Help me solve this velux window problem

[strawberrylaces88]

We have a velux window directly above our bed. We don't usually close the blind as it's a horrible brown colour left by the previous owners and I quite like waking up and seeing the sky. It has dropped below freezing overnight a few times recently and you can really feel the cold almost falling from the window onto us. If I pull the blind down then condensation builds up on the window and drips down onto my pillow. I've just woken up to a completely soaking pillow. Annoyingly only on my side of the bed

I probably wouldn't care if it was just us (we've lived in colder draughtier places before) but we have a 10 week old baby who likes her hands out for sucking on and I'm worried she'll get too cold. Don't think I'm being PFB about it, the temperature in her cot got down to 13 degrees last week and any guidelines for what baby should wear in bed suggest a hat and mittens for anything below 15!

So what is the answer? How do keep the cold out without it creating condensation on the window? There isn't really another place the bed can go in the room due to the sloped ceilings.

Have you tried one of those “film” things? I’ve got one on the wee one’s large window as it would get soooo much condensation every day and you could really feel the cold coming in from it. It’s basically like cling film, you stick it on with tape and then put the hair dryer to it to get out all the creases. Can hardly see it at all when it’s on. It’s stopped the condensation on that window fully for us. Around £10/15 certainly worth a try.

@Toodeloo thank you, that's a good idea. I bought the cling film stuff in our old flat for ginormous draughty single glazed windows and it was useless, I could never get the window dry enough for it to stick. But I imagine it'll be a lot easier to stick onto this size of window. Not sure how I'm going to play it tonight, warm baby and wet pillow or just wrap her up and hope for the best! My dad remembers scraping the ice off the inside of his window when he was wee and he survived.

Is the cold coming through vent holes near the handle or through gaps around the window edges? If so you buy adhesive insulation tape quite cheaply to stick over the draughty areas.

@CoolShoeshine just checked, there doesn't seem to be any draughts, it's just that it's so cold outside the pane gets so cold and then the cold sort of falls onto the bed if the blind isn't closed. I'm going to keep it open tonight and have the heating on a few times overnight to see if that keeps the chill away. It's minus 4 out there already 🥶

Why don’t you get a new, thermal blind? Blind2go do good cheap velux blinds

Would a new blind prevent the condensation building up behind it? We tried to get new blinds in the summer but there are 2 windows and one is a non standard size and no blind companies were particularly interested in helping. Last night wasn't so bad. Blind up, heating on 11-12, 30 mins at 3am then 7-9. Maybe that's the answer and keeps the chill away.

@Handsnotwands will check out blind2go, thank you!

Move the bed 2 foot away from the wall? That way the pillow wouldn’t be in line with the dripping condensation

The condensation shouldn’t be happening if the room is warmer, should it

Just a thought could you sleep the other end of bed & place a big towel over foot end? just for the winter