Hi SleepyGary,
I think you may mean Pleasant Mattress in Fresno AKA Cannon Sleep Products.
They are larger regional manufacturer and are a licensee manufacturer for Spring Air and Paramount Sleep and A.H. Beard (an Australian higher end brand). They also manufacture their own line of mattresses as well as many private label brands for various retailers. They have been in business for over 50 years and have been manufacturing new mattresses and futons for about 40 years. They certainly have some long term roots in the industry. Of course regardless of the brands they manufacture or the name on a label … any mattress is only as good as it’s construction and the quality of materials inside it.
[quote]Recently we found a small local mattress dealer who advertized a100% Natural Talalay Latex Mattresses. The graphics are Spring-Air Organics Back Supporter. And the model is Sunrise Lux. We tried it out briefly and it seem comfortable, but did not seriously do an analysis using your PPP approach. Instead, I thought I read about it online… but could find absolutely nothing using a lot of search terms. I emailed to store about the mattress make up and here’s what I got.
6" 36 ild talalay latex
2" 19 ild talalay latex
1" 14 ild talaly latex
organic joma wool (not sure how much)
organic stretch knit cotton cover. The sides are covered in a proprietary rayon. No chemical fire retardants.
The latex is made by Latex International.[/quote]
If these are all the layers in the mattress and add up to the thickness of the mattress which would probably finish closer to about 10" (and they probably are) then it uses all high quality materials and there are no weak links in the mattress.
There is only an inch of the very soft 14 ILD which would provide a soft surface feel and the 19 ILD would work well for many people in your weight range so it would certainly be “in the range” of a mattress that could work well for you.
If you have done some careful and objective testing for PPP (hopefully with both of you on the mattress) then the materials are all good quality and if you are also comfortable with the other parts of your personal value equation that are important to you then I think it would be a good value purchase for a queen 9" blended Talalay latex mattress with a wool quilted cover.
It would be somewhat “in between” the PLB Pamper which has 8" of blended Talalay latex in a 6" + 2" design and the PLB Nature which has 10" of blended Talalay latex in a 6" + 2" + 2" design except it has a little more costly cover with wool in the quilting and the ILD’s of the comfort layers are a little softer.
It would also be great to know who you were dealing with and if they have other good value mattresses on their floor they may be well worth including on the Santa Rosa / San Francisco list.
Phoenix