Sleepmaker Chiro Ultimate Dream

[phoenix]

Hi dee rose,

Thanks for the update and feedback, and for starting a new topic … I appreciate it.

3. The bed at 9 weeks is still not as soft as in-store. I know mattress in the store may have had more use, but if so, how come you don’t ever see body impressions in the in-store mattresses? Perhaps some sort of roller is used to soften them up?? If so i wish new mattresses could come pre-softened. I do acknowledge that in-store there is no mattress protector nor sheets which could affect comfort.

Most in store mattresses haven’t been used for long enough periods of time (either on a daily basis or over a long enough period of time) to develop body impressions. Mattresses in the store don’t get used as much as a mattress that a consumer sleeps on every night. The main reasons why a mattress you receive would feel different from the one in a store is either …

A. Your testing was too “subjective” and didn’t predict your sleeping experience. Almost everyone has had the experience of testing mattresses on a particular day or even early in the day and then retesting the same mattress later on in the same day or on another day and the “feel” seems to have completely changes because our reference points have changed and “subjective” memory is not very accurate.

B. The mattress you received is somehow different from the one in the store (other than receiving the wrong mattress this would be less common)

C. The mattress you receive hasn’t had the chance to break in and soften to the same degree as the store mattress

D. Any sheets and bedding (such as a mattress protector or mattress pad) have changed the feel of the mattress compared to the one in the store which would be a “bare” mattress.

Some manufacturers do pre-compress their mattresses first (such as Simmons transflection system) but there will still be some break in and adjustment period for any new mattress.

4. I did not notice in the store that the mattress had a convex shape to the top of it, so this is my bad. The first few weeks both my husband and I felt as though we were going to fall out of bed if we rolled to close to the edge. Very disconcerting in the middle of the night, so it would wake us. Now I know why sales staff would mention with some mattresses that you could sleep right to the edge. Either the bed has flattened a little with use or we have adapted and sleep closer to the middle now but this no longer bothers us. We bought a king size so this is a minor annoyance. For anyone purchasing a Queen or Double this would be a definite factor to consider when deciding whether this was the mattress for you. I wounder whether this is a deliberate attempt to minimize the impact of body impressions.

Crowning is certainly a built in design feature that can help with impressions but as you mentioned it can affect the initial “feel” of the mattress until the layers have had a chance to settle.

5.At this stage, 9 weeks in, there is only a barely perceivable body impression. You have to really look to even notice it. Despite my best efforts we don’t spend much time on the middle section of the bed, so this aspect is going much better than expected. Is it really the first couple of months you can expect body impressions to appear?

If the mattress is well constructed and uses food quality materials then it would normally take years to develop impressions not months. If there are some fibers in the mattress which will pack down and compress then there will be some minimal impressions earlier on. There can also be some minimal impressions in foam (either visible or virtual from foam softening) but these won’t be significant or affect the performance of the mattress if they are good quality materials).

6. The mattress seems to regulate body temperature really well. The week we took delivery was a real scorcher with maximums of about 36 - 38 degrees Celsius (97 - 100 degrees Fahrenheit), but I slept quite cool. We came off latex, which is renowned to build up heat. Although the heat issue had not ever bothered me on the latex, I did really notice a difference.

Actually latex is the most breathable and temperature regulating of all the foam materials (memory foam, polyfoam, latex foam) but no foam will be as breathable as natural fiber materials. There are many reasons why “some” latex mattresses will sleep warmer for “some” people and it usually has to do with what is over the latex in the mattress (including the type of mattress protector, sheets, and bedding). It’s often the case that a so called “latex” mattress only uses latex in some of the layers. There is more about the factors that can affect sleeping temperature in post #2 here. While any foam mattress can sleep warm compared to fiber materials … latex is well known in the industry to be the “coolest” of the foam materials.

Thanks again for all your great comments and feedback and I’m glad that overall your mattress is working out so well for you

Phoenix