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13/7/2013 at 12:00pm
Location: wirral
Outfit: Outwell Nevada m Vango sigma 300
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Hot water bottle, they are great.
Upgrade your sleeping bag. Use a sleeping bag liner (I use a fleecy one, for the colder months).
Insulate between you and the bed. With airbeds there is only thin plastic, between you and a block of ice air. I use faux fur blanket, sheep fleece and blankets. Duvets in colder months. Also helps with absorbing condensation.
Thermals, socks, hat. With that lot. you won't need heating, through the night, you will be too hot
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Make sure you are warm before you go to bed. A walk will do. Your bed will already be warm with the hot water bottle.
I love my air bed. I have it nice and soft, so I can sink in.
I have tried the SIMs out in camp shops. For me I find them too uncomfortable. It includes the thickest ones you can buy.
Have fun,
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10/8/2013 at 10:46am
Location: Moray Scotland
Outfit: Madjai
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Quote: Originally posted by BCML on 13/7/2013
Wow, I'm surprised how cold people get in the night - maybe because we sleep with the bedroom windows fully open all year we're more 'conditioned'? Anyway we have a thick Outwell Vacanza air bed with Go camping rolls underneath (2single mats side by side) and our duvet from our bed at home. Works an absolute treat! 
I do wonder if the temperature you are used to at home plays a part. Like yourself, we usually have the windows open at night. We also live in an old, draughty cottage with no central heating (just a woodburner in the living room) and this will be the first year we will have double glazing for the winter.
All of us (myself, hubby and three kids) tend to be too hot rather than too cold in most situation. The kids and I wild camped last September and were all toasty in our shelters (tarps over handmade wooden frames) with just roll mats, layers (thermals, long sleeved t shirt, fleece jumper, socks and hats) and sleeping bags. I got soaked (old, leaky tarp plus a very wet night) to the point my sleeping bag needed wringing out in the morning but was not uncomfortably cold. For the camp in November I bought myself one of these http://www.militarymart.co.uk/index.php?_a=product&product_id=1892 mainly for the waterproofing qualities but the mat is fab as well. Very heavy and bulky though. Sleeping around the fire, inside that plus sleeping bag and layers, even in November in Scotland, I was too warm and had to remove some layers!
If you feel the cold, thermals are a good investment along with cosy socks and a hat (you lose a huge amount of heat through your head) and as others have said, try to avoid getting cold in the first place. It is difficult to warm back up once you are feeling cold. Several layers are also better than one thick layer as the air between the layers provides insulation.
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10/8/2013 at 1:38pm
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I insulate the top of the airbed with a fleece blanket held on by a fitted sheet. On top of that we use 2/3 season Vango square sleeping bags in the summer months. I keep a fleece blanket and a flat sheet nearby though, I've ended up with the fleece blanket inside my sleeping bag on colder nights or just under the sheet with or without blanket on hotter nights. In the cooler months we have fleece liners for the sleeping bags.
A word on using blankets on top of sleeping bags. Sleeping bags suitable for tents should have a synthetic shell, this is made from a hi-tech fabric that allows water vapour to pass out of the bag but not back in again. If you use a cotton backed sleeping bag on an airbed you'll end up with your back in a damp patch as your sweat condenses against the colder airbed. Similarly if you put a blanket on top of your sleeping bag you'll not only compress the loft of the bag, making it colder, you'll interfere with the water vapour wicking away from the bag. The best place for a fleece blanket or liner is inside the bag with you, you'll create an extra layer of warm air between you and the fleece which will keep you warmer than if the blanket is on top of the bag.
And for newbies, it's very important to air out bedding every day. Open out sleeping bags and if it's sunny outside sling them over the car bonnet to dry, plus any blankets etc. Or leave them open over the camp chairs inside the tent when you go out for the day, if it's raining, though this does keep moisture inside the tent. Open up the tent as much as possible to allow the tent to air out and prop mats and airbeds up on their sides a bit, to air out any damp underneath. Failure to do this usually means cold and damp bedding when you go to bed at night, and it's not unknown to grow a nice layer of mould on the underside of an airbed if it's been unaired for a few days.
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