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I am a big fan of cheap PU eggcrates. Yes latex is nicer but for bang for the buck - making a hotel bed sleepable or doing a miracle cure on a friend's too hard mattress or just doing a test run to see if a softer foam will help - a foam eggcrate is hard to beat. That said, I went shopping the other day for a king sized eggcrate to use in a project. Started at my usual sources, Target and Pennys. Nothing but some viscous foam at Pennys and a few twin eggcrates at Target, but these were thin and just ridged rather than having the true eggcrate nubbles. Next to Walmart - some really cheap looking eggcrates with 1/4" of really dubious looking "memory foam" bonded to it. Finished up with Kohls, Sears and Marshalls - lot of overpriced Chinese memory foam, but no plain ol' eggcrates. Checked the same vendors online sites just in case the stores I visited were just out, and couldn't find anything more. So it appears the good old foam eggcrate may be a thing of the past, driven off the topper market by low end memory foam. The convoluted eggcrate foam still seems available from specialty foam suppliers, but the cost by the time you get it cut and shipped is several times the cost I used to pay for a PU topper off the shelf at Target etc, which makes it much less of a bargain.
So if anyone knows where I can find decent king egg crate toppers please let me know. Wish I had stocked up on 3 or 4 kings, just to have them on hand! |
| I think I saw some of those at Ross and/or TJMaxx just this past weekend. Maybe not as large as a King size, though. |
| Try your local fabric or upholstery shop. I know my local JoAnn's (fabric store) as well as another local fabric store carries it. Or look in your yellow pages for foam. Usually there are reasonably local foam shops. |
| Try foamdistributing.com--cheaper stuff, owned by foambymail.com. I think the foam tends to be about 20% cheaper. |
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I wish I hadn't thrown out my old eggcrate toppers from years back, they don't make them like that anymore. I got in a throwing out mood one day, and thought I would not use those anymore, duh. I tried several in the last year, Target was so flat it never expanded. Then one at BedBath & Beyond, and that is in the trash now. I wonder if Ross is just as bad as the other ones. If you find a good quality one please post a link here |
| I thought I saw some on Overstock.com My girls had one on their bed, but decided they want latex, so I cut it in half and gave it to the boys, they love it,lol. they are not as picky as the girls. I think I got it at either Kmart or Walmart. I bet those don't offgas like memory foam. memory foam is bad! |
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Like electracat said, try foamdistributing.com. Go to http://www.foamdistributing.com/products/products.html and click on one of the four types of eggrate foam they offer (under the heading Conventional Eggcrate). This foam only comes in full sheets of 82" x 76". Here are the specs for each type of foam: Feel Type Density IFD(Compression) Soft Super Soft Foam 1.2 12 Medium Poly Foam 1.5 36 Medium HD36-Regular 1.8 35 Firm Lux-Regular 1.8 50 You might also try foambymail.com. They actually carry the eggrate foam in standard mattress sizes except for Twin XL or Cal King. Go to http://www.foambymail.com/EggCrateTopper.html and click on the size your looking for. If your looking for a very high quality medium or firm eggrate foam, they have it (note the much higher density of their HD36 and Lux foams). Here are the specs for each type of foam, with differences from foamdistributing.com's product highlighted in bold: Feel Type Density IFD(Compression) Soft Super Soft Foam 1.2 12 Medium Poly Foam 1.3 36 Medium HD36-Regular 2.8 36 Firm Lux-Regular 2.8 50 |