Pocket memory mattress replacement
Firstly, what a great website with loads of useful info. Bit of a long comment from me, but it may help potential buyers. Mattress buying unlike any other purchase is rather a unique and frustrating process with the big retailers/manufacturers using some rather underhand techniques to remove you from your hard earned cash. Two years ago we were desperate for a new mattress, old one we had was long past its use by date, and wife had chronic back pain. Out we went to our local reputable department store to hopefully find a mattress. we did the customary lying down test on 6 or so with the salesman eagerly following us. As per usual, wife only found expensive ones comfortable (way over our initial £500 budget). Spending up to a £1000 on something I really needed to make sure we were buying right. After asking a few technical questions about the various mattresses we were interested in and receiving a few wishy washy answers from the salesman, I decided more research was required. I researched and researched but just ended up going around in circles (had not found your website) and unable to make a sensible decision. BTW I research everything I purchase and can usually make a sensible/informed decision, but this industry is something else!
Anyhow unable to justify spending so much money on something I knew so little about or could find out about scared me. So on the recommendation of my sister-in-law (we saw and tried their mattress) and in desperation we purchased the same via fleabay-a king size pocket spring, with memory foam top, cant remember the exact spec, but is called “**-Pocket Memory” and price was cheap (or not!
as I found out, cost vs worth!). It arrived and looked good quality, although i must admit it did look slightly distorted in cross section (parallelogram shape). Took it upstairs or should I say man handled it, it was hell of a weight, which I thought “hey, this must be good quality, feel the weight of it”. As mentioned it is supposedly memory foam, I believe it is because you get so damn hot. It seemed ok-ish to start with, but as mentioned in another post, almost anything would have been better than our old tired mattress. After a year it started to become more and more uncomfortable. we rotated it etc, but now it has permanent dips in it, we have resorted to turning it upside down for now. A couple of questions about this and other mattresses,….. Our mattress is heavily tufted, albeit it has a memory foam top, is this normal?
My wife insists on using a mattress fitted electric blanket, would the heat from the electric blanket affect the memory foam?
Or indeed potentially damage any mattress construction?
Just taken the bed covers off to have a better look at it now I am better informed, looks as if there is no side stitching, definite curvature over length of mattress, about 50 or 60 mm of foam on top (looks similar to pillow top I.e. separate mattress attached to top). Label (stick on) has no info except for name and made in UK. I believe they are manufactured in the north of England. So the process of buying a new mattress starts again and the £300 spent on the last mattress is down the pan, in just over a year. Will be giving you guys a ring shortly to discuss our requirements as your honest and open approach leaves me with no qualms about placing an order with you, keep up the good work. .
Hi Jez.
Thank you for your enquiry. Before you go out and buy another mattress I think you may be wise to try and make the best out of a bad situation. There is no doubt about it that the spring unit itself will still be performing its primary function as adequate support. It seems to me (obviously based on what you have said) that it is the memory foam layer that has deteriorated to such an extent that the comforting properties have completely gone.
Memory Foam is completely and utterly over marketed. Peoples expectations of this particular bedding component are quite rightly on the verge of mattress Nirvana – but in reality, in most cases, it will not live up to the hype it is afforded. The crucial part of your mattress is the memory foam layer. At 5-6cm deep, it is a generous amount and I don’t think you have overpaid for the mattress as a whole. However, it is unlikely that the actual memory foam component is of a satisfactory quality. A 65kg/m3 foam will not have dipped so severely within the space of a year which leads me to believe that the actual density of this is far less – probably 45kg/m3 or so (I’m only guessing here).
The use of the electric blanket ‘could’ have had an impact on the actual foam. As memory foam reacts to body heat (and softens because of this) the heat generated from the electric blanket may have caused the foam to deteriorate quicker. This is obviously pure speculation – I have never been able to obtain categoric confirmation that heat from an electric blanket will actually do this and I have heard completely opposing views from manufacturers on the subject. Some say it’s OK to use – and some say it isn’t!
Going back to your mattress, I would assume the dip cannot be any more than 50% of the actual layer (2-3cm) and so the addition of a further memory foam or layer will be all that is required to rejuvenate your current mattress. I would be inclined to add a bridging layer on top of your mattress and underneath the new memory foam topper in the form of something relatively substantial, such as a cheap hollow fill duvet from Tesco. This is to bridge out the hollow / dip and provide a reasonably stable platform for your new topper.
Hope this helps Jez. Please let us know if this makes a substantial difference to the overall comfort of your mattress. If we can be of any further assistance please do not hesitate to call the office on 0161 437 4419.
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