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Do U have a Heated mattress pad?

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Folks from all the warm weather states need not reply..LOL

We live in PA. Had a heated mattress pad for years with dual controls...With this ridiculously cold weather, the pad has been quite comfy. We turn it on moderately high about 2 hours b4 bedtime..Then I turn my side down to #1 (low) at bedtime.. We turn house heat down to 60F. How about U?

PS....Just my wife and I at home..Might be different with kids..And we don't live in a mansion
 
We've had one for years. We had an earlier than usual cold snap in November and early December and it certainly came in handy! All three bedrooms have one just in case visitors happen.
 
I don't but I know people that do and they love it. We like to be more on the cooler side when we sleep. In fact, we moved our bed to the other side of the room years ago because the heat baseboard was right under it. Now we have a huge hutch in front of the baseboard and the room is still very warm.
 
I used to have one in NY many years ago. I much preferred it to an electric blanket, as they're supposedly safer, especially when you turn them off when you go to bed. They certainly eliminated that "OMG" moment when your bare skin hits 60-degree sheets! You don't see them much in California stores nowadays.
 
We have used them, but now find we prefer Sunbeam's Comfy Toes foot-of-bed warmer. Here from Amazon: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00ENRCMC0/ref=twister_B00O2133Y8?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1 It just covers about the bottom 2' of the mattress, so no warmth for your torso or head, but also no bulky wires. It's just a single control, so I just use the lowest setting or sometimes pre-warm the bed at a higher setting then turn it down. The advertising on the box says it has a timer that turns off after a couple of hours, but neither of ours do that. either they are defective, or the box is mistaken. IIRC, I got them at a much lower price at Walmart.

Jim
 
Yes and no. We use a low voltage, microfleece electric blanket with dual controls. (Brand name has changed since we bought it.) Supposedly much safer that a regular electric blanket. No hot spots. Very even heat. Turned on to it maximum (ten on the dial, but in reality I never have it turned on higher that four), it uses as much electricity for each side as a sixty watt light bulb. House temperature at night, the same as the OP, sixty degrees.
 
We have had both the electric mattress pad and the electric blanket at different times, and I preferred the blanket, as with the mattress pad would get too warm laying on it, and not warm enough above it (if that makes sense).

Kurt
 
Solve the bedroom/bed too cold in the Northeastern USA years ago. FREE ELECTRIC! Small electric heater keeps me and the room about 75 degrees (80+ degrees if I am sick). I sleep with a light weight blanket. Great til I get up to take a shower ... bathroom is cold. Sunroom with another space heater is perfect daytime space ... sun, warmth, lots of glass (a wall of floor to ceiling glass facing due SOUTH) with the open grass field for about 2 acres.

Best room in that house ... the sunroom.
 
No. Even when it's really cold here (like in the teens) I sleep with a window open. I would get much too warm with a heated pad.
 
My husband finds it more comfortable to sleep at cooler temp than me. In winter, we run it at 73 degrees and I use a heated blanket on my side. I like it warmer.

A reminder for those who run the house really cold and with a warm bed. When you get up in the middle of the night to go to the restroom, your body can go into a shock resulting in a stroke or a heart attack. One of our ex-colleagues mother did exactly that and suffered a major stroke. Her doctor said they often get stroke patients in the winter because of this.
 
Just go one for Christmas and love it. We've never used an electric blanket so I can't compare it, but I love slipping in to a bed that's already warmed up. I do have to turn the temperature off, though, once I'm ready to sleep.
 
We use an electric blanket which I set at 3 and Cliff 6. At 62 my hot flashes have mostly stopped, but I still find I throw the blanket (and cats) off for a few minutes each night, so I think better than having to wait for a mattress pad to cool off.
 
I keep a heavy comforter around for when it is really cold (it is the kind you would use when camping). I like knowing that it will keep me warm if I lose electric power (and thus heat). I don't use it often but have for the last 4 or 5 days.

George
 
I sure like having the foot of the bed warmed when I get in it. Then I turn it off. Back in my long-haul trucking days, my company issued us (also available for purchase) 12 volt plug into the truck mattress pads. I kept an egg-crate pad on the bed as well as flannel sheets and a heavy comforter. If I turned on the mattress pad 2-3 hours before bed time (then turn the electric pad off) the bed would stay toasty without the engine running down to the low 20's F. That first couple of minutes after getting out of the nice warm bed into the icy cold cab was- shall we say, BRACING!. Often, when it was really cold, I'd take a deep breath, dive for the ignition key, start the engine, set the heater and retreat to the bed for a while until the cab warmed up. The reason I'd turn off the mattress pad was to avoid having to climb out of a nice warm bed into an icy cold tractor that had dead batteries and wouldn't start. Those electric heating pads would really take a toll on your batteries.

I thought you'd enjoy a peek at another lifestyle. :)

Jim
 
Passepartout said:
I sure like having the foot of the bed warmed when I get in it. Then I turn it off. Back in my long-haul trucking days, my company issued us (also available for purchase) 12 volt plug into the truck mattress pads. I kept an egg-crate pad on the bed as well as flannel sheets and a heavy comforter. If I turned on the mattress pad 2-3 hours before bed time (then turn the electric pad off) the bed would stay toasty without the engine running down to the low 20's F. That first couple of minutes after getting out of the nice warm bed into the icy cold cab was- shall we say, BRACING!. Often, when it was really cold, I'd take a deep breath, dive for the ignition key, start the engine, set the heater and retreat to the bed for a while until the cab warmed up. The reason I'd turn off the mattress pad was to avoid having to climb out of a nice warm bed into an icy cold tractor that had dead batteries and wouldn't start. Those electric heating pads would really take a toll on your batteries.

