Mattress Forum

Only a couple of weeks.  I aired it out about a day and put it on top the Sleepez and covered it all with the Dormier mattress protector.  I don't notice any odor at all now.  It had very little when I got it.  Maybe I'm not as sensitive to latex as you but if there was a smell my wife would be complaining and she's not.  Maybe I got lucky or you got a "bad" one?

Yeah, I must have got a bad one.  Mine is also under a Dormeir protector but I can still smell it.  I experimented with a Flobeds a few years ago and the faint latex smell didn't bother me then so I suspect this SLAB piece is an anomaly.  Wish now that I had returned it when I still could have.

You're just going to have to make your best guess and go for it. I would get 1" and then from that if you need another 1" you can decide to go with another of the one you got or a softer or firmer one.

As for memory foam I am another one who has sworn off of it. I have tried many different densities and thicknesses and even when it works for me, it does not work for long. I've never had a configuration including memory foam that worked for more than a few weeks. It always softens up too much, even the 5lb stuff. I've never tried the 8lb but I have to be skeptical based on the 3,4 and 5lb stuff I've used again and again with lousy results. That said, my wife has used 1" "fake" Venus (5lb) memory foam with success. But I think latex is the smarter way to go.