You may have heard the radio commercials or seen the print ads that say, “Get a Latex Mattress! In a box! Shipped right to your house! It’s as easy as 1, 2, 3!” Sounds great, right? But be careful, not all mattresses marketed as latex are actually just latex. Many of them are synthetic latex,…
Let’s Compare latex foams. Talalay and Dunlop are each a manufacturing process for creating latex mattress cores. Dunlop and Talalay can be layers, toppers and pillows too. They are not types of rubber. We want you to make that distinction. Don’t make a potentially costly decision. Calling latex Dunlop or Talalay does not give any…
My husband and I have been in the business of both selling and producing mattresses and related products for 47 years. Our industry has gone the route of the appliance industry. We used to purchase refrigerators that lasted beyond the desire to have harvest gold or avocado green! A few years ago, I purchased a…
People ask us about how to deal with bed bugs. Though, it is not our expertise, we have done a lot of research to help others dealing with the problem. Once you’ve come to the realization that you are in fact dealing with bed bugs, now you’ve got to decide how you’re going to tackle…
A mattress material that has been hyped quite a bit lately is gel. It can be used as a layer, or as an infused foam. Though this is been presented as a revolutionary advancement in memory foam “technology”, gel has been used in mattresses for decades. I was surprised to see that this was being…
Seattle has a problem with mattresses dumped at transfer stations. A summit was held to explore solutions. As the “Bed in a Box” trend has grown, so has the problem. The average ton of mattress waste takes up 19 times the volume of regular garbage. These large lightweight items make for innumerable issues in managing…