Can a hot water bottle stay hot all night?

1. As a store of heat, aluminium foil is on par with fresh air.

2. Wrap the hot water bottle in a number of layers of loft insulation. The hot water in the bottle will remain warm for longer. On the downside, it won't keep you warm

(Candelle's husband)

I have my son’s hot water bottle cover - Babar the elephant - son is now 43 and hasn’t much need of it! 😂 The actual bottle has been replaced many times but Babar keeps them hot(ish) till morning.

You should wear socks to bed at night - even a thin pair will keep your feet warm and you’ll sleep like a newborn. You might never sleep without them again. Me.

I use a wheat bag which goes in the microwave for 3 minutes. It was made by me about 20 years ago and stayshot as long as I need it to.

You get electric blankets that stay on low all night

I was really interested about the failure of the foil balls in the Hotty - saves me having a go which I nearly did ! 😊

I’m a lifelong HWB user. If my feet are cold I’m cold. Just recently took my bottle to bed and woke in the night feeling very wet. My bottle had a leak. Stripping the bed at 3am was a pain and I moved into the spare room for the rest of the night. I later read that you should change your bottle every two years because it perishes.
New bottle purchased and bed aired. Have learned a lesson.

Foxyferret!! I had a belling flying saucer too! I loved it!! I slept in a Z bed and it had a wadding mattress folded up in it. The cosiest bed EVER!!🤩🤩

To keep warm I put a fleecy blanket over my bottom sheet and another beneath the duvet. It is so warm I don’t need a hot water bottle or electric blanket and if you need to go to the bathroom in the night, it is still warm when you get back into bed. I always wear socks to bed in the winter and that makes a difference. I also wear a fleece type hoodie to get into bed but find I’m so warm I have to take it off. Fleecy things are the way to go. You don’t have to worry about anything getting cold before morning. I don’t really trust electric blankets although I have used one in the past long ago.

Do you all live up north?!

I have a 13tog duvet with cotton sheets - no hwb or electric blanket and window open all night, sometimes I push the duvet down from my top and just sleep with the sheet as I’m too hot.

I do have an electric blanket but the last time I used it was when I had flu and couldn’t stop shivering and that was summer 2022 when it was over 30 😄

Actually the cosiest bed I can remember was staying at my aunts Cornish home. She had feather mattresses, think a very substantial duvet which sat on coiled spring metal base that creaked. So you sank into this and it surrounded you - incredibly cosy and warm. Probably medieval in origin😄😄.

Whitewavemark2

Actually the cosiest bed I can remember was staying at my aunts Cornish home. She had feather mattresses, think a very substantial duvet which sat on coiled spring metal base that creaked. So you sank into this and it surrounded you - incredibly cosy and warm. Probably medieval in origin😄😄.

My grandmother had feather mattresses on all her beds, on top of a thinnish ordinary one. They were fantastically comfortable, when my grandpa died I kept the one from their bed. However I doubt it was very good for her asthma.