Self isolating in the cold conservatory

[coldconservatory]

Hi all,

We have had covid recently and I need to self isolate before Christmas.

AIBU to think that I can sleep and work in the conservatory for the next two weeks so I can then visit my daughter for Christmas.

It's large and I already work in there everyday as working from home.

My partner and the children all go to school which is how we got covid in the first place.

There is a downstairs bathroom that I can use. I would only have to go upstairs to shower. Which I could possibly do every 3 days so or.

I'm the only one home during the day so I can make food, do washing etc after cleaning.

My main issue is that the conservatory is so, so cold! I usually wear several layers to work in there during the day.

I can bring a mattress down and we have lots of duvets and blankets I can use.

Need to possibly get gloves and a hat.

Any ideas of how else I can keep warm overnight please?

I'm unsure about how many people who are asking if DE and I are female or not. We are, why would the answers be different regarding being warm in a room?!

Are you a woman married to a woman, or a man married to a woman?

Why can't your daughter who lives with your mother come home now if college work is online?

Unless that daughter is staying at home in your mother's house, locked down, she risks infecting your mother anyway. I doubt very much if someone aged 16-18 is self isolating between now and Xmas.

As for keeping warm- buy a few convector heaters and a 4-season sleeping bag from a supplier and snuggle down.

I used to live in a house with no heating and woke up every day in winter to ice on the inside of my bedroom windows.

Why does your own child live with your mother OP if she is working entirely online? College distance doesn't matter, does it?

Is your daughter vulnerable? People have visited me over lockdown (single person household) and I've not made any of them self-isolate beforehand.

@coldconservatory

I'm unsure about how many people who are asking if DE and I are female or not. We are, why would the answers be different regarding being warm in a room?!

Well I want to ask why you want to keep your gender such a secret!

if it's same sex marriage why can't you say so?

Men are more likely to catch Covid, as are older middle aged men.

That's why.

Oh, god, I don't understand any of this. But basic common sense says you protect your lungs from the cold. Throw in Covid and you doubly protect your lungs. Bizarre cold sleepouts are unnecessary stressors in this time, I would have thought.

[quote MaxNormal]@coldconservatory I've literally linked the recent BMJ article twice.
Third time lucky?

www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4257[/quote]
Thanks, got lost in the replies, will read it now, appreciate you posting again

Any ideas of how else I can keep warm overnight please?

Yeah, don't sleep in the conservatory.

If you have two bathrooms in the house, are either of them large enough to be an option and possibly warmer than the conservatory?

All 5 of you tested positive twice? I feel like you should write a paper on that or something.

I think you are mad. Is there no better way? The chance of you getting covid again so soon is pretty much non existent, you are going to sleep in a freezing cold conservatory for 2 weeks? Surely you could just be a bit cautious when living together given how low the risk is anyway.

This is mad.
You buy heaters, wear thermals and get a decent sleeping bag.

But as you are breathing, eating, showering and so on in the same house as other children and a woman who works in a school, staying in the conservatory for 4 weeks is not risk-free anyway.

And you re-assess the risks including having a teenage daughter living with a vulnerable older mother (your mother.)

Maybe re-think Christmas.

Why does your DD not come home to you and then you all meet your mum in her garden on Xmas day? Lots of families are going to have outside meals or meeting just to say Hello then scarper.

Why doesnt your daughter just come home now? Then over christmas everyone stays relatively isolated, she will be pretty safe to go back to your DM

Anyone else thought this was Peter Andre posting what with so many posts about how much OP loves his kid?

Why don’t you just get some sleeping bags and either have DSC share a room or DW share a room with SDC? Or you sleep in the living room?

Look, I'm being cautious about Covid. But assuming your tests are correct and you're one of the small number of people to have got it twice, you'd have to be spectacularly unlucky to get it a third time (has anyone been recorded as catching it 3 times?) and so soon after the second bout. You'd be some kind of medical marvel and vaccination teams will be knocking on your door to take you away to their lab I really think you're putting yourself through this unnecessarily. Get a test just before Christmas Day to put your mind at rest.

*her kid

You don't have to isolate from the people you caught it from!

@katy1213

You don't have to isolate from the people you caught it from!

RTFT- she's worried about getting it for a 3rd time.

The FT wasn't that interesting so I didn't.

This thread is all kinds of batshit

katy but your comment is irrelevant if you don’t RTFT!

@coldconservatory sorry, I was a bit snappy, no need.

I would sleep in the living room and then air it well each morning before other people get up. Will also mean you aren't sleeping and working in the same place.

Look for base layers much warmer than thermals.

Warm hat or hooded blanket

I did the same back in October and isolated in the conservatory. We managed. I used the downstairs cloakroom which no one else used and wore a mask when I left the conservatory. I wiped down all surfaces in the kitchen, light switches etc and also cleaned the bathroom and left windows open after use.

It was hard but we managed for the 2 weeks. For keeping warm at night, wear pyjamas, socks and have a duvet or a couple of warm throws. I also have a portable heater to warm it up before I go to bed. A hat or hoody would help as well. I sleep in there if I'm ill and with the layers its manageable.

No one got ill, I was a contact and not positive.

Stew - make a big batch, freeze and insist that it's brought to you nice and hot with bread from time to time.from time to time.

To keep warm as seems you have most other keeping warm measures in place.

Irrespective of Covid - when else will you be able to go and self-isolate in your Conservatory again? The bonus in your case is that you can make it look like a great hardship that you are undertaking in order to protect others, coz it's a bit chilly - but in reality wouldn't we all like to go self-isolate in our 'conservatories' or similar every so often?

“Stew - make a big batch, freeze and insist that it's brought to you nice and hot with bread from time to time.from time to time.“

But OP is trying to hide from all humans.

@Purpleguitar

I did the same back in October and isolated in the conservatory. We managed. I used the downstairs cloakroom which no one else used and wore a mask when I left the conservatory. I wiped down all surfaces in the kitchen, light switches etc and also cleaned the bathroom and left windows open after use.

It was hard but we managed for the 2 weeks. For keeping warm at night, wear pyjamas, socks and have a duvet or a couple of warm throws. I also have a portable heater to warm it up before I go to bed. A hat or hoody would help as well. I sleep in there if I'm ill and with the layers its manageable.

No one got ill, I was a contact and not positive.

Thank you, that's really useful. I would prefer to do it and be as careful as I can rather than not.