Sydney’s Best Mattress: Quality, Comfort, Innovation

Why Choosing the Right Mattress Matters

If you’re looking for a mattress in Sydney, understanding what makes a great mattress truly important. Quality materials and exceptional customer service are key components.

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Understanding Mattress Materials

99% of mattress problems come from one place: plastic. Also, 99% of mattresses sold are made of plastic. Plastic fabric, plastic foam. That cooling gel? That’s plastic. Memory foam? Pure plastic. Mattress sales are designed to stop the important questions from being asked, like “What is it made of?”

The Problem with Plastic in Mattresses

Plastic is cheap and easy to obtain, which is why most manufacturers use it. However, it’s also responsible for that dip in your last mattress. That Tempur mattress you got at a 50% off sale? That’s 80kgs of plastic. If you want to figure out what a good mattress is, look at how much plastic it has in it.

The Solution: Quality Mattress Materials

My mattresses are made with springs and latex, ensuring durability and comfort. I also offer a cheaper option that uses two smaller layers of plastic for customers who prefer the modular design and standard foam. This is the Cooper mattress.

You can unzip it, swap the interior layers, make it firmer/softer, and change the springs. Learn more about the adjustment process here. Visit our showroom/factory to see for yourself. If I can’t solve your problem, I’ll give you your money back. More about returns here.

Crafting High-Quality Mattresses

Making our mattresses involves balancing spring tension, foam density, quilting materials, and your personal preferences. If any of these are off-balance, you will have sub-optimal alignment while you sleep.

Imagine laying in a hammock on your side. Your hips shouldn’t be lower than the rest of your body. These are the problems I solve every day with our high-quality mattresses.

Always Improving Our Mattresses

Having a factory ensures that I understand every component that goes into our products. Being able to talk to all my customers in the same building allows for a lot of flexibility with our mattress development.

I’m always making small tweaks to the mattresses; they’re in a constant state of development. I believe if there’s a 1% chance of making our mattresses better, I’m doing it!

Here is a typical quote from a mattress website. You’ll see the same thing on almost every mattress website.   “Escape overheating with our next-gen mattress. Enjoy superior airflow, maximum breathability, and the luxurious sensation of weightless relaxation. Our Graphite Memory Foam cradles your body while expertly wicking away heat, ensuring a blissfully relaxed night’s sleep.”   There is zero helpful information here. But I’ll break it down regardless. Enjoy superior airflow – this is nonsense Maximum breathability – They said the same thing twice: nonsense Graphite Memory Foam – Throw some colour in the foam mix and brand it as “graphite”.    I’d rather not analyze this further because it’s clear that all these companies are trying to set themselves apart from the competition by using different terms to describe their foam. Here’s how it works: the factory in China emails their clients and says, “Hey, we have this new material for your mattress. It’s this black-coloured foam, and we call it ‘graphite foam.’ It will look great in the pictures and make you stand out from your competitors.” The mattress company responds, “That sounds great; make me a new version of my mattress, and I’ll increase the price.” It’s just another marketing story to sell cheap plastic foam.     The companies that do this aren’t evil or anything like that. They are the norm. They are just following their peers in the industry. Almost all of them do the same thing.    On this page, I’m only showing you that these marketing stories are distracting you from actually solving your mattress problem.   Here are the three types of foam and their subtypes

Common Mattress Foam Types

• Memory foam: With varying densities/firmnesses
• Polyfoam: With varying densities/firmnesses
• Latex Foam:
  • 95% natural, 3-5% stuff that helps it set
  • 30% natural, 70% plastic (cheap Chinese latex, standard in bed in a box)

Additional Notes: There is other stuff in the world, but these four categories cover what I see when I open mattresses. I sometimes see good latex in some retail models. It usually starts appearing in 5cm thicknesses in models over $3000. It usually has another 5cm of polyfoam underneath it, though. The bed in a box is always Chinese latex, which may be more durable than polyfoam. I’m not sure; I don’t trust it.

To explain mattress dipping let me write a story about Tim.

Tim bought a new mattress. It has springs and memory foam. It’s a decent quality mattress.

After 7 years Tim finds the following about his mattress.

weight – 100kgs, time slept on – 4 years, Major sagging in mattress.

However this information would change when you change the bodyweight of the person. And may look something more like this

weight – 70kgs, time slept on – 8 years, no deterioration.

