Mattress Advice
 

I'm looking at getting a new Queen Size mattress/foundation for our guest room. Has anybody here on the CP bought anything new lately? I bought a very nice set from Hawn Bedding out in Lee's Summit about 10 years ago. I kind of like the new latex or memory foam mattresses. Money isn't a big object here, although I don't want to pay an obscene amount over traditional mattresses. Any advice on something that will last a long time, be comfy, and best place to buy in KC area? Thanks in advance!

I have a middle/upper tier Serta, don't remember the name, but it's a taller pillowtop. Best money ever spent. They have built some brand loyalty with me.

just bought select comfort king size. had a select comfort queen size for 19 years before that. moved it to the guest bedroom. no problems w/the old one...the wife just got tired of me groping her all night long.
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I wouldn't buy anything but Stearns and Foster...they are the best.

last time i checked memory foam mattresses were obscenely high priced.

sleep number bed.
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aren't they also expensive as hell?

like 2,500 for a queen in their basic model?

Watch the Penn and Teller Bullshit episode "Sleep Inc" available on Netflix streaming.

The hysteria around high end mattresses is really bullshit. Just find a decent on that is reasonably comfortable and save yourself a thousand bucks.

Who gives a crap about quality, its for the guest room.

high priced is right, but if i get 20 years out of one i think it's worth it. i don't mind paying more for a good nights sleep.

i've also laid several miles of pipe on that old mattress.;)
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Also, with the 'pillow top' or 'flip free' mattresses, they have woefully under-engineered the bottom half of the mattress. Basically, they tossed a nickel's worth of goodies to one side, then ignored the other.

Useful life of a flip free is like 1/3 of the old flip mattress.

I just bought a Select Comfort queen. Best sleep I've had in a while.

Now, that could be because it's replacing a 12 year old mattress, but I do like being able to adjust the mattress depening on how my back's feeling.

I have a select comfort and a tempurpedic (memory foam). Like them both ok, but wish the select comfort would hold air. Has to be pumped back up about every other day.

might be the compressor? you should be able to call their 800# and they'll send you a new one.

or, i guess you can spray a can of fix-a-flat in the mattress and shake the $hit out of it.
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Get a waterbed, baby.

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Good point. How comfortable do you really want your guests to feel? Three nights of being able to bear the mattress should be plenty.

I sold mattresses for three years. Unless things have changed a lot, what you get as you pay more is more and better padding. Each major manufacturer has their premium line: Serta Perfect Sleeper, Simmons Beautyrest, and Sealy Posturepedic. There's also King Koil and Restonic. Once you're in the line of the Sealy Posturepedic, for instance, what you're paying for as you go up is the padding, so the support is the same as you go, but they'll get softer, and the material used to pad it will be better (denser) and last longer. If you're using it for a guest room I wouldn't really worry about wear on the padding. The Perfect Sleepers and Beautyrests are more or less the same in that respect. Serta used to put a higher number of springs in the higher end models (they still might), but the guage of the metal is thinner and the Serta reps would tell me that they did it because so many people are focused on number of coils.
I have a Tempurpedic bed now and I like it a lot. Mostly because if you roll over or move it barely moves the other side of the bed.
To summarize, this is what I'd do. Go look at the entry level Serta Perfect Sleeper or Sealy Posturepedic at a store and then go up one or two levels.
Also, if you have a truck or can get one, ask them if they'll give you a discount if you take it with you. They normally say "free delivery", but there's a cost for them, and they might knock $30 off the price.
And one other thing- you won't have much luck shopping one retailer to another. The manufacturers change the covers and names on the beds for each retailer in a market. They don't want every store selling the same models because then one store will just undercut the other.

look up the newest latex beds too.

Good idea. I've had it for about 6 or 7 years. I pump it up to 100 and the next day it will be down around 75. I might give them a call. Thanks for the suggestion!

I love love love my Tempurpedic. Take it for your bedroom and move the old one to the guest bedroom.

