taking a Tempur pedic mattress apart?

[phoenix]

Hi mjw,

Specifically, I have a Cloud Elite which has Tempur ES (whatever that is) for the comfort layer and Tempur for the core.
I had a Tempur Pedic for 10 years that I loved. It was firmer.

Tempurpedic makes a wide range of mattresses with different firmness levels and the Cloud Elite is one of their softer mattresses (what they call “extra soft”) and would be softer than most of the mattresses that Tempurpedic made years ago that didn’t include their 4 lb memory foam. The Tempur ES is their 4 lb memory foam which is the softest memory foam they use and is softer than their 5.3 lb and 7 lb memory foam.

I believe quality control at Tempur Pedic may not be what it used to. The bed that got delivered is much, much softer than the one I tried in the showroom. My first choice, the Contour, arrived much, much firmer than what I tried in the showroom.

Tempurpedic has quite stringent spec tolerances for the materials in their mattresses so they are generally very consistent in terms of how they feel but there are a number of other reasons besides the mattress itself that can result in a mattress feeling different when you receive it than it did in a showroom. These include different temperatures in the showroom compared to your bedroom (memory foam is temperature sensitive and is softer in warmer temperatures), the type of mattress protector or mattress pad or the sheets you are using (the mattress in the showroom would be a bare mattress and anything on top of memory foam can affect how much heat reaches the memory foam and how much and how quickly it softens), whether the foundation that you are using has any flex, and it can also take a few weeks for a new mattress to break in (although a new mattress will generally feel firmer for the first few weeks than the same mattress in a showroom that has already broken in).

Does anyone have any experience with taking one apart, ie, removing some or all of the comfort layer?

There are some suggestions in post #2 here that may be helpful with a mattress that is too soft and if all else fails and you have no other alternative than to replace your comfort layer (other than buying a new mattress) then there are some suggestions and guidelines for mattress surgery in post #2 here that may also be helpful.

Phoenix