Town & Country Mattresses and Beds

I think this is the end of the road in my search in finding a mattress, in more ways than one, if we were travelling via Taxi it would’ve been a huge fare! It was an epic distance to travel for us but after doing my research online for a latex mattress this seemed like a good place to visit… Pooraka here we come!
Town and Country make and sell either 100% pure Dunlop Australian and New Zealand Latex or a combination of Latex and Viscoflex Memory Foam top mattresses. They also have a range of flexible slat base beds to suit. Available in various sizes and can also customise the mattress to suit needs. Slat beds only as they are the best for latex to breathe. And they suggested flexi slats because you can increase or decrease the firmness of the mattress by adjusting the plastic tension system on the slats. Yes this sounds like a good place to go.
We were the only customers in the store and we had the salesman’s absolute attention. He was really quite good as he discussed with us the benefits of memory foam and pure latex and advised not all latex was created equal. An interesting point he mentioned was the fact that when the latex mattress layers are bound together as two separate layers stuck together, you don’t get as hot as because the two negate each other when you’re sleeping on it. Short of buying one, I don’t know if I can believe this as it’s contrary to what every other bedding place says, but then again none of the others’ sold pure latex mattress, there’s other ‘ingredients’ in the mix of the layer composition. Grrr.
We found the prices to be on par with another bedding place we visited, so it was no great saving but on the other hand Town and Country deal with Dunlop an Australian Latex registered as Latex Gold, compared to the imported Latex from Thailand alot of the other stores deal with. We could also have a bottom layer of firm latex and the top layer as memory foam, whereas at the other stores we have to select from their named range only… and it’s much more expensive, in fact double at some places. And again it’s really tricky as each store has their own range manufactured to their specifications, so there is no way to compare apples to apples!
To be sure we went back to Forty Winks Mile End, as it was my first port of call on my bed adventure and wanted to compare the memory foam Tempur mattress, which was the one I got steered towards in the first place, but it’s mega expensive — despite the current sale.
My hubby doesn’t like latex or memory foam as it was for my benefit he persisted in coming and he loves me (awww) so the option is clear… two separate mattresses on the one base which will give us a King size bed, or two long singles on individual bases, which equates to a King size — plus we can push them apart when we have a tiff, he, he, he!
So in short, what we’ve learnt from this experience and to suit our needs, it’s the above option. Sure it would be cheaper to buy the one mattress as a whole, but it won’t meet individual needs, so it’s the next best thing despite costing more (but not a great deal), for a bed that should last over 10 — 15 years… a small price to pay for spending half your lifetime in bed, may aswell be comfortable.