Problems with Tempur mattress

Mike asked

12th March 2015

Hi, I recently purchased two very expensive ottoman tempur beds from dreams. At first they were fantastic, but after a year of use my wife and I are noticing that we are waking up incredibly hot in the night. I am now worried that my ‘investment’ is no wasted. What do you advise we do to reduce the heat? is there a better bed out there that we can use on the base to try and minimise the loss if we need to change our Tempur mattress for a cooler mattress? Mike >

1 Answer

Lee Staff

answered 8 years ago

Hi Mike,

Unfortunately all memory foams retain heat.

Although Tempur use their own patented pressure relieving foam the result is often the same around heat retention. You may also find that your mattress-alternatives-comparison-models/” title=”Tempur”>Tempur mattress is harder in the winter or when the room is colder, which also is linked to the requirement of the these foams to warm up before they mould to you. Unfortunately apart from changing the tog of your duvet there is no easy way to remove the heat from such foams, even using different bedding such as Coolmax bedding will only go so far.

The alternative is to replace the mattress with one that has a lower Visco elastic threshold, ie doesn’t rely on heat as much or at all to mould. Hybrid and Latex foams are ideal for this. Hybrid foams are an innovative improvement on memory foam, reducing the heat and also being more responsive. They still will get warm to some degree, which some people love.

Latex is the least heat retentive of the foams and is a premium foam. If heat is a real concern the only way to reduce it even further is to go for a traditional pocket sprung bed, such as our John Ryan By Design range, but a lot of people choose foam for the pressure reliving qualities which foams are excellent at. Please have a look at our hybrid and latex beds for more detail.