I like it cool at night too. But I live in SoCal. But when I lived in Montana, in a poorly insulated log house, where the ambient temperatures could keep beer cold on the kitchen table, and we put stuff in the refrigerator to keep it from freezing :eek:, I remember never wanting to leave my electric blanket.
So how long do you need to preheat the bed for? Sounds like cruel work to have to get the bed ready for bed.
I had one many years ago, it was good when one was sick, but otherwise, I’d turn it on when I got into bed on a really cold night, & then turn it off when I woke up sweating at some point later on.
I would like an electric blanket but I sleep with a duvet with a thick, flannel cover and no top sheet so the blanket would either be on under the duvet, right on my skin (yuck) or on top of the duvet being useless.
So no electric blanket for me.
Never liked them much; I was always too hot or too cold and rarely just right. My body just adapts too well to snuggling under a couple Hudson’s Bays and settling in for a long winters nap.
I turn down the central heating to 50 degrees at night and turn on the electric blanket at the lowest setting. Even so, my feet and sometimes my legs get hot while my chest and shoulders are still cold. That’s why you’ll often find me with my feet sticking out from under the blankets. Sometimes I’ll wake up in the middle of the night overheated all over and turn off the electric blanket, but usually not.
Nay! I had one when I was a kid. I wrapped myself up in it and IT CAUGHT FIRE. After that my mother got me an electric mattress pad, which was nice, but on my own, nope. I have a dog. He likes to snuggle, and he’s warm.
You could slide it into a big pillow case or something?
I try to turn mine on at least an hour before beddy-bye. And I’ll turn it off as soon as I crawlunder the covers.
Not only the electric blanket on our bed but also the electric throws we have downstairs. They’re wonderful to cuddle in while watching TV on a chilly night.
I love warm sheets too but I don’t wish to boil all night, so I’ll either turn it way down or off right before I hop in. “Way down” = 1 or 2, and it’ll be snowing outside.
HAHAHA! You gave me a good laugh. I don’t know how you can stand it. Another reason we sleep in separate rooms. Reason number one is his snoring, reason number two is I like sleeping with my window open (cracked in the winter) and have a fan blowing on me during all seasons.
I read that and thought you were nuts; I mean, I’d be freezing with a 50-degree house. Then I looked at your location.
Winter here in Arizona, the house is kept at 70* and summer, 82; much too warm for you, I’d imagine.
*The being The Year we Skipped Winter, the heat rarely kicked in even at that.
Do you brush your teeth? Turn it on just before that.
Me: definite yea though I don’t have one now. Had to get rid when we bought a waterbed 25 years back.
68 is chilly??! That’s higher than where I keep the thermostat during the day during wintertime. 55 at night and I do turn on a heated mattress pad.
I was anti until my mom moved to a 2 story house. The upstairs had one radiator in the central room with me in a bedroom off of that. If no one else was upstairs I’d have the door open but even then my room was on the cold side. (also, there might be a woodstove going which means the furnace wasn’t running. Some heat escaped upstairs but again my room was on the cold side).
I’d turn the blanket on for ~10 min before going to bed and it felt nice and warm and then I could turn it off.
My thermostat is at 62F at night and don’t need an electric blanket.
Brian
When I was a kid, I liked having an electric blanket. We lived in a cold climate, and there was no insulation in the exterior wall of my bedroom, so it was cold af in there at night during the winter. Now, in my own house, we turn the heat way down at night, and for awhile had a heated mattress pad, which I liked a lot better. Until we got a feather bed. No more need for the mattress pad, that’s for sure!
My dog sleeps behind my knees, that’s all i need.
I thought all the new electric blankets switch themselves off after some fixed time. So falling asleep with it on shouldn’t be much of a problem.
In the past, I used an old electric blanket to cover the boat’s engine during freezing weather. Better heat distribution, and less risk of failure than a lightbulb. When the old blanket failed, I discovered that all the new ones (at least at that time) had a timer feature that shut them off – making them unsuitable for long term heating.
Sounds like you have the thermostat thingy cranked up too high. On all blankets I have seen, there is a dial from 1 to 10, low to high. Although “1” or “2” doesn’t feel very warm to the touch – imperceptible even – it might just be the amount you need to keep warm all night, but not bake. Try it sometime.
You do know there are dual-heat blankets, don’t you? They have the two sides of a bed on different thermostats. They are designed just for households like yours.
When I was in Los Angeles, once I lived in an apartment with a large window fan mounted in the bedroom window. It was bolted on, so it couldn’t be removed. I used to sleep just below the always-open window year-round. Even though the temp got down close to freezing in the winter, an electric blanket was all I needed.
If it gets colder, add a dog, and it’ll be a two-dog night.
Exactly this. Turn on 20 min before bedtime and turn off just before sliding into bed.
I can choose anything from 1 to 10, but even 2 is too much for all night. I prefer to warm it up at 4 or 5, then shut it off. Now, if I’m sick, and shivering with chills, it’ll be on 8 or 9, but that hasn’t happened in ages.
As for automatic turn-off - I think these cut off after 10 hours. Our old mattress pad would go for 12 hours.