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Mattress Shopping 101

Friday, February 13th, 2009

Want to buy a new mattress? Here is a lowdown on the mattresses available in the market.

The ads for foam beds advertise the fact that you have spent your entire life sleeping on metal springs, which is a fact. They look elegant but have a steep price. So borrow a mattress from someone who will take it back after you sleep on it. But its disadvantage is that it adapts to your body. You can’t get out of the “mold” to roll over.

Sleep number beds are air beds with personalized number settings for every person. It gives an impression that people would enjoy better sleep on these beds by changing their preferred firmness setting. It reduced their back pain and allowed you to get a good sleep. Their only drawback is the price.

A regular mattress comes with an inner spring mattresses and costs the same as a foam bed. However they are quite expensive. As you go on reducing the budget, you will get the mattresses with fewer and inferior quality of layering components on the upper surface. Hence always ensure the spring count is as high as possible.

A Simmon’s Beautyrest® World Class® Exceptionale™ Two Story® Coil on Coil Beauty Rest is cheaper than Serta without the need to flip it. And it’s very thick. You may have to redo the bed to contain the thick mattress. The thickness affects all the layers of foam. It has a layer of the memory foam usually found in the solid foam beds.

Decide which bed is suitable for you. Get the whole set, as the box springs are designed to fit and support the latest, heavier mattresses.