I thought you'd enjoy a peek at another lifestyle. :)

Jim
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Wow. I never knew you drove trucks. Definitely a different lifestyle. Thanks for sharing.
 
No heated pad, no heated blanket. Just a down comforter and a hot wife!

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California girl here. I have been using one for about 5 or 6 years. Mostly I heat up the bed then turn it off. I have RA and sometimes I need the soothing heat to be able to fall asleep. My husband has always scoffed at it, but has been suffering from back pain recently and he finally agreed to try it on his side. Now he's a convert. I don't think that it heats up like it used to, so I think I will need a new one soon. Why are the blankets safer than the mattress pad?
 
No, have never had a heated mattress pad but have had electric blankets here and there. Not for years, tho, prefer flannel sheets and regular blankets in cooler bedroom. Sitting here with wood stove cranking about 85 degrees while single digits outside, hard to think about how chilly the other side of the house is that has my bedroom, but pretty sure I'll still be fairly warm when I climb into cool sheets.

Thermostat never down to 60 unless I am gone for days, that is far too chilly for me. Even running wood stove, I have zone on this side of house set to 65 as I don't want it colder than that if stove cools overnight.
 
geekette said:
No, have never had a heated mattress pad but have had electric blankets here and there. Not for years, tho, prefer flannel sheets and regular blankets in cooler bedroom. Sitting here with wood stove cranking about 85 degrees while single digits outside, hard to think about how chilly the other side of the house is that has my bedroom, but pretty sure I'll still be fairly warm when I climb into cool sheets.

Thermostat never down to 60 unless I am gone for days, that is far too chilly for me. Even running wood stove, I have zone on this side of house set to 65 as I don't want it colder than that if stove cools overnight.
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You may want to look at a stove type electric fireplace like this one: http://www.electricfireplacesdirect...replace-stove-with-remote-control-CS-25IR-CRM

We have 2 of these but I don't get to use the one in the bedroom because my husband likes the room COLD. He has one in his den/office area and he uses it in winter as his office gets colder than the rest of the home. We also have a huge one that looks like the real thing in the living room.
 
We have a heated mattress pad, but each of us also has a small heating pad we've been using lately. For several years now, we've used space heaters to heat only the rooms we're in during the winter. We've saved gobs of $.
 
VacationForever said:
You may want to look at a stove type electric fireplace like this one: http://www.electricfireplacesdirect...replace-stove-with-remote-control-CS-25IR-CRM

We have 2 of these but I don't get to use the one in the bedroom because my husband likes the room COLD. He has one in his den/office area and he uses it in winter as his office gets colder than the rest of the home. We also have a huge one that looks like the real thing in the living room.
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Thanks. I'm going to order one.
 
VacationForever said:
You may want to look at a stove type electric fireplace like this one: http://www.electricfireplacesdirect...replace-stove-with-remote-control-CS-25IR-CRM

We have 2 of these but I don't get to use the one in the bedroom because my husband likes the room COLD. He has one in his den/office area and he uses it in winter as his office gets colder than the rest of the home. We also have a huge one that looks like the real thing in the living room.
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Appreciate it, but wood is my fuel of choice, falls free in my yard. I am also looking to decrease utility usage vs increase it. I cannot fathom living without my big ole cast iron stove when an ice storm steals electricity. Without it, I would have to abandon my home, something far dicier in ice, given the hills, curves and ditches.

I wouldn't mind a remote control for a robot to chop and stack the wood, and certainly for bringing it in these past few bitter cold days. We cracked 30 today but more wintry stuff coming tonight so have my evening, overnight and morning wood already in.
 
geekette said:
Appreciate it, but wood is my fuel of choice, falls free in my yard. I am also looking to decrease utility usage vs increase it. I cannot fathom living without my big ole cast iron stove when an ice storm steals electricity. Without it, I would have to abandon my home, something far dicier in ice, given the hills, curves and ditches.

I wouldn't mind a remote control for a robot to chop and stack the wood, and certainly for bringing it in these past few bitter cold days. We cracked 30 today but more wintry stuff coming tonight so have my evening, overnight and morning wood already in.
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I love a wood fireplace, but it is much trouble, and is smelly. When we build our retirement home in the North Carolina mountains, we're going to have a wood fireplace on the porch and a gas one in the den.
 
geekette said:
I wouldn't mind a remote control for a robot to chop and stack the wood, and certainly for bringing it in these past few bitter cold days.
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I've heard that done correctly, heating with wood warms you 3 times. Once when you cut it, once when you split and stack it, once when you burn it. I don't think you'd get that benefit with the robot. :)
 
geekette said:
Appreciate it, but wood is my fuel of choice, falls free in my yard. I am also looking to decrease utility usage vs increase it. I cannot fathom living without my big ole cast iron stove when an ice storm steals electricity. Without it, I would have to abandon my home, something far dicier in ice, given the hills, curves and ditches.

I wouldn't mind a remote control for a robot to chop and stack the wood, and certainly for bringing it in these past few bitter cold days. We cracked 30 today but more wintry stuff coming tonight so have my evening, overnight and morning wood already in.
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When we lived in California, we were prohibited to burn wood as it creates tremendous air pollution. There were only a couple of designated days that we were allowed to burn wood during winter.
 
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