Box springs are designed to support innerspring mattresses and therefore can change the way your foam mattress feels.
Can you put a foam mattress on a regular box spring.
Hi stan the good news is you can definitely use your box spring under your memory foam mattress.
Some other mattress companies like nectar suggest that you actually can use your existing box spring to support a foam mattress as long as it is supported by a metal bed frame like this.
Make certain your box spring is in excellent shape with no broken slats.
A good queen memory foam mattress will approach 100 pounds.
You should never use a box spring with a memory foam mattress and an adjustable bed frame.
Most box springs sit on a metal bed frame.
Placing a memory foam mattress on a box spring before you put the mattress on the box spring make sure that the box spring is in good shape with no slats which are broken.
A mattress usually needs a solid foundation such as a box spring so that its structure doesn t break down.
The mattress placed directly on the adjustable allows the mattress to move freely as you raise or lower the head or leg sections.
The reason is because memory foam mattresses are heavy.
If you get a good king size memory foam mattress it will way approximately 120 pounds.
Answer by rich silver.
A memory foam mattress on top of a regular mattress is a workable option.
This is because memory foam mattresses are naturally heavy.