Limited headroom for mattress

again Sarah asked

13th February 2013

Hi John and Ryan, Thanks so much for your reply. Your website is very informative and I am very disappointed that our room can’t accommodate one of your great mattresses. The mattress we currently have is only 10cm deep. It is from the Futon Co and is 10 years old. Our bed is also from there but is not a Futon, just a simple design with Tatami mats base. We don’t have a lot of room under the eaves and the bigger the mattress the less head room we have so would probably not want to exceed 20cm depth if possible. I was considering the Ikea latex mattress which I know is only 25% Natural Latex and 75% synthetic but it is only 18cm high. My preference is pocket over memory foam but Latex maybe an option I haven’t considered as I believe it doesn’t make you overheat like memory foam can. (our house is quite warm anyway!) I am concerned that if we get a cheaper pocket mattress we will need to get extra layers that will make the height too high. I forgot to say that I also had a look at some of the NEXT mattresses which might fit, do you know who makes their mattresses?

If you are aware of any others that may suit us that would be a great help. Thank you Sarah .

1 Answer

Lee Staff

answered 11 years ago

Hi again Sarah.

A fairly decent inexpensive mattress will be 20cm high – anything less than this will equate to a cheap mattress (all springs, minimal upholstery).

There is no doubt about it that you will have to utilise a mattress plus topper combo.

Due to your limited budget I would consider a 16cm memory foam mattress (the Breasley Valuepac comes in at around £180.

(Kingsize) 5cm Memory Foam + 11cm Reflex).

Use this as the foundation and spend a good £150 or so on a substantial topper (Feather and Down for example) for the comfort.

This combo should give you the 20cm depth you require.

Our favourite bedding store is Soak and Sleep – use them as a benchmark for pricing comparable products.

The alternative will of course be the ikea latex (bear in mind that your bedframe may not accommodate this Euro size).

As this part is only going to be used as the support element, it makes no significant difference about the quality of the product (obviously in relation to the price).

A foam construction is significantly better than a cheap spring unit.

No idea who manufactures the Next mattresses.

I tried to do a comparison for you on their memory foam products but no essential detail was given.

Hope this makes sense.

Please let me know what you decide upon.

Kind Regards Gary