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To sleep with the windows open?

119 replies

SunSunGoAwayButNotCompletelyPlease · 18/06/2023 00:15

All the bedrooms are on the first floor and it's gets really hot and stuffy if we don't open the windows wide. It always makes me a bit uncomfortable though.

What do other people do?

OP posts:
LanaDelRaybans · 18/06/2023 00:16

I found these nets on Amazon, you can't even tell they're on the windows but it allows me to have them wide open without spiders creeping in! Best sleep I've had in years, it's so refreshing have a gentle breeze float in

PerfectYear321 · 18/06/2023 00:17

LanaDelRaybans · 18/06/2023 00:16

I found these nets on Amazon, you can't even tell they're on the windows but it allows me to have them wide open without spiders creeping in! Best sleep I've had in years, it's so refreshing have a gentle breeze float in

Link please

ForensicFlossy · 18/06/2023 00:17

I have the bedroom window open 24/7 365 days a year!

NuffSaidSam · 18/06/2023 00:17

Why does sleeping with the windows open make you uncomfortable? Why would it be unreasonable?!

I sleep with the window open year round. I understand it's 6bot for everyone but never considered having the windows open in my own house might be unreasonable!

TheChosenTwo · 18/06/2023 00:17

I just open them wide, they’ve been open for weeks. Are you saying you’ve been sleeping with them closed?

NoSquirrels · 18/06/2023 00:17

Pretty sure most of the country is sleeping with the windows open this last couple of weeks.

We always have a bedroom window open year-round. Nothing terrible has befallen is yet (except an adventurous cat in the early hours).

TheChosenTwo · 18/06/2023 00:17

to be honest, my bedroom window is open all year round!!

bridgetreilly · 18/06/2023 00:18

I sleep on the ground floor and I still have the window open most of the time. Fresh air is good for you!

AlltheFs · 18/06/2023 00:19

Always open here, although we live in the arse end of nowhere.

The drawback for us is the spiders in the thatch, the fecking owls and the dawn chorus.

EBearhug · 18/06/2023 00:21

Bedroom window always open unless there's heavy snow.

Housekeeperbatcocoa · 18/06/2023 00:22

My windows are all open currently.

Original poster
SunSunGoAwayButNotCompletelyPlease · 18/06/2023 00:23

I'd never even thought of spiders. I don't think I'd mind spiders so much. I usually just latch them open or ventilate the rooms for a while and then close the windows when we go to bed but it's just so hot right now.

I feel uncomfortable because theoretically someone could enter through the window.

OP posts:
AlltheFs · 18/06/2023 00:26

SunSunGoAwayButNotCompletelyPlease · 18/06/2023 00:23

I'd never even thought of spiders. I don't think I'd mind spiders so much. I usually just latch them open or ventilate the rooms for a while and then close the windows when we go to bed but it's just so hot right now.

I feel uncomfortable because theoretically someone could enter through the window.

If you don’t have thatch spiders won’t be so much of an issue.

Suppose it depends where you live but odds here of a burglar are slim. I had my windows open when living in London although not wide, they were locked open but not fully. Never had an issue although I did close them when out.

Frances0911 · 18/06/2023 00:27

No, as only just managed to get rid of an infestation of moths by getting rid of my wool carpets. I think I'd have a breakdown if they came back again as ruined so many clothes, carpets, and even flying on my face during the night.

InTheFutilityRoomEatingBiscuits · 18/06/2023 00:28

I can’t sleep with the windows open and never have. I open them daily but on the daytime.

Its not about intruders but about noise. Does everyone live in the middle of the countryside?

I get woken a few times a night as it is with dogs barking, loud people passing by, babies crying, cars driving past, cats fighting, foxes shrieking. I’m only in boring suburbia. It’s mostly the dogs and babies and people walking home from the pub. With the windows open I’d never get any rest.

purpleme12 · 18/06/2023 00:30

My bedroom window is.
But don't like any other windows open in night.
Don't even like my child's open in night as she's at the front

CC4712 · 18/06/2023 00:31

What do other people do?

