What mattress do you own? We are in the market for a new

[ScreamingMeemie]

mattress. Our old one is not comfortable anymore. We have had it so long, I don't know where to begin. So what do you suggest?

[spooky3]

1. glad you posted this--I'm looking too.

[Champion Jack]

2. We bought a Chatham and welles

Not sure about the spelling, have had it for 4 years so far and I like it. The old one was a Seeley posturepedic, which sucked.

On edit:

when I hit the 1/2 century mark I realized that sleep was my favorite drug.

[tridim]

3. I've slept on a Futon for 10 years

and can't sleep well on anything else. I hate bouncy beds.

[madaboutharry]

4. I was skeptical, but

I love our pillowtop. I feel like I am sleeping on a cloud. You need to go to a mattress store and lay down on one for a while.

[Palacsinta]

8. We have a featherbed

which I assume is like a pillowtop only seperate from the mattress. Anyway, it is just like sleeping in the bosom of a mother duck.........warm and soft and downy.

[Timefortruth]

11. If they are too soft they can aggravate back troubles. nt

[Timefortruth]

5. There is a guy that has a column in the Philly paper,

It has every imaginable question you can think of, all about mattresses.

Anyway, I'll try to find it again but what I remember is that Sterns&Foster K or above is great (and expensive) and S&F generally is best, and best value.

Let me try again for the link.

[gristy]

6. No matter what mattress you get

Put one of those egg-shell foam pads on top of it, then the mattress pad over that. You'll be in heaven!

[liberalnurse]

17. Please be aware that if you smoke....

it is highly flammable. They use them in the hospital and our hospital will not let them take the "egg crates" as they are called, home due to fire hazard.

[RoeBear]

7. Why hasn't anyone suggested a...

...sleep number mattress?!
:puke:


If it can support Rush's fat ass it must be good.
(that is there slogan isn't it?)

[liberalnurse]

16. I refuse to even concider this product.....

due to the "Rush" endorsement.

[Timefortruth]

25. Rush bought that mattress and became a world class addict due,

if you believe him, to back problems.

The thing speaks for itself. Avoid that mattress unless you have major drug connections!

[Timefortruth]

9. Found it!

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/living/home/design/ask_expert_front.htm

You will know everything you can think of about mattresses. It was incredible.

[trotsky]

10. Original Mattress Factory

I'm not sure if they are available in every corner of the country yet but they make a great mattress. We've had a pillowtop king for 3 years now and it still sleeps great. Best bed I've ever slept on.

http://www.originalmattress.com/

[GOPisEvil]

12. I have a Serta. Morgan Bay (firm).

I'm very happy with it. I bought it less than a year ago. :-)

[Darwin2002]

13. last week we bought one of those "sleep number" mattresses that

you can control the firmness on; there is a control for each side of the bed. my husband and i have different back problems so we can adjust it to our own needs. Thus far, I like it a lot

[Timefortruth]

26. Is that the one Rush says caused him to need 50 pills a day?

Maybe not.

[PinkTiger]

14. OK - this is what we have done here.

I have a Simmons Beautyrest, extra firm. However, it started to get a bit uncomfortable (pressure spots) so I shopped around for good mattress toppers (this is our third mattress, and we've been through all the mattress stuff). I now have found the perfect thing. We bought one of those Tempurpedic toppers at Sam's Club for $150 (about) and it is fantastic. It's about 2 inches thick and it is a perfect accompaniment to our mattress, taking out the pressure spots and giving us a wonderful night's sleep.
Just my opinion!

[Cleita]

15. Well, I won't recommend mine.

It's a beauty rest, but the tape on the edge of the box springs unraveled and I had to get down and sew it back by hand.

[AndyTiedye]

18. Waterbeds Rule

[LTR]

19. Here's a few threads from the archives

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=513991

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=445287

Hope this helps.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

20. Bought an air mattress over the internet

It has seperate chambers and memory foam on top, dual controls for regulating air for softness/firmness. Real comfy, cost about $650.

