Mammoth Mattress range

Hi Jane,

Thank you for your question.   We recently responded to someone asking about Mammoth mattresses and have copied our reply below.

In regard to Mammoth being ‘excellent for backs’ any suitable high quality mattress that has the correct spring tension for your size and shape, will help provide a more comfortable sleep experience.  We would never market any mattress solely as excellent for one thing as everyone is different.  We would also avoid the hype about sports and Olympians and look at the actual specifics of the mattresses.

The latex bed you describe has 4cm of ‘drilled latex’ which I guess means they have used their technique to castellate the latex, which in my opinion is slightly unnecessary given how fantastic solid core latex is in its pure state.

You only castellate foam to make it softer but with latex you’d be better simply choosing a lighter density rather than carving it up!

We have a full range of 100% natural latex mattresses that are ideal for pressure relief that you can look at here.

I do not know of Mammoth making a latex pocket sprung but they do make a foam sprung bed.  I also cannot give any guidance on the spring tension aspect as they use the american term ‘regular’ which gives me no indication how firm it is!

The specification does not offer any densities of the foams or gauges of the springs so again comparisons are hard.

I do not want to baffle you further Jane with specifics and think it would be easier to ask what you want from a mattress over the phone then I can give you some advice.

Mammoth mattresses are marketed as a sports/health mattress.  Having tried a number of them I can confirm that they are ‘high specification foam’, but what does this mean ? It means its a quality foam, which all quality mattresses should be, the John Ryan Contemporary range is all high specification foam/latex.

Mammoth use high density, firm, foams.

The Mammoth construction uses a v- cut castellation, which is to cut and checkerboard the slab of foam to create different tensions in the mattress. This allows the more closely scored sections to be more flexible and soft and the more distant scores to be firmer.

It is an interesting technique but as for health benefits you would need to ask to see the clinical research behind this..

I hope the above is of assistance but please telephone the office on 0161 437 4419 in order for us to recommend a mattress from our range.

Kind regards Julie