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Old 10-25-2017, 11:44 PM
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Originally Posted by jnieman View Post
I have put a topper on a firm mattress before and it has not worked out. What happened is you lose the firmness factor. What I have found works better is a thicker mattress pad. I have recently purchased an extra firm mattress and found it was a little too firm and put on the thick mattress pad and it is perfect. No sinking in.
We had the opposite experience of jnieman.
We put a topper on an overly firm mattress, and it made it wonderful.
We had to experiment with the size from 1/2 inches to 3 inches.
For us, the 1 1/2 inches was perfect, with gel beads for cooling.
Each to his own.
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