Mattress Forum

After reading here for a while, I felt pretty sure it was just a single layer of cheap polyurethane foam, laid over the main part of the mattress.  Since it was a EuroTop, it was really easy to just cut with scissors along the "wall" of the pillow top section.  I cut one side only, plus half of one end.  I cut right in the center between the top cord/seam of the pillowtop and also the seam where the pillowtop meets the main bed.  I didn't cut both ends and open it like a suitcase, basically just cut the one long side and then a little ways down one end, because I wanted to minimize the damage to the cover. 

Here is what was AMAZING to me - how effortless it was!!  Anyone who has a pillowtop giving them trouble - don't get rid of the bed.  This was so easy, and I felt very empowered.  I found that the main part of the mattress (under the pillow top layer) had a cover, so I left it sealed up. Then there was a separate compartment where the pillow top foam is, which I had cut open along one side.  In the compartment was a single piece of convoluted foam, fairly flimsy.  It was attached in 6 places by little pieces of plastic to the main part of the mattress.  These are plastic tabs like hold price tags on.  I cut the plastic tabs near the edge I'd cut open, then I sort of slid myself in under the cover to reach the tabs in the middle and the back.  It stunk a lot in between the layers of foam, very much a suffocating foam odor, and it was hard to breathe.  But, it only took a few seconds to cut the plastic tabs.  Then the foam layer just slid right out!   So simple!  I wanted to share this so everyone would know how ridiculously simple it is to remove a flattened down pillow top layer. 

I might add a latex topper in its place, or I might just use the mattress as it is now.  It still has all its foam layers that I didn't dig into, and it has a layer of convoluted foam still bonded to the cover.  But the annoying, thick, pillow layer is gone.  I did love the softness of that pillow top, but it was causing me too much neck pain.  I was thinking I could get sheet suspenders to hold down the one corner of the mattress cover, but the mattress pad holds it in place so I'm not sure it's even needed.