General Chat

it does make for a very comfortable bed.


There is an art to making the bed properly in the triple sheet system ............... and it describes it in that link I provided.

Will bave a look Sylvia

Lizxx

we use the 2 sheets and a light blanket in summer ................. and often end up with only the sheets.

It's definitely getting warmer in summer here

Bottom sheet and top sheet under duvet here as well.

Then only need to wash duvet cover once a month.

We have twin beds fitted bottom sheets, oh has sheet under his duvet ,I hate duvets so have a sheet, one or two cellular blankets and a top throw usually folded back easy to pull up if it gets cooler. when we go away I ask for one bed to have blankets and sheets....I have been known to take one sheet and blanket away with me too.....

I think I am going to adopt the idea for upstairs certainly for stays of over a week. OH says no to it on our bed as like me he will get tangled in the sheet !

Although I use two sheets, I never thought about not washing the duvet cover when I wash the sheets :-S
But then, with George (cat) sleeping on it, I ought to wash it once a week.
I still can't work out how a cat can come in the cat flap, walk the full length of the kitchen, through the living room across a huge rug, up the (carpeted) stairs, along the (carpeted) landing, across the bedroom rug (whichever bedroom), and leave muddy paw prints on my bed, the window sill or bedside table (depending on the bedroom) :-|

.........yet there are no muddy pawprints in the kitchen...... :-S :-S

he's the magic flying cat :-D

:-D :-D Upstairs is good!!

He certainly flies off the windowsill on to my bed - and lands with a thump :-|

That is, after he's wrestled himself from behind the wooden blind (which now has a wonderful patch of black oil from his fur rubbing against it) :-| :-| :-| :-|

We got home this afternoon, a few days away.

I had to let people know (especially Sylvia in Canada) that the bed was made using the 3-sheet method!

Bottom sheet, top sheet, blanket, then another sheet over the top. Then a silly skinny red "throw" across the bottom of the bed.

Everything tucked in SO tight! Very warm here, so one sheet & the blanket got put in a cupboard.

Lazy lot. :-0

We change our bottom sheet every day and duvet cover (king size) every other day. I cannot see the point in wearing woollies indoors or piling on blankets duvets and such so the CHS is set to 21 C daytime and 15 C overnight. Yes, it costs more in winter that's the trouble with love in a cold climate.

Keeps the cats happy too. Our British Blue cleans his paws before coming in - where he got this desirable habit from I know not. I just wish he did not jump on my head to announce breakfast time.

Couldn't be doing with the central heating on overnight. And I have better things to do with my life than wash a sheet (and dry it (no tumble drier here and iron it (OH insists on ironing sheets) every day. Temperature is set to 20 on from 0730 until 10.30 and from 4.30pm until 10.15pm every day.

If a person doesn't mind the laundering or has someone 'wot does' then fair enough. On the other hand, many people prefer a cool bedroom and if not too cold outside, fresh air. People with a physical disability are more likely to prefer a warmer room.

It's like the discussion on one of G007's threads - we all get used to different climates/temperatures.

Cotton flat sheets and duvet covers of what ever material get ironed. Fitted poly cotton sheets get folded and put away.

My OH is disabled and needs to be warm. Away from London I am the "person wot does" and don't find using an automatic washing machine + tumble dryer particularly onerous. Iron sheets? What on earth for.

In London I do have someone what does. Although the place is in chic (?) Islington I could not even contemplate buying it at current mad prices. It is what the estate agents call "unimproved" except for CHS as a modern system turned out to be cheaper than the pre-ww2 heavy cast iron rads. Rebus would prob. find it to his liking if he ever made a journey south.

Much of the nearby property has either been knocked down and rebuilt as apartments or converted resulting in a gross loss of neighbours or at any rate English speaking neighbours.

All the little ads offering to wash & iron duvets and other services though are still there though in the newsagents even if the phone boxes have disappeared lol. Back in the 1960s it was not uncommon to see people hanging out their washing but all that sort of thing is no longer tolerated.

Well yes if your OH is disabled then warmth is necessary. As I said no tumble drier, hence the need to iron sheeets dried indoors in the winter. (No room for a tumble drier either.) Last washer we had was a washer drier and it was not efficient, maybe they are better now so the next time the washing machine packs up we shall see. In the summer, line dried sheets don't always get ironed if I can sneak them in before he sees. :-) :-)

I stack the tumble dryers on top of the washing machine so there is no space problem. Venting is through the wall though some dryers nowadays don't need venting. What else would you put on top of a washing machine ?

The cat can open the dryer door and sometimes he'll go to sleep on the warm dry clothes real pain if I end up with a hairy shirt.

Washer dryers have never been efficient or reliable. AFAIK nothing much has changed.

I never iron anything it is a disgraceful waste of time. There are plenty of inexpensive ironing services who need the £. I do have a steam iron setup and an electric iron for emergencies. It was last used to iron a tie for Remembrance Sunday. The steam one is v dusty lol. In France we even have a flat iron heated on the gas. It works quite well.

Last night one of the Dragons was debating whether or not to invest in a custom clothing service. Initially he was sceptical of the need but later made an offer. No wonder, he obviously he hasn't someone who does his ironing - camera zooms in on stripy socks with stripy trousers. :-D

I have shelves over my washing machine and a lot of others have work tops so no space for a tumble dryer. I do have a tumble dryer (under another set of shelves) and luckily it doesn´t need venting through a wall as my utility room is on the semi wall and I don´t think the neighbours would be too impressed. Not that I ever use it as the electric it uses is high . I will say that I couldn´t be doing with washing sheets everyday or even every other day although one summer I have been known to change the sheets twice a week ....must have been a warm flush :-D :-D. The cost on the electric would be enough to change that habit.

I don´t iron sheets, sorry Ann there is an iron and board upstairs :-D. but I do fold immediately when I take them off the line.
Rollo if ironing is a waste of time is not changing beds, especially duvet covers also time consuming ?

Ann you will get 2 sheets and duvet cover :-D

Uzzi :-D Didn't notice the sheets were not ironed, neither did himself!! But theyw ere line dried so creases dropped out. That will be nice, thank you.

Rollo our washing machine is under the draining board of the sink, would look very strange with a tumble drier balanced up there in front of the window. One thing we missed when we moved here 23 years ago was the utility room.

LS


ah yes, the (coloured) skinny throw across the foot of the bed .....................


that's the "designer" touch :-)


most of the places we've been to seem to go for browns or burgundys




As far as heating is concerned ......................... we have 2 types of heating in our house.

One half is heated by blown air from a gas furnace. The other rooms by individual baseboard heating


We have the heating thermostats set at 20C during the day (effective temperature about 21C), and about 10-12C at night. In very cold weather, we set the night temperature at 15C ................ mainly because it can take so long to warm up in the morning after below freezing temperatures.


We don't have automatic sensors ................ we control turning on and off ourselves ................. so the thermostats are turned up when we get up in the morning. The thermostat for the gas furnace is turned down at about 10 or 10:30 pm, thus allowing the bedroom to cool down. We spend the rest of the evening in one of the rooms with baseboard heating ........... and that will be turned down when I go to bed (anywhere from 11 pm to 12:30 am)


This system works for us.



The bedroom window is open all year round ................. as little as about 1" on the coldest nights to as wide as possible on hot nights.

The kitchen window is open on all but the very coldest days.