Ramona writes:
Hello Pete,
After much fruitless searching I am so happy to have found your site.
Hub and I slept on a Spring Air, king size, continuous coil tight top mattress for 23 years.
We loved it. Getting into bed was such a pleasure!
The mattress was covered with a designated fitted sheet.
On top was a foam topper also covered in a mattress cover and 2 fitted sheets.
In other words, our bodies never made contact with the mattress or even came close.
After 23 years it looked like the day it came out of the bag.
It now has developed butt dents, despite regular rotating, flipping, rotating, flipping.
We were still comfortable, but we were sleeping in our own body dents and if you tried to roll to the edge of the bed, you rolled back into your dent.
The center was high as it tends to be on all king size beds.
Split box springs, with actual springs, underneath.
I decided the bed was finally pooched and we bought a Kingsdown Apex.
It's an individually pocketed coil, tight top, and I hate it. HATE IT!
Wanting to see what was inside the old mattress, I ripped it apart in the living room (probably a bad idea!). The quilted cover, pristine. The inner foam, one flat layer and one egg carton layer, pristine, but had butt dents. (The topper we'd had on top also was worn thin in the middle, butt dents). Then there was that weird, gray felt looking stuff, a section of wire overlay in the middle section of the bed and the continuous coil inner spring. That spring looks dead flat. There are NO visible butt dents in the spring. Question: how do you tell if a spring has lost its oomph? Is there a possibility that I murdered a perfectly good mattress because the foam layers had pooched out? (I feel sick at this thought!)
I have all the components that I took out of that mattress.
I am VERY tempted to try to rebuild it with new foam, less foam, adding the softness as a separate layer on top (topper).
It will look like Frankenstein and be the ugliest mattress ever, but what the heck, it will all be covered with a protector anyway. I am willing to spend money on big slabs of foam to stuff under the upholstery. BUT ... if the springs are crapped out I won't bother.
I keep reading that springs are rarely the problem and if they do pooch out they make you uncomfortable. We were never uncomfortable. Rather we were captured in the low spots.
But did not wake up in pain or misery. I am suspicious that the low spots were a result of 23 years of wear on foam, but NOT a failure of the springs. Is there a way I can test this theory?
Thank you so much for reading this. I hope you are well!
Ramona
Hi Ramona,
You need to be set straight about what you hate about your new Kingsdown mattress.
It isn’t the individually pocketed coils.
It’s the memory foam upholstery, which wasn’t used in your old Spring Air.
And no, I don’t recommend rebuilding your old mattress.
The continuous wire coil system was the least durable of all of the four different coil units that were available 23 years ago.
An individually pocketed coil has been the most popular for the last 100 years.
The continuous coil system was developed by Serta 40 years ago, who later purchased Spring Air to be promoted as their high end line.
Today, Serta still makes a continuous wire mattress…upholstered with memory foam.
You won't like it for the same reason that you don't like the Kingsdown.
Thanks, Pete
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