It has been a month or so and I am still searching for the right mattress. There are so many choices with these online companies it is tough to pull the trigger.
Since I am 6 ft about 290 pounds, can you give companies that make mattresses with the suggested qualities that are good for my size?
You may want to look at some of the more “custom” made mattress companies such as Winn, or the Amish made Peaceful Sleeper (no website just found at high quality retailers). They make some excellent stuff.
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Hi kilowatt59,
It would probably help you narrow down your choices to do some local testing to find out which types of materials and mattresses and firmness levels that you tend to prefer in general terms that you can use as a reference point and guideline for an online choice…
I don’t keep a record of the individual mattresses or their specs that the retailers and manufacturers in the hundreds of forum lists throughout the forum carry on their floor or have available online (it would be a bigger job than anyone could keep up with in a constantly changing market) but checking their websites and making some preliminary phone calls to the retailers/manufacturers that are on the local lists is always a good idea before you decide on which retailers or manufacturers you wish to deal with anyway. This will tell you which of them carry mattresses that would meet your specific criteria, are transparent about the materials in their mattresses, and that carry the type of mattresses that you are interested in that are also in the budget range you are comfortable with. Once you have checked their websites and/or talked with the ones that interest you then you will be in a much better position to decide on the ones that you are most interested in considering or visiting based on the results of your preliminary research and conversations.
In very general terms if you are only looking at memory foam mattresses then I would look for mattresses that don’t contain more than “about an inch or so” of memory foam that is less than 5 lb density or polyfoam that is less than 2.0 lb density (see the durability guidelines here).
Phoenix