What do you know about the Kluft Raphael

[phoenix]

Hi Mom of 2,

But before we do I wanted to ask you about another mattress we tried called the Kluft Raphael in Bloomingdales. I read your post about this manufacturer, which I realize is not very forthcoming with information on the materials used, but we both liked the feel of the mattress which I believe is 85% Talalay latex. Not sure what the other materials are and I don’t feel they provide enough information on that (at least on the website).

You could check the percentage of latex by weight on the law tag (although this won’t tell you the percentage by thickness). The description says that there is 8" of latex in the mattress and the mattress is 13.5" high so 5.5" in the mattress (by thickness) are missing from the description and I would certainly want to know what they were before even remotely considering this mattress because they could certainly be a weak link in the mattress.

The one thing that I do not like about it is that the salesperson said you cannot use it on an adjustable base. Something about the rigid frame around the edges of the mattress. She said you could only bend it slightly. Do you know if this is true?

They are referring to a polyfoam “racetrack” perimeter around some of the foam layers (you can see the description here) which are used to provide edge support (see post #3 here for more about polyfoam edge support with latex). It’s possible that the edge support could delaminate with constant bending but if you call Kluft they should be able to tell you more “authoritatively”.

Phoenix