Duvets for Winter

Saga

What do you reckon: two el cheapo "10.5" tog vs one 13.5 tog? Oh and I don't seem to get on well with down these days.

grumbler

10.5*2=21

21.0 vs 13.5

Saga

grumbler said:

10.5*2=21

21.0 vs 13.5

🤣 well not quite what I was getting at. Forget I asked 🤣

FaceHead

I think the answer is to have a summer 10.5 tog duvet, and Chuck a blanket over the top in winter (or a second 10.5 tog if you liked).

Having different duvets for different seasons seems like a faff

greensalad

I'm surprised that 10.5 would ever be considered summer weight?! I sleep cold and have a 4.5tog which has only just this week started to get too cold, so extra blanket over the top it is. I hope to sew a quilt too as extra for the deeper winter months. But 10.5 for summer? Surely that's too much,

pinkteapot

This is hugely affected by how warm your house is, and how cold a sleeper you are. We're in a ridiculously insulated new-build so even in winter with bedroom radiator turned off the bedroom doesn't get below 17 degrees at night. I'm also a woman of a certain age so I'm still using a 1-tog duvet, but might consider the 4.5-tog if we get a truly Arctic January. 

Bendy_House

I can see only one possible benefit in having two thinner duvets instead of swapping betwixt a summer and thicker winter one, and that's the 'possibility' of the padding material being less likely to move 'cos there's just less in each one to begin with. But that's only going to happen with el cheapos anyway, so a self-fulfilling whatsit.

In any case, 2 x 10.5 tog? Phew.

I just bought a 'Sherpa Fleece' blanket on t'bay for around £20 (they are artificial fleece, but have a fleece-like pile on one layer, and a short 'velour' on the other), and have to say it's stupid-warm. Nice weight and drape to it too, so really comfy for the evening tv snuggle, and sitting room temp kept below 18oC. 

I'd imagine it would be equally effective on top of a low-tog duvet to boost it for winter, and they look really nice too. Lots of colours - charcoal is nice.

Doozergirl

There's nothing worse than a stiff sort of duvet where cold air gets in from the top constantly.    It doesn't matter what the tog rating is if you're blasted with cold air every time you turn over. 

Give me a drapey duvet with lovely pockets, please.  And not too heavy.

Thanks.  
 

maisie_cat

We use two in the winter, one in summer. They are individually covered so we can swap over on wash day. I've just checked, and both are 4.5 to my surprise. 

Silvertabby

pinkteapot said:

This is hugely affected by how warm your house is, and how cold a sleeper you are. We're in a ridiculously insulated new-build so even in winter with bedroom radiator turned off the bedroom doesn't get below 17 degrees at night. I'm also a woman of a certain age so I'm still using a 1-tog duvet, but might consider the 4.5-tog if we get a truly Arctic January. 

I hear you!  We have a 4.5 tog all year round, but even now I throw it off and just sleep under the cotton top sheet.  

MovingForwards

I've a 4.5 tog for about 9 months of the year, swap to a winter one when it gets colder, when it's freezing the 4.5 gets slipped into the duvet cover with the winter one.