Mattress Review

I may tell you at the outset that I’m not a salesman of some company or a store selling mattresses. I’m just a consumer and like all of you I like have a good night’s sleep on a comfortable mattress.

I shall not hesitate to acknowledge that I was perhaps as apprehensive of buying a memory foam mattress as anybody else. That was because I had often heard users complaining that memory foam would get too warmed up to be comfortable or it would hurt your back. Yet, I decided to give it a try and all my apprehensions vanished in thin air, and I want to share my experiences with you.

The idea of purchasing a new mattress occurred to me soon after having used a Dormia mattress at a friend’s place. All these years I have been sleeping on a Sealy Posturepedic, as I developed a liking for it but sleeping on a memory foam mattress was a different experience altogether.

The very night of having used it, I realized how comfortable the new kind of bed was! Just as I lay down on the bed and prepared to sleep, my body could sense the difference. As I tend sleeping on my sides, I realized that the foam soon curved in to match the curves of my body to support my hips, sides and thus relieved pressure from my lower back. In the beginning the bed was cool, just as you feel the underside of a pillow. But it didn’t take long for the mattress to start giving a feeling of warmth due the transfer of heat from my body. No, it did not get hot, just remaining warm from the heat conveyed by my body. It was this mild heat which allowed the foam to conform to the contours of my body. The experience was simply cool!

I decided to buy one for myself. The following week, before shifting to my new dwelling unit, I started looking for the best available foam mattress in the market. I must say it proved quite a challenging job, looking for one that would best suit my requirements and I found that almost all the reputed manufacturers offered a line of memory foam mattresses. The only option of finding the most suitable one was to try different brands.

I visited a local Sleepy’s store in my area. I tried almost all their beds and while the salesman kept going with his sales-talk, I learnt what I needed to know. I learnt that among the memory foam mattresses, Tempurpedic was the leading make that ruled the market, but even their basic model was too expensive and well outside the limits of my budget.

So, I enquired about Dormia, which I had already experienced at my friend’s place. The sales person informed me that Dormia was sold through company’s website and also from their own Dormia retail stores. As there was no store around my area, I decided to explore what else the store had in stock and the salesman prompted me to try Miralux mattress, the house brand of Sleepy’s, and Posturetemp that is produced by the same manufacturer that makes the Dormia bed. Posturetemp is reportedly manufactured totally for Sleepy’s. Both the mattresses looked equally good to me, comparing to what I had experienced at the house of my friend.

After a prolonged thought and discussion with the salesman, I decided to go for the Posturetemp Serenade foam mattress and don’t regret my decision. Leave aside the marketing hype, as a user I feel that this memory foam mattress has truly changed my sleeping cycle for better. I hardly toss and turn in my bed and when I wake up the next morning I feel very refreshed. There has been no problem with getting adjusted to Dormia mattress. I don’t wake up with so much of stiffness in my lower back in the mornings. All these positive features have been prompting me to share my experiences with others. I’m quite certain that if you change over to memory foam mattress, it will be a change for good. It’s waiting for you try and you won’t ever regret your decision.

For quite sometime now Ergoflex has earned the reputation as a manufacturer of one of the best memory foam providers with products that offer good value for your money. The company claims to offer the experiences of using high quality foam at affordable prices.

Opening and Installation

The Ergoflex is delivered as vacuum packed and the first impression that you get is that of an extraordinarily small box, almost cylindrical in shape, but as you open it up, it assumes it full dimensions and agreeably heavy weight in a matter of about an hour.

It will not be wrong to categorize the Ergoflex as ‘medium to hard’ as it is certainly not among the very rigid foams that we have known, but at the same time it’s a lot more supportive than many of the softer verities available in the present market today. To some extent this firmness facilitates body-shaping without getting in way of movements or giving a ‘spongy’ feeling. Now, that feature is often missing in many of the softer varieties.

Sleeping on an Ergoflex

Having slept on it for one night, we realized that the performance of memory foam provided by Ergoflex was first class. It offered uniform support to body, particularly the lower back and other main pressure points like shoulders and hips. It didn’t take long to get a relaxed position for sleeping and getting up the next morning brought a feeling of well rested. Now, that’s not bad as a first night’s experience on a new mattress!

One often comes across the common complaint associated with the use of memory foam mattresses that they tend to get overheated while one is sleeping. Ergoflex could successfully overcome that limitation by including a “cool sleep airflow system’ in their mattresses. That description may sound to be a bit too technical, but as a matter of fact it’s just a layer of corrugated material, which keeps the mattress ventilated. It works really well! Well, the mattress does get a bit warmer than an average traditional pocket-spring type, but it doesn’t reach the level of being uncomfortable and compares very well against many of the cheaper or even more expensive options that one gets.

Ergoflex vs Tempur

You may want to know how the Ergoflex measures against Tempur! Normally, we don’t like to make such comparisons, but considering the claims that Ergoflex makes for marketing of its products and being aware that some of you might have plans to buy a new mattress, here are our observations:

As far as the performance of memory foam is concerned we would say that Tempur has a slight edge here, though the difference is not very significant. Deluxe from Tempur is a bit softer, whereas the Original is somewhat firmer, so the Ergoflex mattress falls in the middle and that may prove to be of benefit for many users. Though Ergoflex compares its products feature-by-feature with Tempur, we would sum up by saying that the differences are very nominal with a lot many similarities. However, considering the steep difference in prices of the two, we would not hesitate to recommend the Ergoflex bed.