If you are considering a Tempur-pedic mattress or bedding product, or are a current owner of one of their products, please read the notice below about a class-action lawsuit and a law firm's claim of potential formaldehyde exposure from these products. If you are currently shopping for a new mattress or currently have a name-brand pillow-top mattress that is developing body impressions, this may be the most important article you will ever read. Welcome to The Mattress Morgue. There you are, standing in a mattress chain store looking at a sea of flat white rectangles. All of the big name-brand mattresses with their colorful displays, labeled with exquisite sounding names like “European Serenity Plush”, and all different price ranges from $300.00 to over $3000.00. You try a few out and they are feel great – any mattress is probably going to feel better than the one you have at home. The more expensive they are, the plusher they feel so you probably assume they are made from higher quality materials and will last longer to justify the higher price.
Unfortunately, you are about to become a victim of what we feel is the biggest scam in the mattress industry – the pillow-top mattress. This is why I have created The Mattress Morgue. We have been selling organic and specialty sleep mattresses since 2005 and we have hauled away hundreds of old mattresses. The idea behind The Mattress Morgue starting when a customer came into our store needing to replace their existing mattress. This mattress was high-end name-brand 15″ pillow-top that was only three years old and cost over $3000.00. They felt really burned by this name-brand manufacturer and wanted to buy an organic latex mattress that was customizable and would last for many years. When we arrived to deliver their new Savvy Rest Organic mattress, there it was – a massive 15" thick King-size pillow-top mattress with two significant body impressions. I had seen the “Mattress Morgue” pictures on the Savvy Rest website so I just had to find out – what was inside this $3000.00 mattress that failed in three years?
So I took my “cadaver” and cut it open – it is the actual mattress in the picture above. Inside this $3000.00 mattress was a simple 6″ innerspring with 9″ of layers of cheap polyurethane foam. This mattress had no more than $200.00 worth of materials inside. We have the foam from this mattress at our store in a bag that you can see in person. I became obsessed (like “Dexter” from the Showtime series, just without the blood!) and started doing “autopsies” on numerous mattresses, mostly pillow-tops, of all shapes, brands and different thicknesses. Here is the scary part – they were all made practically the same way. You can see from our “autopsy” photos that all of them are just innersprings, a layer of resinated fiber clippings pad on top of the springs, then layers of cheap polyurethane foam. These components are required to be listed on the white law label at one end of the mattress – take a look at yours. To make a mattress plusher, and more expensive, these name-brand manufacturers just add another layer of foam.
For every $5.00-$10.00 layer of foam, the retail price of the mattress typically goes up about $200-$300.00. You can look at these photos and make your own decision but before you buy a pillow-top mattress, read the other articles we will be posting on this site soon – they will be about the “planned obsolescence” of name-brand mattresses. The top layer of any mattress is eventually going to develop some degree of a body impression so our advice to you is if you really want a pillow-top type of mattress, we recommend that you choose either a mattress with a zippered top that allows you to change the comfort and/or replace the foam or latex with a new layer OR purchase a mattress with a separate removable and replaceable topper. These are the type of mattresses we have at The Healthy Bed Store. Thanks for reading this post and make sure you read the rest of the series. It will help you understand more about those “white rectangles” and what do if you currently have a body impression warranty issue.
Browse the offerings from Serta Bedding here, Then call us at 208 233-1099 for a custom price quote! As an Authorized Serta Bedding Retailer Maple Street Sit ‘N Sleep can bring you anything you desire, in any of the available color and fabric combinations.Serta crib mattresses receive very good crib mattress ratings. They are some of the best crib mattresses available and have the quality and safety you can trust for your baby. Baby mattresses are even more difficult to choose than your own mattresses, so it's good that a trusted brand like Serta actually has some really great offers for parents looking for crib mattresses. The following are three popular Serta baby mattresses that scored well in crib mattress reviews. Each one is backed by Serta's world-class reliability and guarantee, which really says a lot considering that Serta is the mind behind several winning mattress collections. Serta offers some special technologies to ensure the safety and ease of use of their special baby mattresses.
If you are looking for a reliable and durable Serta crib mattress and aren't concerned with getting a completely organic crib mattress, then the Serta NightStar crib mattress is definitely the best place to start your search. The NightStar gets the highest crib mattress reviews of any baby mattress offered by Serta. It is often listed among the best crib mattresses and is part of most top lists. The NightStar is a natural crib mattress with an organic top layer, but the mattress itself cannot be considered completely organic since all its fill layers are not organic. Take note, however, that this is a firm baby mattress, which is good since most experts recommend that babies should have firmer mattresses, not only for safety but for proper support. The Nightstar Extra Firm has a coil and polyester construction that makes sure the mattress surface is firm, and the perimeter of the mattress is lined with border wire to keep your baby from sliding or falling off. The Serta Perfect Balance Organic crib mattress is an excellent offer from Serta for parents looking for an organic, all natural crib mattress for a more eco-friendly choice.
There are plenty of reasons why an organic choice is better and makes the safest crib mattress. Organic crib mattresses use no chemicals. Babies tend to be very sensitive to chemicals and can easily get irritated or allergic to harsh chemicals. Organic materials, on the other hand, are perfectly safe for them. The mattress is known to fall under Serta's socially conscious Close to Nature program. This also falls under the innerspring category since it uses Serta's Continuous Innerspring Coil system. Aside from all these features, these mattresses ship with special crib mattress covers that: Another excellent firm crib mattress is the Tranquility, a more high end option priced at about $100. The mattress has a very unique blending of materials. For support, it uses heavy gauge coils, border wires in full perimeter, and special edge supports. This is supported by an additional layer made of orthoinsulated polyester fibers. For comfort, it uses a cotton blend top layer.