Sealy Posturepedic Pro Highland Manor   Review

This Firm mattress is best suited for average-weight people who get the best balance of support and pressure relief, making it a comfortable option whether you sleep on your back, stomach, or side. Heavier individuals get even better pressure relief when side sleeping, but worse support, so it's best suited for side or combination sleepers in that weight category. It's not conforming enough for lighter side sleepers, but it offers good support, making it well-suited for back or stomach sleeping.

The quilted layer is quite thick, especially in the lumbar area, where an additional strip of memory foam adds an extra 1.0 cm of height. This layer lets you sink in quite deeply, depending on your weight, creates an enveloping feel, and adds pressure relief. The extra material in the lumbar area may help fill in the space under your lower back if you're a back sleeper. The transition layer below also adds pressure relief if you fully compress the quilted layer above it and helps distribute your weight over the spring layer.

The support layer includes three different types of pocket coils. The support layer is made up of 15-gauge pocket coils, with additional 17-gauge coils placed between every second row of support coils in the lumbar area. The more densely packed springs in the center of the mattress help give the mattress a much firmer feel in the lumbar area versus at the head or foot. Small, tightly wound 16-gauge coils along each side provide edge support.

None of the foam in the mattress is dense enough to be considered good quality. The quilted layer contains lower-density polyfoam (20 kg/m³ or 1.2 lb/cu.ft.) and lower-density memory foam (40 kg/m³ or 2.5 lb/cu.ft.). The transition layer is made of denser polyfoam, but it still doesn't quite meet the standard for good-quality foam. These foam layers make the mattress prone to forming impressions and indentations sooner than mattresses that include denser, higher-quality foams.

The quilted layer includes an upper layer of memory foam, followed by a polyfoam layer, and another layer of memory foam in the lumbar region. The transition layer underneath is made of polyfoam.

This mattress's body conformity performance depends on your weight. As you might expect from a Firm mattress, it won't let lighter individuals sink in enough for comfortable side sleeping. It performs decently for average-weight people, but a more conforming mattress would be ideal for side sleepers in that category. However, it offers impressive body conformity for heavier individuals, who will sink in more.

It has a very enveloping feel. The comfort layers allow a lot of sinking and are highly contouring, so the sleeping surface has a hugging, pillowy feel.

This mattress offers very good support for lighter people and good support for average-weight people, so it'll keep your spine well-aligned when you sleep on your back or stomach. It's not quite as supportive for heavier people. While it's decently supportive, your spine will bend a little more, so it's well-suited for combination sleepers but less for dedicated back or stomach sleepers.

It offers very good cooling overall, and unless you typically sleep hot, it'll maintain a comfortable feel over eight hours. However, unlike some mattresses, it feels a bit stuffy when you first get into bed, so it's not ideal if you're a hot sleeper and want a mattress that feels cool as you're falling asleep.

This mattress has great motion isolation. Smaller movements aren't noticeable. Bigger ones are noticeable, but only near the source, so when your partner rolls over, you'll feel it in the middle of the mattress, but not around your head. Motion dissipates very quickly, which also makes it less noticeable.

The sleeping surface responds slowly when you move. Since it also molds around you closely, it has a hugging feel that you might find constricting, especially if you move around a lot in your sleep.

The pocket coil support layer is bouncy and helps give the mattress its springy feel despite some unbouncy comfort layers.

The mattress has a bouncy feel, so when you change sleeping positions, your movements feel supported.

The quilted layer includes memory foam with very low resilience and has a fairly slow-moving feel, despite a layer of bouncier polyfoam. The polyfoam layer below is much bouncier, so it 'pushes back' more against your movements and adds some bounciness.

The edge support is fantastic. The sides of the mattress barely compress when you sit or sleep near the edge. You can sleep comfortably near the side of the bed, and it's suitable for people with mobility issues who need a solid surface for getting in and out of bed.

The sides of the support layer are lined with 16-gauge coils for extra edge support. Although they're made of thinner wire, they're tightly wound and small in diameter, which adds stiffness.