The more your body weight is, the less time the memory foam will last. When I bring back mattresses from couples to the factory we see some extreme differences in dipping. For example a common occurrence is the female may be 65kg, the male 95 kgs. They didn’t rotate their mattress, the males side is completely caved in, the females side is fine.

Dipping is strongly related to bodyweight. My rule of thumb to understand the scale of this would be something like the following.

For the sake of argument, and to make things simple, lets take the sleep republic config.

bodyweight | time till foam around hips loses support
60kg | 11 years
70kg | 8 years
80kg | 6 years
90kg | 5 years
100kg| 4 years

for every 10kg you weigh less, the time that the foams (ability to conform) lasts will increase substantially. This is why sometimes it’s useless information when someone says a mattress doesn’t sag. A mattress will have a different lifespan depending on the bodyweight of the person laying on it.

I believe that at the bodyweight of 100kgs, extra attention needs to be paid to the type of foam as this will be the part that you will run into problems with the quickest.

There is a very real advantage to buying a mattress that you can lay on first. People may think “well, I won’t know what it really feels like until I sleep on it for a few weeks”. This is true, however it’s also true that you’ll have a much better idea if you’re in the right ballpark by testing it first.

I like the analogy of throwing darts here.

Buying a mattress online is like trying to hit a bullseye with the lights off. You’d be lucky to hit the board. How can you get a good one when “good” means “it fits” and “what fits” is different for everyone.

When testing a mattress first in a showrooom, you might still be terrible at choosing a mattress, but it’s like turning the lights on before throwing the dart. You might hit a bullseye, you might not hit a bullseye, but you’ll have a much better chance of at least hitting the board.

With my business I take it a step further, I say to people, throw the dart, if you don’t hit the bullseye, walk to the board, pull out the dart, and keep throwing until you hit the bullseye. I do that by being able to swap out springs and foam until it’s right.

I also have a weight guide which uses all the data form all of our past clients which predicts which mattress you will most likely end up on by using your bodyweight. We have found this to be the best indicator of how a mattress will feel to you.

You see, it’s really important to be able to re throw the dart, when hitting a bullseye means increasing your quality of life by having a mattress that fits you correctly.

You want a company that allows you to re throw the dart. My advice when buying a mattress is try local first, and try smaller independent factories first. If they have a zipper, so you can adjust the layers, that ‘s the best. You can adjsut your office chair, why can’t you adjust your mattress. I’d argue it’s as important or more important to adjust a mattress, than an office chair. It should be a minimum requirement.

Talk to them, ask them about what they would recommend for someone of your weight, they would know. They do it all day everyday. It’s in their best interest to get it right. Ask them what happens when if it’s too firm/soft. Also, if it has a zip, you can probably change out the foam when it wears out. Massive savings.

And trust me, it really is like throwing darts. anyone that thinks mattresses are either soft, medium, or firm, couldn’t be further from the truth.

In my opinion, and in my experience, yes. Is this measurable? probably not. Very simply, us humans have different metabolic rates which can determine our body temperature. Our normal range is 36.5–37.5 °C. If you are 0.5 deg celcius above this range (38 degress celcius) this is in the range of a fever.

This is why it’s difficult to give scientific evidence of one foam being “cooler” than another. The differences are small, and they occur over a long time, also the body is responding to the temperatures at the same time which makes it more difficult.

The other problem is, a large percentage of people can sleep on any mattress and not sleep hot. So they don’t need to worry. So I guess this message is aimed only at people who struggle to find a mattress that does not heat them up.

So what definitive evidence is there that latex is cooler than other foams? As far as I know, there is none. The only scientific evidence I can find is that higher densities of foam and thicker pieces of foam are absorbing more bodyheat than less thick pieces. The more stuff, the more heat.

Let’s say I get three pocketspring units. And I got the 3 (only) foams of roughly the same density. In my experience, this is what I would say the result is.

pocketspring with 5cm latex – coolest
pocketspring with 5cm poly foam – next coolest
pocketspring with 5cm memory foam – least coolest

Now this gets muddled up when you add differing thicknesses and different layering, for example, an all latex mattress may sleep hotter than a pocketspring with memory foam. And about a billion other variations of this makes things very hard to comment on.

However, out the the two below, the 7cm would be hotter than the 5cm.

pocketspring with 5cm poly foam
pocketspring with 7cm poly foam

I think foam amount is the greater predictor of heat and it trumps everything else. Focus on that first. All other things being equal, latex in my opinion will be the cooler foam. As long as it’s not thicker.