Measuring the TOG value of a duvet

I've got a strange animal, but it's a dog...

I can quite happily live with dogs, if my wife could. She hates them, but I have had a dog around me until I married at the age of 25. And a few months later, when my father had to go into hospital and left his dog with us.

Dave

Thus provoking shrieks of outrage as you drag cold bits of duvet over her...

-- Halmyre

Maybe I fostered a cat for a few months that was resued from a house where the owners had done a runner and left the cat home alone. The thing was petrified of soft things such as cushions, duvets, setees etc. It used to sleep on my bedside cabinet at night.

Adam

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Dave saying something like:

A case for an extra-wide duvet, methinks.

Or seperate beds ;-)

Separate duvets, certainly, which is the solution we adopted years ago due to my wife's habit of rolling the duvet round herself and leaving me out in the cold.

Agreed. And very nice for both of us. (After experience of exactly that in a hotel in Riga where it seemed to work very well.) But the difference between down and polyester (of whatever type) is also huge. Down duvets drape so much better and, somehow, seem to work well across a much wider range of bedroom temperatures.

Rod :

We have a silk-filled duvet, which, although not cheap, seems to combine the best properties of down and polyester.

Agreed. Got a lightweight one of those as well - summer choice.

Bought from China (ebay, I think) - partner used 'make an offer' and got them at a very much lower price than UK retail - around £40 including postage for a single.

Much better to have an endless duvet that wraps around the bottom of the bed?

Thomas Prufer