They are the worst. old girlfriend had one and I thought I was going to end up a cripple. Had to buy a memory foam topper just so I could survive.

see, i know another person that made the same "cripple" comment. does it bother your back, or what?
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Update on the bed search:

This bed will be used on our guest room, but sometimes I sleep in there or my wife does because my wife sometimes has to get up really early for work, and I don't want her to wake me up, or sometimes one of us has a cold and doesn't want to share the cold, etc. So I'm going to spend a bit more than for just a basic coil mattress. Want something nice.

I've been looking at the Latex and Memory Foam beds. Best memory foam is Temperpedic, but they cost three times more than Latex mattresses, and I don't think they're necessarily three times better. I've been looking at the 6" Latex mattresses, and I can put a Memory Foam pad on top if I want to. Here in KC, there's a Hawn Bedding Factory,
http://www.hawnbedding.com
Their Latex Bed with box spring and bed frame, delivery, tax & everything for a queen size is just shy of $1500.

Two other reputable places in Independence have the Restonic Mattress
http://www.restonic.com/healthrest/latex.php
(made in Springfield, MO) 6" latex mattress, same basic set up as Hawn, for around $1300. I could buy the Restonic, and buy a 4" memory foam topper pad for about $100, and still be less than Hawn.

I've been to about five different stores, so I've shopped around pretty good. Anybody have any experience with Restonic? They've won six consumer's digest best buy awards for their latex mattresses. That's pretty good.

Any of you guys had any experience with latex, uh mattresses? I know Tempurpedic is nice, but damn, they are ridiculously expensive.

Don't buy the memory foam.

My wife bought that shit, and I woke up with the worst backache I've ever hd to endure.

Gotta go to the store and f**k on each one.

Seriously, though... Just go to a good store and lay on them. That's the real test. They could be cheap or expensive, memory-foam or innerspring, expensively-padded or thin-padded... if you lie on it and go, "Shit, this feels uncomfortable," then it's not for you.

I'll ask my wife about the first suggestion, but don't think she -or the salesman- will go for that.

I did more bed hopping than Tiger Woods today. I haven't smoked in 30 years, but somehow feel I could use a cigarette...

i need to get a new bed myself

was looking at those natural latex one but i dunno?

http://www.habitatfutons.com/latex_m...ml#productinfo

I totally misread that as "mistress advice".

We bought a latex mattress from Hawn on the basis that they would last longer and wish I hadn't. It's fine I suppose but a bit too firm for my back. Also, within a few years the mattress had "caved in" despite regular turning and flipping. We now have a memory foam topper on top of it which rocks.

If I were doing it over, I'd buy a cheap firm mattress and put a memory foam topper on it.

Lumpy & I bought one of those memory foam mattresses, (super king ftw) best ****ing bed evah. I can cut ass and the beds so big, it takes a 1/2 hour to creep over to her.
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This is what worries me ... i don't want that warped crap. The all-natural latex beds are supposed to not do that but who knows what to believe.

that one place has a 20 year warranty on their natural latex beds so surely they don't screw up too often.

We bought our last mattress at Costco. I think it's a Serta BS-O-Model-namedoesn'tmeananything. We like it. Didn't have to haggle and it's a premium product for a fair price. Hit me up in about 15 years and I'll let you know how it turned out.

Best advice I can give about a mattres ?

Don't ever marry a girl that has one attached to her back.

Guess that is your foreplay.

Well, you can get an expensive one that'll last many years, or a cheap one that you can use for a while and then discard. The bigger ones are more comfortable to lie on, 'cause there's more padding. Make sure they don't squeak or move around a lot when you jump on them or the noise might wake your wife. And try not to get a used one because you don't know what kind of stains or bugs they might have. :)

Closed the deal today. Mattress City in Independence. Restonic latex queen with memory foam top; foundation, frame, delivery, tax for around $1150. Nice bed, good deal. I'm happy! Hooray!