Boring Question about Duvets...

[WaxOnFeckOff]

We currently have a 2.5 duvet on the bed. I'm mostly finding the temperature ok but it's an anti allergy synthetic thing (DH has allergies) so sometimes i'm finding it a bit sweaty and sometimes too cool. I've finally found some decent 100% cotton (organic/fairtrade) bedding which does help, but i'd really like to get a more natural duvet to help regulate the temperature better (i'm hoping). It's not hot flushes btw - unless DH has them too! :o

What tog would I need do you think? I would add that it's been down to -6 so far this year and we've mostly been fine. I was thinking maybe about a 6 if it's not going to make us sweaty.

Anyone have any recommendations that aren't £££?

But surely it depends how warn you like to be, whether you have the heating on and for how long, whether the window is open, whether you wear pjs/socks etc.

You could try adding a blanket?

I guess what I am trying to work out if is we remove the sweatiness of the artificial duvet and a natural one is presumably more breathable, how much extra Togs would we need?

Sleep naked, house is generally well heated but we have all the windows locked but on the latch for ventilation. The bedroom heating is off but we have the back of the hot water tank cupboard in our room plus there are pipes running under the floorboards to the radiator in the en-suite, so when the heating kicks on in the morning it does get quite warm. Don't want to have anything on the bed outside the duvet cover as DH is very intolerant to a lot of materials and dyes. I've tried putting extra stuff inside a duvet cover before but it tends to not work very well as it moves about and gets lumpy.

2.5 in winter? Wow how warm is your house?

My DH has allegies we have a wonderful 15.5tog wool one from sleep & soak. It’s toast and not sweaty in the slightest.

We couldn't cope with 15.5!

I have some vouchers for M&S and they have a 4.5 or they have an all season one that gives you a 4.5 and a 9 but I'm thinking we might not use the 9 but i'm not sure if the 4.5 would be warm enough. We did put a 4.5 on last winter and it coped with the beast from the east but again it's synthetic and sweaty. I'm thinking that it's the synthetic bit that's essentially keeping us hot so you get sweaty then chuck it off and then get chilled so pull it back on and that's pretty much it all night. Sometimes in summer we take the duvet out and just use the cover.

It's a new build house so reasonably insulated. Teen DSs also only have 2.5 on but one wears PJs and the other sleeps in boxers but will pull on a blanket as well sometimes.