Apologies if this is the wrong forum - or the entirely wrong site. We’re looking for a new mattress and hybrids look like what we want. But some sources say you don’t need a box spring with one, or even avoid using a box spring with a hybrid mattress. But then, if we do that, won’t the bed be much lower? And what would we do with the frame? I don’t get it. Maybe we shouldn’t have waited 30 years to get a new one. * sigh *
So last time I bought a mattress, I got a Saatva, a generally well-reviewed online-only hybrid (if pricier than some). You’ll see they recommend a foundation + frame and offer two different heights of mattress to suit your needs. Hybrids want foundations, because they just want just firm support, not give like a box spring.
Yeah. In a nutshell, the industry now makes a rigid box device the right size to replace an obsolete box spring.
Get that.
It’s been a couple of years since I researched mattresses, but I don’t remember seeing anything about a foundation, other than a system of slats or something to keep the mattress from falling through the frame (unless you have a platform bed). We have two hybrid mattresses, one a Saatva, and one a Titan.
Very few innerspring mattress manufacturers have true box springs and haven’t for 20+ years. Generally they’ll have a foundation with very rigid “torsion modules.” A torsion module foundation is for all practical purposes a platform whereas a box spring will have significant flex.
If you can figure out what you have you’ll have your answer
The best thing to come out of the waterbed phase was the platform box for beds.
I’ve never seen a mattress that wouldn’t work in a box. You can sit that box on any kind platform, legs or just cinder blocks.
Ours has big pull out drawers that really help with storage.