Choosing the right mattress is an important part of ensuring that you get a good nights sleep. Abaca has two types of mattress which support you in different ways. Both mattresses are hand made to the highest standard and are thoroughly checked before they leave their workshop. The best way of deciding which mattress you want to buy is to think carefully about what sort of bed you are sleeping on now, and what has prompted you to change.
If you are sleeping on something that’s very soft and has assumed your shape over the years then any change is going to be a shock to the system! Equally, if you have been sleeping on an un-sprung mattress such as a futon you will be accustomed to a very hard un-yielding surface, and again, moving to a mattress with more ‘give’ will initially feel very strange. Your new mattress will have a flat surface and will probably feel completely different to your previous bed to begin with, but will soon have you wondering why on earth you put up with your old bed for so long!
A pocket spring mattress contains lots of small springs which are individually pocketed. Unlike a traditional wire coil spring (called a bonnell unit) pocket springs are not attached to each other and therefore there is far less movement in the mattress than there is in a bonnell unit. It feels denser and more supportive.
Abaca sells two types of pocket unit, either the standard medium to fim mattress we have on our website, or a firmer version which they can also supply to us (please email us for details of this firmer option). If you and your partner are of very un-equal weights then a pocket spring is a good option because there is less likelihood of one person disturbing the other when turning over. A firm mattress is best if you and/or your partner are on the heavy side, likewise, choose a standard if you are fairly light. Unfortunately there are no comparative standards in the mattress industry, one company’s firm mattress will be another company’s extra firm and a third company will call exactly the same spring orthopaedic. ABACA's pocket units contain about a 1,000 springs in the 5’ x 6’6 size and feature ‘butterfly clips’ which support the wire frame giving extra stability.
Latex mattresses are metal free. The absence of springs means that once the mattress is made there is nothing inside that can go wrong. ABACA's latex is an entirely natural product which comes from the rubber tree and the 15cm deep pad within your mattress is soft yet resilient. Your body is cushioned gently by the mattress which allows the pressure points of shoulder, back and hip to ‘give’ while supporting the rest of your body. Sleeping on latex is a completely different experience to sleeping on any kind of sprung mattress. There is absolutely none of the movement that one experiences with springs, all in all it’s a very comfortable experience indeed!
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