[ScreamingMeemie]

21. Holy Cow! You guys are great. Thanks for the responses.

:hi:

[kodi]

22. be sure to get one that passes california AB 603 flammablity tests.

this type of mattress will be totally resistant to burning. it may reduce your home owners insurance too.

serta and carolina mattress make them now, the other majors will be manufacturing them shortly.

you can just about hold a blow torch to them and they wont burn. its a real life-saving innovation for this market, since hundreds die in the US each year from fires started by mattresses burning.

[LTR]

23. Serta's upcoming new line will have fire-blocking materials

It will become mandatory for the entire industry by 2005.

[kodi]

24. i know, i sell to Serta's raw material suppliers their fire retardants

next up is the AB604 which will require similar fire resistant performances for bedding and blankets.

[KoKo]

28. Yeah but those "fire retardants" get in our bloodstreams, and they aren't

so good. How many of us set fire to ourselves in beds these days that we need this stuff?

[kodi]

31. kevlar, nomex & boric acid won't kill you. that's FRs used for mattresses

your post was a great example of having a little knowledge but only a few of the facts.

the polybrominated biphenyl fire retardants used in most plastics are found to present in blood streams and women's milk at parts per trillion in a study from california, but levels 1,000 times greater were found in lab animals to be of no cause for harm.

regardless, there are new generations of products on the market, and companies are keenly aware of the necessity for more safe alternatives to make substrates fire retardant.

all sorts of chemicals similar to water treatment chemicals or modified soaps are now available to flame retard materials without subsequent environmental hazards.

[flamingyouth]

27. Get a pillow top

We had this crappy old mattress for forever - I don't even know how long it had been in our family. It was passed down to us from my parents, who had had it in a guest room since, I don't know, 1450 or something.

Anyway, when we got our new one last year, we could not believe how much better we slept and how much better we feel. We're still saying, "I can't believe it took us so long to get a new mattress!"

I think ours is a Serta, BTW. The pillow top is key, though.

[KoKo]

29. Be Careful! New Mattresses are very high and your old sheets won't fit

them. The "Pillow tops are really high and your bed will look very puny under it because the new mattress/boxsprings are so high that they overwhelm your "head board and foot board."

I have a high four poster bed and the "lowest profile" mattress today is about 5 inches higher than the ones just 10 years ago. Plus some of them are so heavy it take more than two folks to turn them (which one needs to to every few months just to help the life of the mattress).

Be very careful and measure your old Mattress/Boxspring and compare when you go into the stores.

My 90 year old Dad needed a new mattress/boxspring and we had a terrible time finding something he could use. Went to store after store and they were all so thick and high he couldn't get himself up into them. I'm NOT kidding you here. We ended up having to buy a "bedframe/metal" which we inserted in his current "four poster" after taking out the bed slats so that the whole thing would sit lower to the floor. It's still about 2 inches off his old one and as he is a very short man, this has caused him some problems.

I vote for "Simmons Beauty Rest, btw, if you like a softer sleep. We've had them for years.

[ramapo]

30. All Foam

We've had this foam mattress for a few years. I have far fewer pains than with the standard mattress. However this one was too expensive and had a horrible checmical odor for a couple of weeks.

We stayed in a hotel over Christmas holiday and slept on a standard but extremely comfortable mattress. I wish I knew what it was.

[Lostmessage]

32. I own a couch mattress

It's oh so comfortable.

[VOX]

33. We recently bought a Select Comfort Bed...

My wife and I were unaware that Rush was a sponsor of this product, or we probably would have thought twice about buying it.

The salesman did show us a notebook of celebrity endorsements, which included a number of actors and athletes, but no Rush.

All that said, the price was on the high end (but *all* good mattresses are pricey these days), but it was well worth it!

The air chambers have dual controls (queen and king), and you can customize your firmness to any setting that's comfortable.

I cannot recommend this bed highly enough -- that is, if you can get past the moral roadblock of Rush's specter.

Sleep well -- :toast: