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I have been looking around for a replacement for a sagging pillow top mattress. I kinda wanted to avoid another pillow top as they don't seem to last as long as regular inner spring mattresses. I ended up buying a medium firm hybrid with memory foam on top. I have been using it for a few weeks and have a couple of issues:
1) It's too firm. It's harder than it was in the store.
2) It's hot
They say to give it time but I have given it a few weeks and it's still not all that comfortable. If I return it to Menards, the softer mattress is a pillow top, which I wanted to avoid.
It doesn't seem like any of the local stores carry a good old-fashioned inner spring mattress. Everything is either pillow top or memory foam. Why is that?
Debating whether to return this mattress or order a mattress cover. Or should I give it more time? I went back to the store and the floor display is softer. How long do these types of mattresses normally take to break in?
In our experience it takes several month of a break in period to get adjusted to a new hard mattress. Then the more you use it the softer it gets and in about 88-10 years your butt is hitting the floor.
We found a local mattress manufacturer that sold direct and got a mattress that worked well for us. They mad it to our wants and guaranteed it.
Modern mattresses sold in dept stores and mattress stores are a JOKE. There is no competition, and memory foam or polyfoam is in everything. AND they charge about 3x what they should be charging. They don't make them like they used to.
The only way I found around it was to buy a mattress online. I got one for my son from Nest, latex over springs, and got lucky that the FIRM was perfect for him. But for me I'm not happy with the lack of edge support and lack of structure in most of the bed-in-a-box options. There was one I wanted to buy but of course by the time I got around to having the money it was discontinued. When I absolutely MUST get a new mattress I'll keep my latex topper around just in case since most reviews mention they are firm and I want a little squish.\
My mattress is nearly 15 yrs old now and even at the time everyone was complaining about mattresses
In our experience it takes several month of a break in period to get adjusted to a new hard mattress. Then the more you use it the softer it gets and in about 88-10 years your butt is hitting the floor.
We found a local mattress manufacturer that sold direct and got a mattress that worked well for us. They mad it to our wants and guaranteed it.
Ok then perhaps I should give it more time then. It has only been a few weeks. It's a bit more softer than it was a few weeks ago but not as soft as it was in the store.
Modern mattresses sold in dept stores and mattress stores are a JOKE. There is no competition, and memory foam or polyfoam is in everything. AND they charge about 3x what they should be charging. They don't make them like they used to.
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The only way I found around it was to buy a mattress online. I got one for my son from Nest, latex over springs, and got lucky that the FIRM was perfect for him. But for me I'm not happy with the lack of edge support and lack of structure in most of the bed-in-a-box options. There was one I wanted to buy but of course by the time I got around to having the money it was discontinued. When I absolutely MUST get a new mattress I'll keep my latex topper around just in case since most reviews mention they are firm and I want a little squish.\
My mattress is nearly 15 yrs old now and even at the time everyone was complaining about mattresses
Given my bad luck with buying clothes and shoes online (I'm usually in between sizes), I figured it would not be a good idea to buy a mattress online. Perhaps I will reconsider if this mattress does not work out. In fact I will definitely reconsider given the options in the local stores.
Or perhaps I will find a topper and be done with it. It's a good mattress but still too firm.
And now, the lower cost memory foam market has pretty much evaporated ever since the bed in a box trend exploded. I still have a Serta Perfect Sleeper memory foam mattress that I love, and I would never trade it for a bed in a box. The Serta iComfort series costs significantly more.
Mattresses sold today are not meant to last. I despise memory foam, the off gassing is enough to turn me off but I also find it so uncomfortable, actually pain inducing.
We bought each of our teens a bed in a box from brooklyn bedding. Hybrid, Talalay latex over springs.
Both boys love it. I will need to try it out for myself before I buy one for us.
If you don't like the mattress, not sure what you should do. I know most stores have an exchange policy but not sure about a refund. If you can't get a refund, I would go with a latex topper.
I have been looking around for a replacement for a sagging pillow top mattress. I kinda wanted to avoid another pillow top as they don't seem to last as long as regular inner spring mattresses. I ended up buying a medium firm hybrid with memory foam on top. I have been using it for a few weeks and have a couple of issues:
1) It's too firm. It's harder than it was in the store.
2) It's hot
They say to give it time but I have given it a few weeks and it's still not all that comfortable. If I return it to Menards, the softer mattress is a pillow top, which I wanted to avoid.
It doesn't seem like any of the local stores carry a good old-fashioned inner spring mattress. Everything is either pillow top or memory foam. Why is that?
Debating whether to return this mattress or order a mattress cover. Or should I give it more time? I went back to the store and the floor display is softer. How long do these types of mattresses normally take to break in?
I had a similar experience with the one mattress I bought that had memory foam, a Beautyrest. It sagged very quickly (a supposed "feature" of memory foam), was hot as blazes and was hard as a rock because the foam just collapses down to nothing and creates pressure points.
I tried a couple of different toppers but they really didn't help. I gave it 2 years but never got used to it, so I switched it out for a 20 year old Serta that I had luckily held onto.
I ended up selling the Beautyrest mattress myself and buying a bottom-line Serta with no memory foam, no pillow top, and continuous coil construction (the way mattresses used to be) from Big Lots, of all places. It's been 6 years now with no sagging and no heat, and minimal pressure points. I don't know if they still make them or not. I believe at the time I was shopping, only Serta and Original Mattress Factory had models that did not have memory foam.
Good luck.
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