To sleep with the windows open?

[SunSunGoAwayButNotCompletelyPlease]

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?

Oh heck. They are awful. But I thought clothes/carpet moths can't fly properly? Just a bit of fluttering a v short distance? Do they actually enter this way?

I’m married to an American and until then had never really considered screens on windows. Now we have them on all the upstairs windows and I wonder why it’s not common!

I have air conditioning. Best expense ever.

Me too!

I wonder whether this is influenced by the type of windows everyone has.

my bedroom window is open pretty much constantly from March to November, and occasionally in the depths of winter if it’s mild. But it’s a top opener on the second floor. No one could get in easily (unless they were or quietly. If they were sash windows or fully opening ones I’d be less keen. Even though I’ve never been able to open a sash window easily or quietly, I’m sure some people can.

Spiders get in through the cracks anyway, bats aren’t a concern for me, and I like a spot of noise. Foxes can make a bit of a racket but it’s rare.

The living room windows are fully opening but are also locked on vent.

I’ve also lived in a ground floor flat with window restrictors/locks. Left them open a crack too when it was sweltering but was less keen even with the locks on - mostly due to noise as the head of the bed was about 5 metres from a busy footpath.

*unless they were slight, that should say.

I sleep with the window open year round, I struggle to sleep without fresh air.

The bat thing is scaremongering. We have had bats in the house - which didn’t come in through open windows or doors (thanks cats) - and can agree with a pp that they would have no interest in biting you randomly while you sleep. We had a bat expert come in for one and they said that them carrying rabies would be very unlikely in the UK, and they also picked it up with their hands so clearly had no worries about it. Cats have been fine too!

I would be amazed about the bats!

We had a bat in DS's bedroom last week. Stayed for two nights because when DS put the light on, it hid and then the bat was obviously sleeping the whole day. Finally managed to get it out about 11 pm. We live in the middle of a city.

@SunSunGoAwayButNotCompletelyPlease

Do you mean Ground Floor, not first floor?

if you do mean first floor how do you think people are going to get in?

I have to shut mine because of the chuffing owls kicking off !

I’m so jealous !

I wouldn't leave a ground floor bedroom window open where I live now (London) but I do sleep with the upstairs window open most of the year.

This is why I don't like ground floor unless you have small windows. You can buy latches J think?

@SunSunGoAwayButNotCompletelyPlease you can get window restrictors. I was contemplating it last year for the cat to come in and out but the window in mind was too far away for us to hear if someone was attempting to break in. I imagine they would last 5 mins against bolt cutters though.
We are currently looking at bungalows and the window open in summer issue does slightly make me nervous. Weirdly, near me, many of the bungalows have a patio door in the main bedroom rather than a window. I feel that’s just asking for someone to walk in.

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Our bedroom window is open 24/7 throughout the year unless the window cleaner is coming or it's stupidly windy.

We even have it open in the depths of winter when it's -15 outside at night

But first floor wouldn't bother me unless it was a massive opening with something like a flat roof below.

I sleep the majority of the year with the window open. With the heat all of my first floor windows are open 24/7 when there is someone in the house.

Why does is make you uncomfortable, OP?

All of our bedroom windows are open as wide as they’ll go right now. We have ours open to some extent all year round.

Europe's a fairly big and varied place, the UK doesn't really have screens because it's fucking freezing most of the time but southern Europe definitely does. DH is from Sicily and every window is screened there because of the 70 million mosquitoes per square metre.

We have three windows in our bedroom, all wide open at night currently, at least one is open year- round.

I think even in high crime areas it's unusual for intruders to enter through a first floor window when people are in the building.

Same here 😀

Window open pretty much all year, except in extreme temps like -20, or if there's a storm raging.

In over 30 years of adulthood a bat has only flown in once, about 25 years ago. I phoned the bat people in the morning, who told me to pop it in a box, put it somewhere cool and let it out at dusk.

Currently live in suburbia and it's lovely and quiet here at night compared to all the animal screechings when I lived in the countryside.

I'd be a bit wary of leaving amy window wide open at night if I lived in a bungalow, though.

I close the windows/blinds in the day when the air is hotter outside than in (never understood people who leave them open all day when it is 21ish inside and 30 outside).

I leave my windows open at night in 1st floor bedroom. There's an inside latch system and unless they were that melty guy from the X files, no-one could get in.

I need fresh air at night all year round.

I'm in East London, ground floor flat, and keep massive sash window in the bedroom open 24/7 unless it's freezing outside. No human, bat or spider invasions so far. I'm screaming sometimes woken by screaming babies, annoying neighbours partying and foxes getting busy but I'd expire with the widows closed.

It's open.
I was burgled once at my ground floor flat. the police came I told them the people above were away. She said 'we rarely get anyone breaking in the first floor - ground floor is easy to get in and out'.
I live in London, my first floor bedroom faces the street. I'm not worried.