Tuesday, December 06, 2005

Hot Carpets

Jonathan had a question.
What is a hot carpet?
First: no, you do not need a license for one. Damn but that made me giggle.

Ok,
Umm,
A hot carpet is a rug that actually plugs into the wall. It is basically exactly the same as those electric blankets that you buy except in rug form.
Here is a picture.

You place this on your floor and then put another thin carpet over top for protection and beauty. These top covers come in tons of different colours and designs.

Here is one that is designed to look like your wood floor and is not a carpet type.

The carpets I showed you above reach a temperature of 35 to 45 degrees C. They have a 520/260W power thingy on them. They are VERY comfy but can be very expensive. They range in price from 70bucks for a small size set to a few hundred dollars for a large size set.

We have a fairly large one that covers most of our tatami room floor. It was a little expensive but it is very cozy. We turn it on when JiXiang is playing in there. If I am teaching an English class I turn it on and close the doors to the room. The carpet actually heats up that small room, as there is no other heating device in there.

We also put a smaller one on our bed.
We sleep on about 5 futons piled on the floor (hate sleeping on the floor) and then put this other hot carpet over top of the futons. We have it so it covers the bottom two thirds of the bed; our head area is left free. The top carpet that we bought is this wonderful soft fuzzy felt stuff. We put a sheet over top of this for a little more of a barrier but we turn it on to low in this cold season and it is sooooooo cooosssyyyy when you crawl into bed. JiXiang has a small hot blanket that acts in the same way. We don’t cover her with it; it is only for warming the bottom of her bed.
We are all cozy warm at night.

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