Store suggestions in zip 21703

[phoenix]

Hi redbird,

Been doing searches on those models to see what I can find. Read some reviews of sagging with the Comfort Care. Our past mattress was a coil and we never had any sagging issues. Also concerned kind of of buying a memory foam core bed like the Tempagel because I am a stomach sleeper and you had mentioned somewhere that there was more poly in the quilting than you were comfortable with.

Restonic is a licensee group of independent manufacturers that often make their mattresses differently in different areas of the country. Many of the licensees are family owned private manufacturers that are fully transparent and others are less transparent. They make some good quality and value mattresses but a brand name makes little difference to me because a mattress is only as good as its construction and the quality of the materials inside it. I list them as a good option or “possibility” in many of the forum lists because depending on the prices and service of the retailer and the specifics of the mattress they can be a “better value” choice and you have higher odds of being able to find out the specifics of what is in the mattress than many other larger manufacturers in the top 15 (see this article) which means you would be able to make more meaningful comparisons.

Comfort Care is also a line of mattresses not a specific mattress and what you need is the specific information here about a mattress you are considering so you can make an informed choice.

The reviews you were reading may have been about a completely different Comfort Care mattress but I would be very cautious about using other people’s reviews or experiences on a mattress anyway (either positive or negative) as a reliable source of information or guidance about how suitable a mattress may be for you or the durability of a mattress and in many cases they can be more misleading than helpful because a mattress that would be a perfect choice for one person may be completely unsuitable for someone else to sleep on (see post #13 here).

Also concerned kind of of buying a memory foam core bed like the Tempagel because I am a stomach sleeper and you had mentioned somewhere that there was more poly in the quilting than you were comfortable with.

Again the mattress you are considering may be completely different from the one you were reading about. The most reliable way to know whether any mattress or combination of materials and components is a suitable choice for you in terms of PPP is based on your own careful testing and experience … hopefully using the testing guidelines in the tutorial.

I got the store’s spec sheet, but it doesn’t list the densities or specifics of anything. Still waiting for the store to email me back - although they said their Restonics were made in Albany, NY I believe.

Most spec sheets don’t list the density of the foam layers so they aren’t particularly useful but it’s the job of any good store or retailer to call their factory rep to find out the information that you need to make an informed buying decision and the factory would be more likely to provide one of their stores with this information than they would to a consumer because most wholesale manufacturers aren’t set up to deal directly with consumer questions.

I, like many others I see am leery to buy online, but that is still in the back of my mind!

While I can certainly understand a reluctance to buy a mattress online and many people share the same feeling … it’s can certainly be a good option to have available as a backup if nothing else in those cases where there aren’t any local mattresses that meet all your criteria for suitability, durability, and value or that would have an even higher risk involved with buying them.

Phoenix