I want to DIY a mattress. Doesn't seem too hard to do. Mattresses are just layers of various materials on top of one another then sealed in a shell, and the various manufacturers will sell their layers online to anyone who wants to buy.Pic related is a recipe someone recommends for a DIY mattress. Price comes out to $1150 after shipping for these parts for a queen, which is way cheaper than comparable mattresses -- the cheapest not total garbage mattress with latex comfort layers that I could find was about $2000.>3" soft natural talalay latex (for comfort)>1" medium natural talalay latex>8" high quality pocket coils (for spinal alignment)>1" firm foam (to protect the coils from the slats)>zipper mattress cover to keep it all togetherAnybody ever heard of someone doing something like this? Seems like a good idea, cut out the gigantic margins that mattress manufacturers bake into their goods, and if anything goes wrong I can just swap out a layer for a replacement or something else instead of dropping another huge stack of cash on a new mattress.
>>2888528foam is expensive, very much so. Might be cheaper for industrial clientsMake yours with hay and cardboard
>>2888530Already priced out the parts -- that 3" layer of natural talalay latex (much higher quality than the garbage foam they put in most mattresses) is only $250. The whole thing comes out to $1150 after shipping if I buy the same parts, which is almost half the price of any other mattress I can find that has latex comfort layers.I really like latex in mattresses, from the few of them I was able to test drive in stores they were incredibly comfy, but I don't trust these manufacturers they literally all have QC issues and shit customer service and I'd rather just deal with it myself. Even if I have to buy extra layers and swap things out to get the balance just right I'd still end up saving money.
>>2888528You can literally buy one for a third of the price if you know where to look. If it feels like shit throw a mattress topper over it. Alternatively get a cheap sleeping mat and one of those cardboard frames or get a futon.
>>2888537Yes, you can buy an awful mattress for cheap and have it last for 3 years. I don't want an awful mattress. If there's anything you should spend good money on it's a mattress, because it directly impacts your health and your daily energy level.
>>2888539If you really believed that you wouldn't build a spring mattress
>>2888551There's nothing wrong with coils. Memory foam isn't suitable as a core layer, only as a comfort layer -- even official memory foam mattresses don't use memory foam as the base/core layer. Polyfoam has the properties necessary to be a core layer, but has absolute shit durability and is only used for this purpose in cheap shit tier memory foam mattresses. The only other material that could be used is firm latex, but latex is expensive especially in the quantity necessary for a core layer.Not all coils are made the same, but high end coils like the one in the OP pic are the best option available short of going to a super pricy 6" layer of firm latex.
mattresses are bad for you
there is, may allah forgive me, a subreddit devoted to building your own mattress from individual sheets. it has all of the information you will need.
Stacks of pool noodles
>>2888528Mattress manufacturers don't have gigantic margins, I don't know where you heard that but it's complete and utter bullshit. You will source materials for at minimum 5x the price mattress companies are able to. I'll bet $100 you won't be happy with the mattress you make in the long term, even if you try to convince yourself it's fine, in a year or two your back will tell you otherwise. There's a reason people walk around mattress stores trying out beds. Maybe you should too.
>>2888555trips of truthlay on the cold hard groundto feel pain is to be alive
>>2888708>You will source materials for at minimum 5x the price mattress companies are able tohttps://diymattress.net/
I made a bed out of pillows and crates when I was younger in my first small share house.Stacked a bunch of crates at the bottom for the base then placed layers of blanket and pillow over it until it was roughly the same level and thick (30cm min).It was absolute dogshit, some of the worst fucking nights sleep I think I had had during that part of my life.
