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Anyone else finding their summer duvet far too hot?

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Witzend Thu 05-Jul-18 15:34:08

We have an all seasons duvet - the summer bit is 4.5 tog. We keep kicking it off, but do want some sort of cover.

I've just been looking on the JL website - there's an all-cotton 2.5 tog and I'm seriously tempted.
If I nip down and buy one later, what's the betting the weather changes PDQ?

PamelaJ1 Thu 05-Jul-18 15:37:49

No problem here.
How about a sheet?

Nantofran Thu 05-Jul-18 15:39:30

Or just take the duvet out and use the cover on its own?

Melanieeastanglia Thu 05-Jul-18 15:45:45

Using the cover on its own is cooler, I find. However, we're getting warmer weather generally these days so it won't be a waste of money if you buy a lighter quilt. Hopefully you will be able to use it for many future years!

Witzend Thu 05-Jul-18 15:49:43

Not sure just a sheet or duvet cover would be quite enough for dh, who will only sleep in the buff all year round.
Might just go mad and get the bus to JL later.
On holiday recently at a relative's place in France, we slept under a feather-light duvet - it was lovely. Couldn't see a tog rating on it, or what it was made of, though.

Squiffy Thu 05-Jul-18 16:34:08

2.5 tog for me! My higher togs are feather & down, but the 2.5 is manmade - light as a feather.

DanniRae Thu 05-Jul-18 16:40:44

I just sleep on top of the duvet for most of the night - it's a 4.5 - and then get under it if I get chilly in the early morning. I note the poster wants some sort of cover - I used to feel like that - but soon got used to sleeping without any.

Niobe Thu 05-Jul-18 16:44:36

I use a cotton sheet that was hand embroidered by my mother for her 'bottom drawer'. I also leave a fan on all night at the moment.

ninathenana Thu 05-Jul-18 16:55:08

Duvet is folded back but then we don't have summer and winter versions. The fan is on all night. One of us might pull the duvet up if we get up at silly o'clock to go to the bathroom.
What about a sheet and thin blanket or do as someone I know does and put the blanket in the duvet cover.

annodomini Thu 05-Jul-18 16:56:44

I'm sleeping under a sheet with the fan on to keep the bedroom cool while I drop off. Usually I can switch it off it I wake up to use the loo after which I go back to sleep immediately.

Bathsheba Thu 05-Jul-18 17:04:24

I fold the duvet to the bottom of the bed and just tuck my feet under, with a fan on all night. If it gets a bit chillier I just pull it back over..... but invariably kick it off again later!

Witzend Thu 05-Jul-18 17:43:30

Bum. I did go to JL but they didn't have the cotton one, only a Hungarian goose down at more than twice the price. Stuff that.

jusnoneed Thu 05-Jul-18 17:54:09

Myself and my son have just the duvet covers on our beds (and they are often thrown back), windows and doors open to try and get cool air in.
My OH still has a winter duvet on his, door and windows closed!!!

Tartlet Thu 05-Jul-18 18:05:31

I have a Fogarty tog 1 quilt which I use in warm weather and which is fine for all but the hottest nights when I just use an empty duvet cover.

I never use more than a 4.5 tog ‘summer’ quilt even during the winter.

hildajenniJ Thu 05-Jul-18 18:10:35

I've folded up my 10.5 together duvet, cover and all, and put it away. I threw another duvet cover on my bed and put the 4.5 together duvet on top. Nobody sees the bedroom but me, so I'm not bothered that it doesn't look pretty.

hildajenniJ Thu 05-Jul-18 18:11:34

What's with this phone? It doesn't understand tog.

grannyactivist Thu 05-Jul-18 19:52:46

My summer duvet is only 4.5 tog - perfect. I actually kept it on the bed from last summer, but put my counterpane on top in the winter and it was just right.
Oh, did I mention the electric blanket warmed the bed first? grin
Right now I'm in a hotel room in the midlands and when we arrived the room was arctic cold - two hours later it's still cold and we switched off the air con as soon as we arrived!

JustALaugh Thu 05-Jul-18 20:44:06

I have the 4.5 tog duvet on all year round. In VERY cold weather, I put a blanket on top. In this heat, I'm just sleeping on top of the bed, with a sheet over me, and every window in the house open.

Willow500 Thu 05-Jul-18 20:52:00

I still have the winter one on but fold it back over the end of the bed and just have a sheet on - I sleep in the buff too so like to have something over me but when I get up in the early hours I pull the quilt back over as it's cooled down. I can't have the window open as it's a patio door out onto a balcony at the front and can't sleep with a fan on. My husband does have his on all night blowing on his head along with his C-pap machine blowing air up his nose shock

Jalima1108 Thu 05-Jul-18 21:03:38

We've got a 2.5 tog very light summer duvet and it's fine, haven't resorted to just a sheet yet.

Marthjolly1 Thu 05-Jul-18 21:34:49

Just a good crisp cotton sheet for us. I sleep with my feet out of the covers all year round too. I would love to have the windows open but noise from the motorway causes a disturbance even though it's a couple of miles away.

lemongrove Thu 05-Jul-18 22:36:33

We have a light Summer duvet ( folded back) and a cotton sheet, mainly just using a sheet.The fan is on(and off) as needed, and the window wide open.All makes for a fitful and broken night’s sleeep doesn’t it? No wonder I doze off in the afternoon.

Redtop1 Thu 05-Jul-18 22:42:21

I put a fitted bottom sheet on the bed, then a flat sheet and a summer tog duvet on top. If it is hot when I go to bed I fold the duvet back on itself (length wise) to the middle of the bed and just have the cool sheet covering me. DH is always cold so he stays snuggled up in the sheet and duvet. If I wake up feeling cooler in the night I just flip the duvet back to cover me. Works well for us.

MawBroon Thu 05-Jul-18 22:42:46

Ditched the duvet, flat cotton sheet.

lemongrove Thu 05-Jul-18 22:48:11

Not like Winter is it, when everyone puts an extra dog or two on the bed.grin