Latex mattresses · Built in Britain
Most latex mattresses hold two centimetres of latex. Ours hold ten.
A hundred millimetres of latex, in a mattress 260mm deep, over your choice of 1,000 to 3,000 pocket springs. Hand built to order in our own factory. From £799.
The Deepgrove™ core. Pincore channels, formed in the mould, running the full depth.
Drawn to scale
This is the whole difference, in one picture.
A latex hybrid usually means a thin latex layer sitting on a spring unit that does all the work. Both mattresses below are the same total depth. Only one of them is really a latex mattress.
A typical latex hybrid
Twenty millimetres of latex. Enough to put the word on the label. Not enough to change how the bed feels.
The Deepgrove™ core
A hundred millimetres. Deep enough to carry your shoulder and hip on its own, which is what you actually feel when you lie down.
Worth asking every brand on your shortlist the same question: how deep is the latex? It is the one number in this category you can check, and it is the one almost nobody prints. If a page tells you a mattress has latex but not how much, that is usually the answer.
Why depth changes the bed
Three things a hundred millimetres of latex does that twenty cannot.
Air moves through it
Latex is moulded over a bed of pins, so the block is threaded top to bottom with open channels. Air shifts through them every time you move. Closed cell foam has nowhere for that air to go, which is why it holds your heat.
It returns, it does not remember
Memory foam is viscoelastic. It softens with your body heat and keeps the shape you left. Latex is elastic. It comes back level the moment the load lifts, so you turn over on top of the bed rather than climbing out of a hollow.
It holds its height
Latex resists compression set better than any comfort material we work with. In plain terms, it keeps its shape rather than developing a permanent dip. Fifteen year guarantee behind it.
Ten seconds, no sales pitch
Press both. Watch which one lets go.
The difference between elastic and viscoelastic is not a marketing distinction. It is the reason one of these beds is easy to move on at three in the morning and the other is not.
What this mattress does
Deepgrove™ latex
Turning over costs you nothing. Couples notice this most in the second half of the night.
What most of the market does
Memory foam
The hollow persists, so every position change is a small climb. It is also where the heat sits.
Illustrative demonstration of material behaviour, not a laboratory measurement
One decision to make
Same core in all three. Pick how much it pushes back.
The hundred millimetres of latex does not change. The spring count underneath does, and that is what sets the support. If you are caught between two, take the softer one: it is far easier to firm a bed up with a topper than to soften one down.
Identical whichever you choose
The cheapest one is not the lesser one.
Only the spring count changes between the Linden and the Oakridge. Everything below is the same, including the depth of latex, which is the part most brands quietly reduce at the entry price.
- Deepgrove™ core
- 100mm of latex, full sleeping surface, every size
- Total depth
- 260mm in every size
- Cover
- Knitted stretch, tape edged by hand
- Spring unit height
- 120mm in all three
- Made
- Our own factory in the Midlands
- Built to order
- 1 to 2 weeks, nothing sits in a warehouse
- Guarantee
- 15 years
- Money back
- 90 days
- Delivery
- Free drop off. Installation to your room £95
- Sizes
- Single to Emperor. Zip and Link from King up
If we are wrong about you
Ninety nights to decide, not one.
Latex is an unfamiliar feel, and the first night on any new mattress tells you almost nothing. Most people take two or three weeks to settle. So you get three months.
Sleep on it. If the tension is wrong, we collect it.
Every mattress we make carries a 90 day money back guarantee. Not a store credit and not an exchange you have to argue for. If it is not right, we collect it and refund you. Ring us and we will also help you work out whether it is the tension or simply the settling in period.
What owners say
Bought, slept on, reported back.
Who builds these
People come to latex because something else let them down. Usually memory foam, usually heat, and usually they have already spent good money once. So I would rather print every measurement in this mattress and let you decide than sell you an adjective.
Gee Golisz, Founder
Twenty years in furniture manufacturing, and these are cut, layered and hand finished in our own factory in the Midlands. Not imported and badged.
Latex begins as sap from the rubber tree. Tapped, not felled.
Before you decide
The questions we get asked most.
Which one do most people buy?
The Alder. It is the middle tension and the one two people with different preferences can usually both live with. If you have no strong history of liking a soft or firm bed, it is the sensible default, and the 90 days mean it is not a decision you are stuck with.
Is the firm one a better mattress?
No. It is a firmer one. Worth being clear about, because a price ladder implies otherwise and plenty of brands are happy to let it.
All three carry the same 100mm core, the same 260mm depth, the same cover and the same guarantee. The Oakridge costs more because 3,000 pocket springs cost more than 1,000. If you sleep on your side and weigh sixty kilos, the Linden is the better mattress for you, and it is also the cheapest.
I think I might be allergic to latex.
Worth taking seriously and worth putting in proportion. True natural rubber latex allergy affects a small minority of people, and it is usually a reaction to proteins in thin dipped products such as gloves and balloons, where the material sits against skin for long stretches.
Foam latex in a mattress is sealed inside a cover, under your sheets, under a protector. You never touch it. That said, if you have a diagnosed latex allergy we will not try to talk you into this range. Ring us and we will point you elsewhere in the collection.
Will it smell?
Slightly, for a few days. Latex has a faint sweet rubber note when new, not unlike a new pair of trainers. Air the room, leave the bed unmade for a day and it goes.
Will my fitted sheets fit?
The mattress is 26cm deep in every size. Standard fitted sheets usually cope with 26cm, but they can pull off the corners once a protector goes on top. Deep sheets, sold as 30cm or more, are the safer buy.
Will it work on my existing bed frame?
Any standard UK divan, ottoman or slatted frame in the matching size. If you are on slats, look for a gap of under 7cm. Much wider and a deep latex core will bow between them over time.
How long until it arrives?
One to two weeks, because it is built to order rather than pulled off a shelf. Free drop off to your door, or £95 for our own two man team to bring it to your room and place it. We can take your old mattress away for recycling at £70.
Next step
Ten minutes on the phone beats a decade on the wrong tension.
Tell us what you sleep on now and what is going wrong with it. We build these ourselves, so we can tell you honestly which of the three fits, or whether latex is the wrong answer for you.
Or email sales@thesleepco.com