Could you provide the website for Rowa that says that ESD coil core mattresses cannot go on their slat frame. I have considered their beds and they really push the slat foundation so I don't want to make a mistake. Thanks!

I got an email from Berkeley Ergonomics complaining about me complaining. In spite of my directly contacting them –I didn't hear back from them about the maufacturing issues regarding the sewn cover of this mattress and other issues. Until I Yelped. Uneasy about this missive from them, I have softened my review on Yelp Sacramento/Folsom.com

I questioned Berkeley Ergonomics by email instantly about the adjustable slat system we ordered. The website of the German manufacturer of this adjustable bed states clearly that the Legra slat system does not work well with a coil core bed. The bed we ordered was in fact a coil core bed. –We lost faith in our retail store (ESDesign) at this point too.
–The German company, Rowa, makes a different slat system for the coil core bed, wider slats that sit flatter. I have still heard nothing from Berkeley Ergomomic regarding this matter. The German company did repond! Right away! Rowa told me by email that the other (more appropriate for us) slat system was not available in the United States.

I don\'t even require these things, but they are behind the times. Mattresses for the 21st century? I may be an archaeologist, and love old things, BUT, I can\'t do archaeology w/out DNA and Radiocarbon.

Let\'s get w/it??

The Royal Pedic makes these options possible. Organic Cotton (cost tons more). Latex from Belgium (affordable!).

I\'m leaning Royal Pedic. Just \'cause they are\'nt living in the past. I may well go for the regular line (non-organic), But Heck, they ARE forward thinking.

We were alarmed –at how the special fabric they use for the sack-like \"cover\" that contains the innards was fraying apart– !! from the holes made stitching over the edge binding tapes. Sad.
– We mentioned it and the owners told us no one had ever complained about it. I said, in my unique smartarsey way, that they couldn\'t be saying that anymore \'cause they were hearing about it now!

In spite of our misgivings, we placed an order totalling over 7,000 dollars. We got home, thought the better of it, and cancelled. When we got home we delved into the complaints about the post-purchase disconnect in their customer service. We noted a pattern of this, not just the rare one. We began to be fearful they wouldn\'t let us cancel (less than 24 hrs later, but on a sunday) given the horror stories, and they did keep us hanging for hours and hours before giving us the courtesy of a call regarding our desire to cancel. The fine print of the contract stated clearly that there could be no replacement of the mattress cover (a sack with zipper). What \'sold\' us? We also decided on an Adjustable base slat system from Europe –to go with this calking (two really, for the split calking twins). It was so cool. But we could see that our bedframe would look terrible with all that contraption under it. Our bedframe: It\'s a delicate metal floating barge of a sleigh bed. A bedskirt would ruin the effect. So that helped us cancel too, even though we are So Tired of bed shopping…
And so, in doing the research we are clear we are not buying from the big S. mattress manufacturers, and we have been looking for weeks at the spouting natural bed choices out of Canada and the US and even from the EU, which are largely unavailable here anyway. But we saw the lovely things they sleep on, in say, Germany.

Enter McRoskey:
We had been contemplating the Royal Pedic and the Hasten beds. We will try a Hasten next month on a trip to Seattle. It was great to read the comment above about Hasten customer service. We have read that kind of thing about them on other websites.
So far, the Royal Pedic people seem top notch, and we have tried the \'all latex 7 zone\'Royal Pedic in a Scandia Down shop here in Reno. It\'s nice.
– But like I said, I\'ve never met a bed I didn\'t like.
We sleep in a full size, and now, with the chihuahua, we need the calking. Since beginning this hunt I\'m coming to the conclusion that my insomnia may have something to do with our mattress (we have had only 2 in 25 years of marriage, the first one we found outside a small mattress co. in Seattle when we were students !!
That old thing is now at the family cabin.
Our full is now in the guest room, while our metal floating sleigh beds awaits the new mattress….
And waits.
And waits.
Like I was saying: ENTER MCROSKEY
– In talking by telephone with Jason, a sales guy at McRoskey SanFran sunday/yesterday…
Jason mentioned that if you don\'t need an adjustable bed for medical reasons, don\'t get one. Sleeping flat is the way to go.
– My husband snores a bit and I have a light problem with the gastro-reflux if I eat too late and have wine. So we thought, if we get the adjustable bed, that\'d be good. We\'re not getting any younger.
I MUST SAY IT WAS/IS REFRESHING to have a salesperson steer us away from an expensive mistake. I have tried a wedge before, and my back pain was extreme from sleeping on that incline.
Jason mentioned the McRoskey beds, for the most part, are a \'softer\' product than the Royal Pedic. And that sounded good. Because we did like the conforming nature of all the beds in the European Sleep Design line.

There are a few other reasons we didn\'t buy the European Sleep Design (after doing all the paper work and essentially having the order placed). It was so hard to MAKE the bed. The foundation is slats for all the beds. And so you have to \'tuck\' the sheets into this miniscule lip where your finger tips meet the horrible slats where rubber bits hold the slats fast to the frame (poorly padded, by the way, below the slats, where it mimics the traditional type of boxspring. Now, you won\'t believe this, but I love making my bed up. It\'s like an expression of love and an artistic adventure for me. I would\'ve HATED making up this bed. In the middle of the night, Saturday to Sunday, after \'buying\' this ESDesign product, I lamented that fact aloud. I couldn\'t sleep a wink thinking of the mistake we had made.
I WANT A \"REAL\" BED. With a boxsring that is beautifully upholstered and the mattress \'divan\' that is also well made and lovely in every way. I was delighted to read the McRoskey website where it says that they check all the stitching over and over again. That about sold me. Plus, WE LOVE OLD THINGS like a company that\'s been around for ever. We\'re archaeologists. Probably why we are so anal to boot.

So, off to SanFran.
Can\'t wait.
Can\'t wait.
Can\'t wait.