Looking For A Mattress Topper? The Best Of 2017 ReviewedOverheating in bed, steps to take - sleep filter May 11, 2015 Subscribe I haven't been sleeping well. I have a crappy polyester comforter and Target Jersey Cotten Sheets, and a $600 10 inch memory foam mattress from Amazon with two memory foam pillows. So - basically everything that would make me overheat. Would adding a Latex Topper to the mix fix a lot of problems? After sweating all winter I'm worried about a toasty summer. I keep my bedroom around 72 F in the summer, and have a ceiling fan on at all times. I need the feeling of blankets on me, but I just get so hot. -Blankets: I think I'm going to get a duvet cover from target, along with some different (maybe?) cotten bedsheets The jersey sheets have a great feel to them but also have gotten pilly/stretched after a year. -Pillow: I'm completely at a loss here, except that memory foam doesn't seem like a good fit, and I hate it when feathers poke my face.
Those Chillow things have reviews that say it only lasts for 5 minutes, and I don't have a lot of fridge space. My main question is in regards to my mattress. I bought this mattress around 2 years ago, and enjoyed it okay. Mostly I liked the price point. It seems to give plenty of support, but it does get extremely warm. Some people recommend buying a wool blanket to put on my mattress under my sheet, but that confuses me because wool is typically very warm, and when I look on Amazon, it usually says "excellent at retaining heat" etc. A lot of people have recommended latex mattress toppers to fix the warmth. But when I look at the latex mattress toppers, most comments/reviews are saying that they put them on a traditional bed, a bed with box springs. I feel like, if the memory foam is absorbing my heat and reemiting it, wouldn't the same thing happen, but more, with a cushy latex topper? Also, I know nothing about latex toppers, but none of them have amazon prime so returning the topper could be problematic/annoying.
This is the topper I was considering. It also comes in soft, medium, or firm, and I'm not sure which I'd prefer. I mean, soft is nice, but the mattress is already medium cushy (firm when cold) so it's quite a hard decision for me. Especially when the topper is the same price as the mattress. There's a few other toppers with similar price points. I can afford as much bed as I need to make me cool, but I don't want to waste money either. So - should I get a topper for my mattress? Should I bite the bullet and buy a new mattress from ikea/mattress store? Will changing the other aspects of my bed help enough to negate the effect of the warm mattress?If you have a matress "topper", how do you deal with sheets? Linens, Mattress, Mattress Toppers, Bedding • Print this Page Link to this Topic [+3] - CalamityJane - 04/05/2012 [+3] - Butrflynet - 04/05/2012 [+3] - boomerang - 04/05/2012 Our mattress doesn't have an attached one. This topper is a separate thing all together.
We bought a new bed about a year ago and it's one that is supposed to be "loosely sheeted" to get the maximum comfort out of it (it's supposed to spread a bit as it gets broken in). Even expensive sheets fit it fairly tight so I can't just put the topper on top of the mattress and expect the bed to sleep right. Then Mr. B messed up his joints and the bed feels too firm. So I'd like to do the topper but it's about 2" thick and I know I can't get the sheets to fit. OK, the "pillow top" isn't attached either, it has elastic straps at the corners--it is removable. As i say, i don't know if fitted sheets here are sewn to account for that or not. Oh I get it! I thought you were talking about those pillow top mattress' that had the "pillow" sewn on. Yeah, that sliding around thing would maybe drive me nuts. Is the one you have heavy? The one I'm looking at is pretty heavy. It doesn't have elastics though.I'm not intimately familiar with Canajun mattresses, so i don't know if the pillow top is commonly sewn on or not.
I guess it's relatively heavy, i've not attempted to measure the thickness. If it has no elastics, is the fitted sheet supposed to hold it in place? Do you know what a feather tick is? Having you thought about finding one of those? When i was a child, my grandmother kept the down when plucking chickens, ducks and geese, and then bought ticking to make feather ticks. This is what her feather ticks looked like--the striped material is called ticking. They were about as wide as a "Hollywood" bed, so that would roughly have been half as wide as a queen size. We slept on those on the floor of the cabin we had in the woods, under our sleeping bags. I recall they were very comfortable, even though we slept on a hard wood floor. There used to be a store here that sold down mattress'. I loved the one I had. Mr. B didn't love it so much though -- "too poofy". It's made by the same company that made our bed -- and we all really like this bed. Especially the dog who is sleeping on it right this very minute.
Which brings up another point. It would be much cheaper to replace the topper as needed than to replace the mattress.... Well, dogs are natural born sybarites--the dog's opinion rules. Our dogs sometimes let me have as much as a quarter of the mattress. Yeah, that thing is thick as hell. What we have is probably not that thick, and the upper an lower covers are basted together at the edges. We upgraded to a memory foam mattress last year, and I can't believe the difference. They ship it direct to your door, rolled up in a tight cylinder, and you have to let it expand for a day or so. I think you can get memory foam mattress toppers, too, of varying depths. I checked out memory foam toppers while I was there today. (I drove that poor salesman crazy dragging his displays all over the store.) This one was a lot more comfortable but I like the price of the memory foam one a lot better. I've heard memory foam "sleeps hot" and read a lot of reviews that say the same thing.
That's one of the reasons we went with the bed we bought. Have you found that to be true? No, but we have the full mattress, not just a topper. That's what we got -- a latex bed make by a company called Pure Latex Bliss. The newer foam mattresses are laminates of multiple kinds of foam. Not all of them. The real ones are pricy but worth it.And supposedly they last forever (ours came with a 20 year warantee). Except they do take a while to "relax" and that leads to the whole sheeting issue and that's kind of pain. Mr. B has been trying to get more exercise (turning 50, ya'know) and so he's been a bit achy and wishing the bed was softer. I'm trying to find a way to make it softer. But the whole "how to put a sheet on it without messing up the comfort of the bed because it's so fat now" thing has me flummoxed. I can't bring it in and work with it because that would spoil the surprise. THis store has fitted sheets with up to 25" pockets. or do it yourself