AIBU to leave bedroom windows open at night?

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DD's bedroom is like a sauna, it's awful, she frequently wakes up feeling sick, which I don't doubt for a second it's all the heat. Her bedroom is at the front of the house. She has a floor fan, which is very powerful, but she has it going on Number 3 all night! All it's doing is causing that hot air to move around more. I opened her window one night, including all ours and we weren't murdered in our sleep.

DD loves a lot of these crime shows and was annoyed about the Windows being open, claiming she's going to be killed.

So I'm curious whether you leave your windows open?

Yabu I can't think of anything worse than an open window.

Mine's always open but of the weather is nasty I switch to nightvent. I'm not sure I would do this if I were on ground floor though

I leave my children's open a little (we have those window catches fired that only allow them to open slightly just in case they decide to throw themselves out! I don't have mine open though as I'm terrified of birds (ridiculous I know)!

I only leave them open in super hot weather - I will never forget the night a bastard BAT flew into the room and I very nearly had a heart attack. Flying little fuckers.

I couldn't bear to sleep with the windows shut, it gives me a headache just thinking about it.

If your DD doesn't like it, then you should at least give the room a good airing every day.

Our windows have catches half way up to stop them being opened fully from the outside.
I have them open all year round except for me and DH as we sleep in the loft room and have a velux so if it's really windy, raining or snowing we have to shut it. I hate having the window closed though. I sleep much better in a cold bedroom, the radiators are off in ours.

Always open, even if it's just a crack mid-winter. I cannot abide poor ventilation and I get stuffy if I don't have some fresh air. Only closed if weather is really, really vile.

However, if my bedroom was on the ground floor I would have to have some kind of restricter device to prevent burglaries or being murdered in my bed!

I always have the window open when I'm asleep. Wake up with a headache otherwise

Mine are always at least cracked, and open wide in spring, summer and fall.

There are locks/catches/other devices for most types of windows that will allow a partial opening but no one large enough for an intruder to use. I would investigate such things, OP.

I always have at least one of the Velux windows in my room open at night, whatever the weather. I hate waking up in the morning to stale air.

Don't you get wet jerrysbelly

I am surprised at people who have Windows open all year round. Doesn't that mean the bedroom is freezing in winter? How do you ever manage to get out of your warm bed and into the freezing room early in the morning? In winter I struggle to get out of bed into the colder air even with the heating set to come on a half hour before I'm usually up!

A cold bedroom with plenty of bedclothes is my ideal. I never have the bedroom radiators on, apart from in my 4 year old son's bedroom in the evening when he's running around nude after his bath - I can't sleep in warm, airless rooms. I put on a dressing gown and go downstairs to where the Aga heats the kitchen, I don't hang about upstairs on winter mornings, and the bathroom radiator and towel rail are on to make it warm for pleasant showering etc.

Also, if bedroom/ upstairs windows open year round doesn't it mean you always have a draught blowing down from upstairs when the heating is on downstairs?

No. I keep the doors closed. The house is well-built and well-insulated.

I would suggest something like THIS for your DD window so she knows no-one can enter.
Those window restrictors will be fine but they look like you could cut through them and if she is nervous about crime the full metal thing might work.

Yes I sleep with the window open in my bedroom.
Get's too stuffy otherwise.

There's people who shut their window at night?!

I have mine open all year round, even if only a small gap

Sometime I have to shut them.
Lambing season especially.
They are very noisy.

I prefer to sleep with the small middle window open all year round.

DH doesn't and would happily sleep in a hermetically sealed room. So we tussle over it.

If he goes to bed before me he'll close it. In the morning I feel lousy, can barely breathe and have a headache.

He doesn't mind in the summer but he's got this weird thing about draughts being injurious to health.

If I had my way I'd have a load of heavy blankets, cotton sheets, hot water bottle and eiderdown and an open window in the winter.

OP, my DCs room get lots of sun in the afternoon onwards. To keep their rooms cool I open the windows fully in the morning when they are in shade then close them and draw the blinds and curtains. Dark curtains can help. If it's really hot they sleep with the windows wide open until I go to bed and I close them except for the top middle one.

Those door bars are really easy to force open. Can the window go onto the latch and then lock? (Leaving a very small gap - at least a bit of air). The fan probably just creates extra heat. In summer you need to close all windows and draw curtains all day then open windows at dusk or a bit later (sorry you prob know that already)

We don't have little windows, we have French Doors that lead onto a balcony that overlook our garden.

When dh is here I have no problem leaving them open on a warm night, a determined intruder would have to scale a garage or conservatory roof then hopefully enough noise would be made to alert us.

However when dh is away I do shut and lock them, it's like a bloody oven but I am an anxious sort.

I leave my window open at night. The fresh air that comes in helps me sleep and relaxes me.

I always sleep with my windows open - except currently I have a kitten in my room so I can only have the small top window open - I hate it - feels so stuffy

Always open at night, no matter how cold. Otherwise DW's sleep apnoea kicks in and I'm woken by coughing and retching.

I have windows open all year except when I lived in a bungalow for a short time and thought someone might come in through the bedroom window.

I thought it was recommended for good sleep hygiene.

Ours is always open unless it's very windy, very rainy or very cold. We're not troubled by noise as we live in a quiet cul de sac and bedroom is upstairs. I probably wouldn't leave a downstairs window open.

According to family legend windows open at night potentially saved my parents' lives once (gas leak in the caravan they were staying in).

I always have a window open. Even when I lived in the Baltics and it got down to minus 15 or so. I've also rigged up all sorts of fly screens to be able to leave them open in the summer.

DC rooms are the same, but I do use the little latch that locks them with a small gap, mainly to stop them messing rather than any fear of anyone getting in.

Open a few inches all year round (sash Windows, so can be locked to be open only this much). Can't sleep without the air circulating, although the noise from outside bothers me quite often (flat above a shop on main road, although my bedroom is to the rear).

I'm on the second floor though. Wouldn't want them opened on the ground floor. Then again, there are countless reasons I'd never want a ground floor flat again.