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I decided to invest in a king sized tempurpedic a couple of years ago and it's one of the best decisions I've ever made. My parents have a few of them (2 homes) and when I stayed with them on vacation I swore I never slept better. I had a torn rotator cuff which never had surgery and the bed alleviated a lot of the pain.
I warmly recommend a company called The Original Mattress Factory. I bought one of theirs about 15 years ago, and it's still going strong. They have four or five levels of firmness for you to try, as well as adjustable beds. The prices are good and the quality is clearly better than any of the well known brands. However, they're not national; mostly along the east coast from PA to Florida, and one or two mid-west states.
I spent the day looking for a new mattress and was leaning towards a foam design. I was close to settling on a Sealy CoolSense (forget the model...it was just about the cheapest in the line at Sleepy's) or a Sleep Options. Each was available for about $1k. I remembered this thread from a few years ago and wondered if other people had explored latex mattresses since this thread was last active. I just spend a few hours looking around online at latex options and found most of them to be out of my price range, but there are some more affordable models from Amazon, Ikea and a few random small companies. One problem is that I can't figure out where to try any latex mattresses out except for Ikea. Any thoughts?
I always fall asleep in about 60 seconds and sleep like the dead until the alarm goes off, but I was finally forced to admit that my old coil spring mattress was years past retirement due to an impressive amount of sag, and thus did a ton of research late last year before finally buying a new mattress.I ended up with a 9" natural Latex mattress made up of 3 layers of 3" thick Latex foam, each with a different firmness level that I can swap around at will. After a lifetime of sleeping on firm coil-spring mattresses, I was going to order firm/medium/medium layers, but ended up with firm/medium/soft and am glad I did. (2 of the layers are split down the middle, so I can change the firmness separately on each side of the bed as well.) I bought it all on sale from a local dealer after testing quite a few brand options and latex firmness combinations in the store, and the deal was good enough that I even sprang for a 3" wool topper, which I hadn't originally planned on. All ticking is organic cotton. It took a single night to adjust to the softer bed, but it is incredibly supportive and phenomenally comfortable - it's harder than ever to get out of bed in the morning! It was definitely more than I intended to spend, but now that I've been sleeping on it for a while, it was absolutely worth it, especially as I'll likely use it the rest of my life.For what it's worth, all the Latex foam in my bed was processed via the older Dunlop method, rather than the newer Talalay method. Talalay will generate slightly softer layers that will tend to be more uniform in density, but the difference is minute at best, and very much secondary to the overall density of the given foam layer. And if you're going to put a topper on it, I see even less reason to pay the premium for Talalay processed Latex foam. (If you're going to use a Latex layer as the topper, rather than wool, cotton, down or some other material, then it might be worth considering, but I'd still be hard pressed to notice the difference relative to a simple change in foam density.)
My vote is for a Sleepm Number bed. My wife and I have had one for 9 years with no backaches between the two of us. Being able to dial in different firmness levels for each side is WONDERFUL.Th longest life we have had for a matress before this was five years. This was for top end Sealy or Simmons mattresses. Our Sleep Number is still going strong. We have a friend who has had one for 25 years. Air does not lose support over time.
