Do you keep your windows open at night?

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I’ve never dared do this due to security concerns… but I am so hot tonight I am considering taking the risk. Anyone else? Am I silly to worry?

My upstairs windows are open all year round (only shut if I'm going on holiday), downstairs windows open from 5am when I wake, til about 10pm

I survived!
The dawn chorus and milkman’s vehicle we me up in the early hours but otherwise uneventful. No giant bugs or other intruders!

I have them open when the weather is extremely hot. I hate it because it makes my hay-fever much worse and I get woken up super early by all the birds, but no choice in this rare baking weather.

But all year round I have Windows open as much as possible, just not when I'm sleeping.

365 days.

Burglars do not go into occupied houses through upstairs windows!!

Too much noise for me with the window open. At night it's intermittent road noise but from daybreak on its birds including very loud woodpigeons and collared doves.

Sometimes they wake me anyway by tap dancing on my roof. (More likely they're having sex tbh).

No never. We back onto a wood and farm so too many flying things. It never feels too hot though, it’s a cold detached house and windows are open all day.

Windows open. An intruder would have to be insane to try to get in through our bedroom window, mostly because he'd be seen.

We have ours open on tilt almost all year around, even in - temperatures. It’s hot here all summer and we get lots of mosquitoes so we add mosquito nets in summer and have wooden shutters to close against heat and early sun, either would stop giant moths or bats as well.

Yes , all year round and temps here go down to minus 20 in the winter.

Bedroom and bathroom windows open all year, even in the snow ... couldn’t sleep without air circulating.

Its too hot for the burglers to be bothered to climb up the side of the house 😂

Upstairs bedroom windows, always, except when it’s seriously freezing.

We were out most of yesterday and the upstairs was roasting when we got back at around 10 pm - despite curtains being closed.
I’d find it very hard to live in a bungalow or ground floor flat, where open windows would be s security risk.

Our windows will lock open about half an inch. We've always kept our (mine & DH's) bedroom window open on the lock 24/7, whether we're home or not, all year. Last time we closed it was when The Beast From The East winter storm came. We closed it for about 10 days. We're in Yorkshire & live moderately high up, not a sheltered position, we can see for absolutely miles from our bedroom window. We've currently got all the house windows open, the ground floor & fire escape windows are open in the locked position.

Flies are a problem though. We're about a quarter mile from a woodland, & there are pastures just across the road, so we get quite a few. I've got my eye on one of those electric fly killing things they have in commercial kitchens & restaurants.

Only when its hot. I'm going to try and close them tonight though as I was woken up at 6am by the neighbours kids (mine were fast asleep). Somehow it felt so much worse then being woken by my own

No… the cat has a death wish so DH steam like crabs in our shells. Pre-cat the windows would only be shut for rain or snow really,

That should say DH and I

Yes
No security risks as our upstairs windows all have restrictors on them (sash windows, low sills and I was worried the kids would take a tumble out of them)

OP are you in a ground floor flat? If not, I'm not sure why you wouldn't have your bedroom windows open.

Unless it's below zero we have our bedroom window open all year round. In summer we open them fully. I found it difficult to sleep last night because of the heat and even considered going downstairs to sleep in the living room with the patio doors open.

At the moment all upstairs windows are open 24/7, even when we go out. I shut downstairs at night but leave them open during the day even if nipping out. We generally leave the back doors open as well and I'll leave them if walking to school.

Yes I leave bedroom windows open all night, even in winter unless it's really freezing as we get condensation over the windows if they're shut

What do you all do about flying things?
We have bats but I have blackout curtains as I couldn't sleep in broad daylight. Also I can't have window wide open as cats come in though the gap would be big enough for a bat.
It did happen once. I only realised after I'd gone to bed that someting was rustling. It was a bat. It took two of us, a big towel and an umbrella to catch it!

During the day they’re all wide open in every room, even during winter I have a few windows open a crack because I can’t stand the air feeling stuffy in any way. If I go out I close all downstairs ones but always leave upstairs open on the latch though so not wide open. Night time bedroom ones are wide open aside from toddler DS’s bedroom obviously which is on the latch so he doesn’t try to escape.

I always close mine when I go to bed, no safety concerns just a light sleeper and can't sleep with them open