Electric underblankets vs using radiators in bedrooms

Torry_Quine

I never had heating in my bedroom at all unless the temperature is well below zero. An electric blanket makes my bed cosy to get into 

Qyburn

Torry_Quine said:

I never had heating in my bedroom at all unless the temperature is well below zero. An electric blanket makes my bed cosy to get into 

Do you mean below zero in the bedroom?

cannugec5

I have the heating off in the bedroom just now. In the winter it only kicks in if we get below 12 degrees. 

I like windows open fresh bedroom. I have given in to the 12 degrees as a compromise to my husband! 

Swipe

I used this method  with 3 duvets in the depths of winter in my previous bungalow that had no bedroom heating. Most of the time I'd wake up too hot and have to switch it off. During really cold spells -6C and below, I'd sometimes wake up to a 3C bedroom but was never cold during the night with my electric blanket on the lowest setting. You will however, need a hat for your head when it's really cold.

mumf

We aren’t very tough these days are we? If we slept with an electric blanket / heating on in our house,we would cook to death! 

Mstty

No we aren't very tough bought up with modern central heating, no ice on the inside of the glass(yawn to that heard it too many times)

Blame innovation and affordability of modern heating systems. Let's all get back downt pit lad.

Only joking with the above before it descends into a sketch from the four Yorkshiremen.

Last winter was the first we turned things down (a little) to harden us for perhaps what was ahead. A challenge to see what we could save and what we needed as a minimum to carry on working fro home during the day and not being miserable.

The electric blanket we have heated the bed nicely and was turned off when we got into bed but as we have an ASHP the heating was left on 24/7 albeit low over nighttime.

cool_k

cannugec5 said:

I have the heating off in the bedroom just now. In the winter it only kicks in if we get below 12 degrees. 

I like windows open fresh bedroom. I have given in to the 12 degrees as a compromise to my husband! 

I'm the same I love afresh bedroom but my husband is very sensitive to temperature due to his medication, so I'm looking for a compromise that saves some money. 

We've struggled to lower our energy usage over the summer as much as I'd like due to the wet weather. Our heating has been off since April but trying to get clothes dry has been a nightmare.

I'm worried our energy bills will go up as a result, so I'm trying to work out how to keep everyone warm for less money 

cool_k

JGB1955 said:

I would roast if either
1) the heating was on all night (it's set at 15C overnight and only kicks in 4 or 5 times a year)
or
2) I had to sleep in a pre-heated/continuously heated bed.  We have our bedroom window open (on the latch) 24/7/366.

So...... in answer to your questions...

1) No, we don't do this
2) You're heating things that don't need heating... and at a cost (IMO)!

I don't think I explained myself properly in my post. We don't have the heating on all night. It comes on twice a day. 

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Many of us of a certain age will well remember waking up in the morning to inside window panes covered in ice. I do not remember any reported deaths amongst my schoolmates. Even on the coldest of days in the Winter of 1962/3, we were all still expected to walk the two miles to and from school. We were a hardy bunch in those days: central heating ‘bah humbug’. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-21189863

wild666

Never used an electric blanket, my daughter wanted me to buy one last September but I said NO!  I have a 4.5 TOG quilt on the bed all year round and in winter it's cold when I get into bed but soon warms up, it takes about 15 minutes to warm up, then I watch on demand programs for a few hours on the PC before turning it off and dropping off to sleep.