Why not buy a tempur mattress

[phoenix]

HI Berggren,

Welcome to the Mattress Forum!

Based on what the sales people tell me, these two kinds of beds are also the ones that offer maximal pressure relief…is that true?

All of the layers of a mattress work together to provide overall comfort and pressure relief, but memory foam and latex would be considered generally the most point elastic materials. Testing for comfort and pressure relief is described in a bit more detail here.

My question is that you recommend to avoid tempur. I would like a more thorough answer as to why if you don’t mind? I live in Copenhagen, and have been in pretty much every bedding store in the city. Every sales person I’ve spoken with in the stores tells me that Tempur foam mattreses are the highest quality of foam mattresses. Yet you tell me to avoid them?

Your representation of my comments upon Tempurpedic aren’t quite accurate. You can perform a forum search on Tempurpedic (just click on the link) and it will bring up over 4000 mentions of them here on the forum, and if you look through those posts you will see I’m very consistent on my comments about them and provide the “more thorough” answer you desire. But to make things easier for you, here is a common reply I provide for consumers considering Tempurpedic:

Tempurpedic mattresses use good quality materials but as you know they are in much higher (and mostly unjustifiable) budget ranges and for most people they certainly wouldn’t be in the best “value” range compared to many other smaller manufacturers that use similar (or in some cases better) quality materials that are in much lower budget ranges. You can read more about Tempurpedic in general in posts #1 and #2 here.

The quality of their foams are generally good (they have started to use some lower density foams as compared to before and are not being as transparent as they were previously about foam densities), but their budget range is quite high, and there are other offerings here in North America, such as Novosbed or Christeli, who make a product using similar or higher density materials at prices that are more affordable.

There is more about the 3 most important parts of the “value” of a mattress purchase in post #13 here which can help you make more meaningful quality/value comparisons between mattresses in terms of suitability (how well you will sleep), durability (how long you will sleep well), and the overall value of a mattress compared to your other finalists based on suitability, durability, and all the other parts of your personal value equation that are most important to you (including the price of course and the options you have available after a purchase if your choice doesn’t turn out as well as you hoped for).

So I don’t recommend to “avoid” them specifically, but for people to make their own personal value equation, specifically with the price point they are offered at here in North America.

Based on the fact that I seem to need a lot of pressure relief, do you know of any particular store/brand in my area that you would recommend me checking out?

I’m sorry, but this site focuses on North America, so I have no site members or references for Copenhagen. Perhaps there are other site members here who are familiar with your area who can make a suggestion.

Another side question. I tried (just in the store) a soft, medium and firm latex mattress. I much preferred the soft one. Yet the salesperson told me that because I weigh 78 kg, I should never get a soft mattress - those are for people weighing less than 65 kg. What are your thoughts on that?

I’d refer you to the mattress shopping tutorial, which outlines all of the steps you’ll need to know in selecting a mattress, including how to evaluate materials for their applicability. You may also wish to look at The Five Steps To Finding Your Perfect Mattress here.

Phoenix