Mattress advice please

rippedoff3

Hi

Could someone please tell me if a full memory foam mattress would be heavier to carry than a traditional mattress?

I need one our spare room but i also want to take it into my childrens rooms to put on the floor for sleepovers so it needs to be carried.

I guess they don't come with carrying handles either?

Thanks

Shelley

MadMac_2

Well, from experience my memory foam mattress is lighter than a traditional sprung mattress and does have handles on the sides for easy turning and movement. So might be a good choice in this case? (I also find it very comfortable!)

Chris25

Mine is the other way around it's much heavier than our last sprung one. Just as well you don't have to turn them as I wouldn't be able to do it on my own. But it does have handles for carrying.

J_B

Chris25 wrote: »

Mine is the other way around it's much heavier than our last sprung one. But it does have handles for carrying.

Same here - that's all I have to say, but it won't send unless I use over ten characters!

Tim_Deegan

Full memory foam mattresses don't actually exist as they would just engulf you. I presume you mean mattresses made from a layer of memory foam on top of reflex foam?

A budget open coil sprung mattress would most likely be lighter. However a good quality open coil sprung, or a pocket sprung mattress would most likely be heavier than a foam one.

hilstep2000

Mine is a full memory foam mattress and it's lighter than my old one.
It's also very hot! You get used to it after a while though. I love mine, I haven't slept so well since I got it. I've got MS and find sleeping difficult because of pain and cramps, but this really helps.

tarajayne

Mine is heavy, removal men whinged all the way down the stairs.:rotfl:

Tim_Deegan

I am concerned by the number of people who think their mattress is 100% memory foam.

If a mattress was just memory foam then you would sink right into it and be completely engulfed. This would make you far too hot. Memory foam mattresses must have a layer of either springs or reflex foam under the memory foam.

There are some dodgy sellers out there who are trying to con people by selling 100% reflex foam mattresses as memory foam. They sometimes call them 'Reflex Memory Foam'. This is a complete con as memory foam and reflex foam are completely different.

newmommyjen

we just brought a memory foam mattress last week, a good buy and good bye to aching backs. we got if off this company
http://www.memory-mattress.co.uk/index.html
for 10% off order just type 10%
free next day delivery and free pillows with orders over £195.
five year guarantee will replace with no extra charge to you.
found some companys will give u free replacement in the 1st year, then it declines after each year. One company in the 5th year you would have to pay 90% towards the price of the new mattress.

Tim_Deegan

newmommyjen wrote: »

we just brought a memory foam mattress last week, a good buy and good bye to aching backs. we got if off this company
http://www.memory-mattress.co.uk/index.html
for 10% off order just type 10%
free next day delivery and free pillows with orders over £195.
five year guarantee will replace with no extra charge to you.
found some companys will give u free replacement in the 1st year, then it declines after each year. One company in the 5th year you would have to pay 90% towards the price of the new mattress.

There are bound to be people who are going to slate me for saying this because I also sell beds, but there are a number of dodgy sellers who do give customers duff information. More than anything I hate to see people being ripped off. For this reason I do often trawl through the information on various web sites when they are mentioned in these forums.

There are a few things that bother me about this seller and their products:

They only mention the density of the memory foam used on their toppers. They say that they are 55kg/m3 which is acceptable, but is at the lower end of the acceptable range. The only other place they mention the density is on their FAQ page where they say that the density of memory foam can go as low as 25kg/m3, but don't mention anything higher. So it makes you wonder what their mattresses contain.

Number 6 on their FAQ page says that sprung memory foam mattresses are cheaper to manufacture. This may be true for open coil springs if you already have a mattress manufacturing factory, but it is deffinately not true for pocket springs. There are two reasons why the reflex/memory foam mattresses are more common:

1) Anyone can buy a slab of reflex foam and a sheet of memory foam and glue them together. Manufacturing sprung mattresses is a skilled job, and involves years of research an development to get it just right.

2) Many cheaper reflex/memory foam mattresses come vacuum packed and rolled up which is obviously far cheaper to transport and store, but ask yourself why all the more expensive high quality ones don't.

Number 7 on their FAQ asks if memory foam mattresses are hotter than normal mattresses. Well I'm sure that most of you already know that this is untrue for reflex/memory foam mattresses. This is because the air can't circulate under the memory foam to dissapate the heat. Also if you do buy a mattress from them, only buy the one with 5cm of memory foam as this is the optimum depth. If the memory foam is too deep it will engulf you making you too hot.

Number11 on their FAQ's asks 'can I use an electric blanket?'. Their reply is: 'In the long term it can break down the memory cells, but is okay to use one just to warm the bed and not leave it on all night.'

The truth is that there would be no point in using an electric blanket on a memory foam mattress as it would stop the memory foam working properly. Memory foam is temperature sensitive, and reacts to your body heat in order to mould to the contours of your body. If you heat the whole of the memory foam with an electric blanket, then you will just make the memory foam go really soft and not give you the support it is designed to.

Also I should point out that you should NEVER leave any electric blanket on all night on any type of mattress.

Now I'm not saying that their mattresses aren't any good, because they don't give enough information about them. Also if they are high quality, then the price is good. However they don't appear to know about the products they sell.

saffiedale_2

we got one with 2000 coil spring, with 4inch meory ontop. i agree they are warmer than normal. very havy indeed. we were told that this was the besr you could get?ie, cuz of springs?duno if its me or my spine is that bad buti never get a good night sleep???????