I have a fan in the bedroom. I wouldn't have the window open at night in the UK unless there is a screen. Not only for mosquitos but bats.

I realise that might sound bonkers, but UK bats can indeed carry a type of rabies (Lyssavirus). I used to work in this area, and it was amazing how many people in the UK wake to find a bat flying around their bedroom and try to shoo it out and get bitten, or wake when they are bitten at night whilst sleeping! Then follows weeks of rabies vaccines! NO thank you.

MysteryBelle · 18/06/2023 00:31

Fresh air is essential. You are 100% correct.

NoSquirrels · 18/06/2023 00:34

CC4712 · 18/06/2023 00:31

What do other people do?

I have a fan in the bedroom. I wouldn't have the window open at night in the UK unless there is a screen. Not only for mosquitos but bats.

I realise that might sound bonkers, but UK bats can indeed carry a type of rabies (Lyssavirus). I used to work in this area, and it was amazing how many people in the UK wake to find a bat flying around their bedroom and try to shoo it out and get bitten, or wake when they are bitten at night whilst sleeping! Then follows weeks of rabies vaccines! NO thank you.

I would be amazed about the bats! How many people?

Kanaloa · 18/06/2023 00:34

I always sleep with the windows open if the weather permits. Even if it’s not super warm. I probably wouldn’t if I was on the ground floor but luckily I’m not! It’s refreshing and relaxing to have the breeze coming in. I don’t worry a bit about spiders. I mean plenty of them live in my house as it is, they’re hardly going to see the open window and come flocking to my bedroom. And even if they did, what are they going to do? Crawl round my bedroom?

AlltheFs · 18/06/2023 00:36

CC4712 · 18/06/2023 00:31

What do other people do?

I have a fan in the bedroom. I wouldn't have the window open at night in the UK unless there is a screen. Not only for mosquitos but bats.

I realise that might sound bonkers, but UK bats can indeed carry a type of rabies (Lyssavirus). I used to work in this area, and it was amazing how many people in the UK wake to find a bat flying around their bedroom and try to shoo it out and get bitten, or wake when they are bitten at night whilst sleeping! Then follows weeks of rabies vaccines! NO thank you.

I really couldn’t get excited about that. We often have bats in- just ignore them
and they go away. You have to try hard to
get bitten by a bat. They aren’t exactly predatory.

continentallentil · 18/06/2023 00:38

You can get window lock things on Amazon, so it’s like a latch with a key lock that holds it open.

I could not imagine sleeping with the window closed and no aircon in this weather.

continentallentil · 18/06/2023 00:39

InTheFutilityRoomEatingBiscuits · 18/06/2023 00:28

I can’t sleep with the windows open and never have. I open them daily but on the daytime.

Its not about intruders but about noise. Does everyone live in the middle of the countryside?

I get woken a few times a night as it is with dogs barking, loud people passing by, babies crying, cars driving past, cats fighting, foxes shrieking. I’m only in boring suburbia. It’s mostly the dogs and babies and people walking home from the pub. With the windows open I’d never get any rest.

Earplugs

Summerfun54321 · 18/06/2023 00:41

Have you ever actually tried to enter a house through a window on a first floor OP? It's very difficult to climb into a window from a ladder, it's definitely not how someone would try and Rob you. Ground floors and pitched roofs leading from ground to first floor are far more vulnerable and should have locks.

continentallentil · 18/06/2023 00:41

CC4712 · 18/06/2023 00:31

What do other people do?

I have a fan in the bedroom. I wouldn't have the window open at night in the UK unless there is a screen. Not only for mosquitos but bats.

I realise that might sound bonkers, but UK bats can indeed carry a type of rabies (Lyssavirus). I used to work in this area, and it was amazing how many people in the UK wake to find a bat flying around their bedroom and try to shoo it out and get bitten, or wake when they are bitten at night whilst sleeping! Then follows weeks of rabies vaccines! NO thank you.

It’s honestly not that common to be bitten by a bat in your bedroom, unlikely in fact.

Although one got into mine when I was a baby and my mum did an excellent impression of my dad trying to get it out.

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