmness/comfort levels in post #2 here).

• We are both “hot” sleepers so anything that sleeps warm would not work

It’s not possible to quantify the sleeping temperature of a mattress for any particular person with any real accuracy because there are so many variables involved outside of just the foam in the comfort layers including the type of mattress protector and the sheets and bedding that you use (which in many cases can have just as significant an effect on temperature as the type of foam in a mattress) and on where you are in the “oven to iceberg” range and because there is no standardized testing for temperature regulation with different combinations of materials. In other words some people can sleep hot on a mattress that most people would be fine with. Having said that … latex in general is the most breathable and “temperature neutral” of all the different types of foam materials (latex foam, polyfoam, and memory foam ) so it would be unusual that someone would sleep hot on a mattress that used latex comfort layers.

There is also more about the many variables that can affect the sleeping temperature of a mattress or sleeping system in post #2 here that can help you choose the types and combinations of materials and components that are most likely to keep you in a comfortable temperature range.

Given all that, is there any general recommendations on types so we can narrow our search some. If you think latex is a good fit, do you have any opinions on the value of the latex mattresses from Austin Mattress?
www.austinmattress.net/#!latex-mattresses/c6a8

I or some of the more knowledgeable members of the site can certainly help you to narrow down your options, help you focus on better quality/value choices that are available to you either locally or online, help you identify any lower quality materials or weak links in a mattress you may be considering, act as a fact check, answer many of the specific questions you may have along the way that don’t involve what you will “feel” on a mattress, and help with “how” to choose but only you can decide which specific mattress, manufacturer, or combination of materials is “best for you” regardless of whether anyone else has the same criteria or would make the same choice.

My “best” recommendation is to always follow the information and steps in the tutorial post one at a time but when you are making a local purchase in the end they they really come down to …

1. Careful testing to make sure a mattress is a good match for you in terms of PPP (or making sure that you have good options after a purchase if you aren’t sure).

2. Checking to make sure that there are no lower quality materials or weak links in a mattress that would significantly reduce the durability and the useful life of a mattress.

3. Making good “value” comparisons between your finalists based on #1 and #2 and all the other parts of your personal value equation that are most important to you.

Phoenix