Hi LBL,
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I've lurked and searched here and Google for a long time in search of a replacement for our Tempurpedic split king classic and ran across the Christeli website that advertised as well...I'm not even sure anymore. Their website implies that their beds are comparable to Tempurpedic. If you want a Tempurpedic Contour Elite, you'd order the Astoria.
Christeli, like many other memory foam manufactures, will produce comforts that are similar to (comparable) to some of the Tempurpedic models. These aren’t meant to be duplicates or exact matches, but simply a comfort that most people would consider “in the range” of a particular Tempurpedic they might have tested.
The two boxes arrived Friday and I still haven't opened them yet and the company has not responded to my emails. I'm hearing impaired so I hate to talk on the phone.
Email is generally the slowest manner in receiving a response from a company due to the volume many receive, especially over the weekend, so if you’re uncomfortable using a relay service, then I would expect a few days for a response, as Sweet Dreams already noted.
My Tempurpedic mattresses are heavy! Just to change sheets is a chore. I checked and a new Conture Elite would be 80 pounds for a twin XL.
The box with the Christeli Astoria is 48 pounds. I just don't see how this is going to compare to a Tempurpedic. I was expecting to have to use a dolly for the boxes and instead I could pick them up.
Attempting to predict the feel and comfort of a mattress based upon weight is not a reliable manner to make such an assumption. This can only be accomplished through your own personal testing. Mattresses attempting to provide approximate comforts can do so in different manners using different materials, some of which, even including the covering, may feel quite different. Even if a mattress had the same weight, or even more, than the weight of something to which you were comparing it to, it as well would also not be an indicator of a comparable comfort.
All of the foam in the current Tempurpedic Tempur-Cloud Elite “specs out” to about 68 pounds. That is without covering or packaging materials. The specifications are:
2.4" TEMPUR-ES 4.1LB, 2.4" TEMPUR Material 5.3LB, 3" Airflow Base layer 2.0LB, 5" Airflow Base layer 2.0LB.
The Christeli Astoria uses a 3” 5.3 lb memory foam layer on top of a dual comfort polyfoam core. I don’t have the thickness/density of this core (they usually use around a 2 lb density). Most of the weight difference between these two items would be in the Astoria having 1” less of memory foam material, which is quite dense.
Both of these items are using better quality and durable materials.
You certainly can wait to communicate with Cristeli via email before opening your items, but eventually the only manner for you to compare products is by actually lying upon them. Have you tried texting them at 864.373.0242? That may be a more immediate manner in which to communicate.
Phoenix