On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 14:03:43 -0700, Ken Schumm
wrote:

[snip quote]
I was thinking of buying a Tempurpedic but when I asked them what
their 20 year warranty covered they were evasive. They mailed me a
copy of the warranty and it specifically *excludes* any sags in the
foam up to 3/4" deep. Since sagging is about the only thing that can
go wrong with a mattress their warranty is almost worthless.

A foam mattress, which is all a Tempurpedic is (two pieces of foam
really, a 3"-4" or so thick "memory" foam slab on top of a 6" or so
thick urethane foam slab, both of which you can buy elsewhere without
the Tempurpedic name for much less [search Google]) can mildew, rot,
have bugs, have fungus, disintegrate, crumble, harden, and probably a
bunch of other stuff I can't think of right now, aside from just sag,
which foam doesn't really do anyway - it indents, that is over time
foam loses its memory and will not "bounce" back. So that may be what
all the warranty covers. A 3/4" indent isn't much, and in my limited
experience is common with "memory" foam which takes a looooooong time
to bounce back, which seems to be what so many like but is the main
reason I can't stand the stuff. Plain jane urethane's pretty good as a
mattress, though.

Cheers!

--
Luke