This product is fantastic. I’ve slept with it for 5 nights and here are my impressions:
Duvet covers: Perfect. One is a luxuriously soft blanket-like fabric on both sides (with the raised circles on the top side only), and the other is made of the same soft, light fabric sheets are made of on both sides. Both duvets are blue on one side and light gray on the other, with a long zipper along one end and several ties inside to tie to the little loops along the edges of the weighted blanket itself. The ties stay tightened very well.
Weight: I weigh about 115 pounds and bought the 12-pound blanket. It feels great. When I first got in bed I immediately felt comfortable under it. It’s amazing. The amount of pressure is soothing.
Size: The 48×72” size is perfect for me.. It doesn’t move around or let drafts of air in, so it doesn’t need to be bigger. In fact, I wouldn’t want it any bigger. It would be cumbersome to have it hanging over the sides of the bed, due to the weight. It keeps me warm because it stays diwn around me, but it doesn’t feel too heavy. Occasionally it feels heavy on my toes right after I get into bed. That is easily fixed by creating some height around me toes within the blanket.
Temperature: even with the warmer duvet cover on, the blanket feels cool when I get into bed unless I warm up the blanket with a heating pad and turn up the heat in the room for a while before bed. Otherwise it sucks the heat out of me and I feel cold. When that happened the first few nights, I added some blankets on top. But then I fell asleep and woke up hours later blazing hot. The glass beads retain the heat longer than regular blankets, so it took a while for the blanket to cool down after I took it off me. Major sleep interruption! The same thing happened with the lighter, summertime duvet cover. So I learned to warm up the blanket before bed. I still start with an extra blanket, but I can remove it shortly—before I fall asleep.
Bottom line, if you’re looking for a quality weighted blanket with two nice duvet covers, you’re safe with this one.
I’m curious if beads of different materials prevent the cooling-heating problem. I can’t say.
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