The wife and I are in the market for a new mattress. We have been solely interspring up until now but after a couple of years and $1000 plus we are looking to move to memory foam. It seems that no matter how much you spend you end up with a sagging uncomfortable mattress after a few years.
The Tuft and Needle Mattress gets good reviews on the review sites, and is considerably cheaper. I understand all mattresses will break down, but when they are half the price I wont hesitate to replace.
Has anyone had any experience with T&F before, good or bad?
We just bought a Tuft & Needle mattress a few months ago. Two of them, actually, one for our bed and one for the guest room. I love it; my fiancée likes it but isn’t as crazy about it as I am. (I think because she had a foam mattress in the past, whereas this is my first.) I suggest reading multiple reviews and comparing with competitors like Purple (my grandmother raves about her Purple mattress), Casper (which has some shady business practices but still puts out a quality product), Leesa, and so forth. The Tuft & Needle mattress is reasonably firm, but not overly so. There are also some even cheaper competitors on Amazon.
I also suggest ditching the box spring at the same time; they’re not needed for a foam mattress. We have a simple frame like this, which gives us a good amount of space under the bed.
I bought a Tuft & Needle mattress a little over a year ago. It is comfortable and showing no sign of developing indentations like memory foam.
Note that this is not memory foam; memory foam is something different. I tried memory foam in a hotel and absolutely hated it; made me much too hot and sweaty, and sinking into the mattress felt like being trapped. You don’t sink into a T&N, you sleep on top of it.
Many reviews of other foam mattresses mention chemical smells from outgassing that can take considerable time to go away. The T&N had the smell of “something new” first thing out of the box but not a “chemical” smell; put mattress pad and sheets on and slept on it the first night, no problem, no odor.
If you buy direct from Tuft & Needle they have a 100 night trial period; if you don’t like it they will pick it up at your house and refund all your money – you don’t have to ship it back.
Bought one and returned it the next day. The reason? The Misses and I found it to be hard as hell. I think we may be outliers though. We find most mattresses to be to firm.
FWIW, I have a regular $400-ish “pillowtop” mattress, and on top if it I have a very thick memory foam topper. And on top of that a featherbed. Great combination. I can turn and flip the foam topper whenever I want to and replace it when the time comes. On sunny days I put the featherbed outside, draped over a fence in my backyard, and let the sun and wind have at it all day. Crawling into bed that night–bliss!
I bought the “Sleep Innovations Shiloh 12-inch Memory Foam Mattress” from Amazon when it was on sale (even not on sale, it’s comparatively inexpensive) and I love it, but I am partial to firmer mattresses. My husband is not as fond of it.