There is nothing like a warm bed on a cold night to relax and soothe you to sleep. A heated mattress pad will warm the bed underneath as well as the pillow and covers. The heated mattress pads are comforting and enable deeper relaxation much faster so you can wake up more refreshed in the morning.

Although some people are building houses that have incredibly efficient HVAC (heating, ventilating, and air conditioning) systems installed, many people still live in houses with poor insulation and HVAC. Older houses are particularly prone to these problems. In the winter, this can make the house too cold for comfort and result in astronomical heating bills.

Heated mattress pads (electric) may be a good alternative to keeping the heat running constantly, or to piling on blankets, and can drastically cut heating costs. However, it’s worth investigating how much electricity electric mattress pads really use if you want to determine whether the pad will result in real savings. The following sections give information on the wattage used by electric mattress pads, as well as data on what can affect the wattage. Typically heated mattress pads consume approximately 60 to 90 watts on the high settings. This usage is per side, however, so an entire pad can consume 120 to 180 watts on average. Translated into money, this means the average pad is consuming about 2 to 3 cents if run for an entire night!

The size of the heating mattress pads impact how much wattage is used. A twin mattress pad, for example, can use 60 to 85 watts, which is about the same amount as the wattage of each side of a larger pad. If you have a larger pad, you can expect to use more electricity because there is more pad to be heated. Small wires and circuits have increased resistance. This means that it takes less voltage to heat them up than it does for large wires, so mattress pads that have wires that are larger than others will need more electricity to get the same amount of heat. Wires in heated mattress pads typically have become smaller over time, so the newer your mattress pad, the better the odds are that it is more efficient.