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  • Springs or Foam? What do you sleep on?
  • huggis
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    Looking to buy a new mattress – seems to be a dazzling range of choices with memory foam, foam and springs or good old fashioned springs to choose from…. anyone bought a bed recently and have any opinions…..??

    loddrik
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    Springs all the way, buy the best mattress you can afford, you won't regret it!!

    bassspine
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    Hohum
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    Springs at home, but I have slept on memory foam at the in-laws.

    Not sure which I prefer to be honest!

    mmb
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    memory foam top with springs very comfy but not cheap.

    davcow
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    Full memory foam for me.

    jon1973
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    Ours has springs with a think layer of memory foam on top. Was expensive, but worth every penny.

    MrWoppit
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    One of these:

    http://www.hypnos.ltd.uk/

    Just off there now, in fact.

    Sweet dreams.

    Cougar
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    I don't get on with memory foam. Figure, it's fine for the people who lie in the same position all night.

    Best advice I can give is, go to loads of showrooms and try them all out. You're making a purchase that you're going to spend a third of your life using, it's worth spending the time lounging around on a few first.

    ton
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    springs topped with memory foam.

    and boy is it comfy.

    Elfinsafety
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    Dried out mouldy remnants of a Chinese, vomit, copy of the Star, few flattened lager cans and various assorted bodily fluids, not all my own. Comfy.

    sweepy
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    I find memory foam way too hot, Got an aerobed for guests but its just so comfortable that I use it all the time now.

    U31
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    The Mrs?

    Just a thought! 😀

    OmarLittle
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    Springs

    Had a memory foam for a bit but i found it too hot. Plus it was really crap for shagging on – kept on having to use the floor instead to get a bit of purchase instead of sinking in!

    jahwomble
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    Pocket springs with a top layer of memory foam.

    barnsleymitch
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    My mates sofa. That, and the bitter memories of the 1984 strike 😛

    matthew_h
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    Pocket sprung, none of this foam stuff.

    AlasdairMc
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    Pocket sprung is definitely the way to go.

    DM52
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    memory foam. ZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

    Elfinsafety
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    Plus it was really crap for shagging on – kept on having to use the floor instead to get a bit of purchase instead of sinking in!

    I understand there are 'instructional' videos which can be found on the internet which may assist you in developing new techniques to overcome this problem.

    I know not where to find such things however.

    Springs can sometimes fail suddenly during 'active' use.

    fwb2006
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    Hypnos mattresses all the way.

    busydog
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    We have had springs, air (Select Comfort) and now have a memory foam and it is, from our perspective, the best mattress ever. Not cheap, but ours is 5 years old and not even the slightest sign of an indentation and it really does conform to your body. We do have a sheeps-wool mattress pad which only makes it better. Damn heavy to move around, but you don't really ever need to turn them.

    coffeeking
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    I've slept on all but foam-only. Much prefer pocket springs with 75mm mem foam, but boy is it expensive in superking! Currently trying to decide between pocket/foam and all foam.

    I thought I moved about a lot in bed but actually found that was only because I was never quite comfy, though I'd have sworn I was, sleeping on a decent mem foam bed I usually wake up in the same position I went to sleep.

    Onzadog
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    Pocket sprung for me. Foam is too warm and just does breath enough. We did a bit of research and found that this idea of a firm mattress being better for your back isn't true if you have a healthy back so we treated ourselves to a soft mattress. Lovely. We've even nicknamed the bed, "the 'mallow".

    However, the only issue with such a soft mattress is that it can impact on other activities.

    TheWhyteFox
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    Memory foam…sleep like a log night after night.

    petrieboy
    Full Member

    Pocket sprung with memory foam topper. Not too hot, no roll together but quite expensive

    Luminous
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    Individually pocketed springs here.

    Harrison bed, best 1K I ever spent, HIGHLY recommend.

    🙂

    L

    _tom_
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    Springs but I prefer foam since you don't get bits poking you.

    coffeeking
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    We did a bit of research and found that this idea of a firm mattress being better for your back isn't true if you have a healthy back so we treated ourselves to a soft mattress.

    You don't want a "soft" bed at all, you want a bed that is reactive to localised pressure points and absorbs them so that you effectively float. A soft bed will just sag and absorb you (I hate that feeling of sinking into a soft bed) and a rigid one will make your pointy bits dig in, the ideal bed would cradle you like water, applying even pressure all over. This is what springy/foamy beds attempt to do best.

    Surf-Mat
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    Broken glass and nettles for me.

    davidtaylforth
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    I have trouble getting out of bed in the morning so now I sleep on a bed of nails. Once Ive woken up, its the last place I want to be lying.

    I'd recommend one

    It also toughens you up, ready for all the **** backstabbers you come across in life.

    TandemJeremy
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    Futon on a solid base for me. Nice and firm

    backhander
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    http://www.harrisonbeds.co.uk/Home.html

    My nan always said "always buy good shoes and a good bed, because if you're not in one you're in the other"

    Onzadog
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    coffeeking, that pretty much describes the pocket sprung bed we got. We conform nicely to it. Feels like none of it is actually masking contact with you.

    I have a mate with a water bed. He swears by it.

    breatheeasy
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    +1 for Harrison beds.

    They even do mattresses with soft one side for petite Mrs Breathe and a firmer side for lardier me.

    avdave2
    Full Member

    Nails

    huggis
    Free Member

    any one have experience of latex!!!

    edhornby
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    any one have experience of latex!!!

    yeah, spent a few days on a drip having broad spectrum antibiotics after an infection. hospital beds have a layer of plastic (latex would do the same) and I sweated like crazy despite the numerous layers of bedding on top. gross, I stank of sweat

    good quality pocket sprung and rotate them on all planes

    buzz-lightyear
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    I wriggle A LOT and get VERY HOT. Springs.

    nutsnvolks
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    well i have springs at home, but foam in the campervan, i always find i sleep better in the camper but not sure if thats cos i am parked up somewhere nice or if its actually more comfy.

    no help here then 😆

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