Silentnight Comfort Control Electric Blanket review

I assumed electrical blankets had been all heated quilts that you simply wrapped your self in or pulled on high of your self like a cover, however most of them are literally skinny heated sheets you place completely beneath the fitted sheet in your mattress.

In case you’re all for a heated blanket that’ll cowl you on the couch or in mattress, take a look at our assessment of the Glamhaus heated throw.

I’ve been testing the king measurement Silentnight Consolation Management electrical blanket throughout a chilly snap within the UK and have been grateful for what it supplies – a fast solution to warmth up your mattress earlier than you hop in, at a comparatively low value in comparison with central heating or plug-in heaters.

This blanket is an efficient, easy choice however it’s not with out its flaws, which I’d not have anticipated contemplating its worth of £55.

Design & options

The Consolation Management has the same design to most under-sheet electrical blankets. It’s a easy fleecy blanket product of polyester that you simply connect to the highest of your mattress or mattress comforter with elastic straps.

It’s very simple to placed on, however I instantly discovered the king measurement blanket isn’t really king measurement. It measures ‎165 x 137cm, whereas a normal king mattress within the UK is 200 x 150cm.

In response to Silentnight’s photographs, the blanket must be positioned on the foot of the mattress, leaving a spot from roughly your shoulders as much as the highest of your pillow the place it doesn’t attain.

This creates two issues. The primary is the highest of the mattress doesn’t get heat! I felt the nippiness of the mattress within the winter far more keenly and would moderately my high half be heat after I received in after having the blanket on – but when I moved the blanket up it meant the mattress was chilly the place my toes lie, because the blanket doesn’t attain that far.

My shorter spouse didn’t have the identical situation.

Silentnight additionally makes the blanket in single, double, and tremendous king sizes. The latter is identical width because the king at 165cm and is just 10cm longer at 147cm. Why aren’t any of the blankets the identical measurement because the mattress?

I’ve used different electrical blankets that cowl a lot of the mattress and located them far more satisfying. I discovered with this too-small sizing that the blanket additionally tended to bunch up or skew sideways after a number of nights.

The opposite situation with the Silentnight is the positioning of the connector. The blanket has coiled wire inside that heats up if you change it on, so it wants a cable related to the mains to plug in someplace.

That connector essentially sits on the left hand facet of the mattress as you have a look at it from the foot of the mattress. It must be there so you possibly can entry the hanging three-level warmth controller when mendacity down.

This occurs to be my facet of the mattress. Due to the scale of the blanket, the connector sits exactly the place I lie, and I typically rolled onto it painfully within the evening. It is a flawed design.

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Different electrical blankets exist with two separate sides so every individual in a bigger mattress can management their temperature. The Consolation Management has only one management, so in case you share a mattress you’ll should agree whether or not you need it set to 1, two, or three.

I discovered stage one too low for the coldest nights. Usually, setting it on stage two for an hour earlier than bedtime received the sheets good and heat with out being uncomfortable. Degree three is noticeably toasty, however an excellent setting to shortly heat the mattress must you overlook or be significantly chilly.

It is a easy electrical blanket and doesn’t have any ‘good’ options or expertise that may alter the temperature in any means. It’s both on or off, although Silentnight says it has ‘overheat safety’.

You can even machine wash the blanket after eradicating the connector.

How a lot does it value to run?

Electrical blankets are a price efficient solution to warmth your mattress. The king measurement Silentnight Consolation Management can warmth at as much as 90 watts on the extent three setting, which works out at about 3p per hour of use on the time of writing in January 2023.

Degree one heats at 28 watts which is 1p per hour, and stage two at 51 watts which is 2p per hour.

That is significantly cheaper than working central heating or an electrical plug-in heater.

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Value & availability

The Silentnight Consolation Management is an entry stage electrical blanket with probably the most primary of options: three ranges of warmth.

The king measurement blanket I examined prices £55 direct from Silentnight or Amazon UK. It’s additionally out there in single, double, and tremendous king sizes from these retailers.

It’s not out there within the US.

Verdict

The Silentnight Consolation Management electrical blanket is a straightforward and comparatively inexpensive electrical blanket that might prevent significantly on electrical energy or heating payments, costing about 3p per hour to make use of on the highest setting.

It’s virtually too easy given there’s just one management for the entire mattress, whereas different electrical blankets are divided into two for you and a associate to regulate individually must you need totally different temperatures.

The blanket can be smaller than the mattress measurement it corresponds to, so it’s possible you’ll need to measurement up, and the cable connector within the high left nook sits uncomfortably near the place one individual lies.

Regardless of these downsides, that is nonetheless a reliable and environment friendly electrical blanket that heats up shortly and has an overheating security characteristic.

For one more shopping for choice, take a look at our assessment of the Cosi Dwelling electrical blanket.

Specs

• 165 x 137cm
• Polyester
• Three warmth settings
• Most output 90 watts (round 3p per hour)
• Overheat safety