Getting the Best Foam Mattress
Dust mites. Mold. Bad nights’ sleep. Just the thought of the bugs alone can mess up a nights’ rest. One of the most important pieces of furniture you buy in your life is your bed and mattress. We spend around 30 percent of our life in bed, yet probably buy only four to six mattresses in our lifetime. This tells you a couple of very important facts. The markup in beds and mattresses is excellent. The pressure on sellers to convince you to buy from them is high, since you won’t be buying another one in the next couple weeks.
Beds and mattresses are one of the most advertised products in the world. It shouldn’t be a purchase made without the facts. Since the 80’s the numbers and types of surfaces on which we sleep has exploded, providing even more choices and options for consumers. You can stay with the old reliable innerspring mattress. Move to a technology driven memory foam mattress. Try the new latex style. Entertain your inner hippie with a water bed. Get an adjustable bed and mattress for complete flexibility in how you sleep. Sleep on air if you wish, with the new air mattress that inflates and deflates at the touch of a button. Or do the pullout routine and grab a futon or sleeper sofa. All these choices for a place you’ll spend the majority of your time on Earth. Is it any wonder there are a lot of claims and counter claims?
The two most common mattresses are the innerspring, and the memory foam mattress. This article will focus on these products to help you make a good choice.
Innerspring mattresses are the ones we are all most familiar. Their premise is simple. Springs, wrapped in cloth, and suspended in some type of foundation, is how most of us have slept since the time we came home from the hospital. There’s a great deal of information on wear of these types of mattresses and the strength and weaknesses of this style are well known.
What’s less well known is the kind of sleep you can get on the best foam mattresses, or memory foam. This style conforms to the body. The sleep is described by owners is like “melting” or “floating.” The best foam mattresses are very resistant to dust mites and mold. The data is still being collected on the amount of wear you can get from these technological marvels, but early reports indicate you can expect them to last as long as a standard innerspring unit.
Cost of memory foam mattresses vary, as with any product. Expect the best foam mattresses to cost $5-6,000, while you can get the advantages of this technology for as little as $350.
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