Hi to all and Pheonix! I don’t know how you get to be answering all the posts here, you must be a robot! :lol:
So, I had a mattress quest in the past year and read a whole lot of info on these forums.
I ended up buying my main king mattress at SleepEZ and I really enjoy it so far, it has been about 3 months.
I am now looking for a twin size for my almost 4yr old dude.
I am in Montreal.
The thing is here, prices are quite high… hard to find something under 900$ for a 100% Latex.
I first thought I’d go with SleepEZ again… but you know, I wanted to give local a chance and since I’m on vacation this week I took some time to shop around. You gotta know that I’m a big sucker when it comes to getting the best price without neglecting quality. I do believe that you get what you pay for but personal experience has shown me that price just CAN be low AND pay less than msrp!
Ok, so I went to see a small shop yesterday that had a latex twin for 380$! Obviously it was a fake, inside the color of the foam was alot more yellowish kinda like memoryfoam but had holes in it! I couldn’t believe it. Have you heard of anything like that? I guess some manufacturers now will just try to sell foam and say it’s latex and have holes in em… i left that place in a hurry…
Today I had one liquidation place calling me back saying the received a twin latex mattress and that I could come and take a look at it. Fine! When I get there the mattress has no zipper, so the cover was all stitched like regular mattress and with labels all over written TempurPedic! (Only when I came back home I realized that Tempur only makes Foam mattresses, correct me…)
So it looks fine, for what I can actually see. I was begging the guy for more info but he assured me he didnt have any and that the mattress core was made by some Ultra manufacturer here in Quebec. I only found Les Fab Ultra Canada Ltd, a company of Vitafoam.ca. But I wonder why they would have used a TempurPedic cover… I kept bugging the guy, he wants to sell it 500$, by the way this place is http://matelas.xt1.ca/ or also known as club matelas. They sell returns or defects I guess. I don’t really mind if the mattress is super clean.
Back to the story the mattress is looking great but shows like if slats had been underneath it. Could have been a demo… Also the holes were bigger than what I’m used to see. Anyways the guy saw I was hesitant and offered to cut a part of the thread and open it a bit so i can see the inside!! :ohmy: I thought that was fun! Let’s take a look inside!
It was a pretty beige-creamy typical latex color. But, I noticed that the bottom part had no holes. The salesman said it’s because it was designed for an electric bed. Also it appeared that the cover was lightly glued to the mattress and I could detach a small portion to notice something blue covering the latex, like some glue maybe, does that make sense?
Anyways, I know this is edgy but it does look alright. My next step is to try to find the manufacturer. Does a company in Quebec with Ultra in it’s name tell you anything?
What about the blue stuff or glue, I expect it to be normal but maybe someone can confirm.
I looked at FBM but was pretty much discouraged reading up on them.
I saw good deals also in the US with sleeponlatex for 300$ Dunlop core, I would still need a cover.
Foamorder has a clearance block for Twin Firm for 378$, still need a cover, they sell some.
Matress247 on ebay has one for 395 with cover but no medium/firm available… than maybe a for small kidd medium/soft would be fine…
If I could just find a plain core somewhere local and a twin cover i’d be set. I just don’t want to pay over 500$ on this.
What are you thoughts? Beside that I’m cheap! :lol: