Since my last post weāve done a few things with our mattress, still donāt have it quite ārightā but weāre pretty close. You have to try things and give them some time before you know, sometimes.
First, we researched slatted frames and built one to place on top of our platform, for the sake of raising the mattress and adding ventilation. Unfortunately, we hated the feel of it. I could feel the lumpiness of the slats through the mattress and slats necessarily have some give to them, which makes the mattress saggy. We couldnāt stand it, so we just faced the fact it was a fail, and decided weāll just have to take the risk of mold and stay with a solid platform. We keep our bedroom warm & dry so hopefully we wonāt have any issues. So we built a ābunkyā type of platform to add on top of ours in order to lift the mattress up a few inches. Having hated the saggy feeling of the slatted one so much, we built this one really solid, lol. In fact, so solid the mattress became more firm than it originally felt and we ended up putting our 3" memory foam back on it again. That worked pretty well and we thought we had it good but after while we realized it does cause some alignment issues and we need a thinner one.
The foundation a mattress is on makes a huge difference to the feel of a mattress. My feeling about latex is that it follows every contour of what is under it and transfers the feel to the surface.
Costco was advertising a 4lb memory foam that comes in 2, 3 or 4" thickness so I ordered the 2" figuring, if it is no good I can always take it back to Costco. The 3" memory foam we have was from Costco and is really good quality but they do not carry the same manufacturer anymore, this new one is Serta. Well, we got it and it is no way comparable to the first one we bought. Itās so soft, you bottom out right through it. I was looking at the reviews on Costcoās site and noticed other complaints, a few saying that they weighed theirs and measured it and no way is it 4lb. So we did the same with ours and found the same; according to our calculations it is only 2.7lb. So that is going back.
So, now I am back in the market for a quality, dense memory foam topper. I plan to try 2" since our platform is firmer now. Iām looking at a few possibilities, any recommendation which would be better for a person using a heated blanket?
Sleepwarehouse.com has the Sensus 5lb running $285 for Cal King. Foamorder.com has a 5.3lb called āposture senseā which is very reasonable, 2" only $138, but is it Certipure? Myluxurymattress.com has a 5.3lb which would be $265 for a split Cal King, this one is Bayer. The only higher density Iāve found in stock anywhere is a 7.3lb memory foam at Restava, but California King in only 1" is $500- maybe it would be worth it but that is an expensive experiment.
I noticed one description saying the Bayer memory foam is ālivelyā - does that mean it is going to be jiggly like the latex? I donāt want anything like that! I want something dense that sensations can just die into. Any suggestions are welcome.
A couple comments about previous posts- I wish I could use wool, Iāll bet it works great. We have a flannel fitted sheet from CuddlEwe which is awesome, this is my second one from them, the first one lasted years. Really good quality. We also have a baseboard heater in our bedroom so we can keep it warmer than the rest of the house- that is one of my favorite things.