Visco Elastic Memory Foam Mattress – Make Your Own
Yes, you can put together your own quality visco elastic memory foam mattress and save thousands of dollars. I did it, you can to. The power and convenience of the Internet has put wholesalers willing to sell to consumers right at your fingertips. Follow this link to one of these wholesalers, Foam Factory Inc.. A search on the Internet will yield many more for you to choose from.
A very basic memory foam mattress consists of just two layers. The bottom conventional high IFD foam layer for support and at least 3 inches of high density memory foam for the top layer. This is the absolute minimum you need for a memory foam mattress if you are on the tightest budget.
Memory Foam Mattress – component layers
A higher quality memory foam mattress will contain multiple conventional foam layers as well as multiple memory foam layers.
The queen size mattress I put together has four layers and cost only about $500, with free shipping for any order over $100. So it was quite a deal. A similar mattress at a retail store would have easily cost between $1,000 – $2,000!
The only work I had to do was to trim the two bottom conventional foam layers to the correct dimemsions for a queen size mattress, which is 80″x60″. Conventional foam, as well as memory foam, is easy to cut. The easiest and cleanest way is to mark the dimensions with a marker and then use a serrated bread knife. Just use a sawing action with the bread knife. The memory foam layers I purchased did not need to be trimmed.
Now, the difference between this mattress I put together and a similar one purchased at a retail store is that the mattress at the retail store may have all the layers glued together. Don’t worry about this. Once you place the layers together they do not slip, especially if you put a single-zip up cover around them all which is what I recommend.
Prices shown below were the current prices at the time I built my memory foam bed in January, 2008. This mattress has held up very well so far with no signs of sagging anywhere.
memory foam mattress layers
Below is my finished 11 1/2 inch thick Memory Foam Bed.
Finished memory foam mattress
Basic Memory Foam Mattress
For the tightest budget, at the very minimum a memory foam bed should consist of the following.
basic memory foam mattress
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