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Can anyone tell me why over E/B are more expensive than under ones and why you should  not use over ones as under ones and  visa versa?

Are you looking for an electric blanket?

Do not know why cost more but definatly we found over blankets better.

No.  I have a duel control over blanket, I love, like you PL.
My friend is planning to buy one and asked me the question.

Well underblankets have to  be turned off before you get it bed, they tend to have thicker wires running through them and get uncomfortable.
Maybe the costs involved in having the safety features so an overblanket can be left on overnight cost more. I'd never go back to an underblanket, and do not mind the cost as we do not use central heating.

Quote from: pumpkinlover on December 15, 2011, 15:20:58
Well underblankets have to  be turned off before you get it bed

Not so, you can use underblankets all night, never tried an overblanket so I am guessing, but my guess the extra cost is due to making them more flexable, thinner cables ect.

The last time I bought an underblanket they had to be turned off. Mind you it did cost a guinea. ;)

Yes, if anybody has a blanket that says it can't be used all night, then it is too old and should be thrown out, or better still check with your fire brigade, some will take old ones and exchange for new (although with the cuts probably not any more).

Quote from: Chrispy on December 15, 2011, 15:29:39

Quote from: pumpkinlover on December 15, 2011, 15:20:58
Well underblankets have to  be turned off before you get it bed

Not so, you can use underblankets all night, never tried an overblanket so I am guessing, but my guess the extra cost is due to making them more flexable, thinner cables ect.

Yep, even the ones we had as a kid said to turn off, but we kept them on "1" (an old stone house in the Highlands, ice on the inside of the windows etc etc...). The one I bought for DD recently said it was okay to leave on overnight - needless to say the cat has moved beds.

Thanks for all the replies.  I would not be without mine even though I live in a warm  house.

However some years ago when I had to attend  fire safety lectures at work in a hospital the fireman giving the talk said he would not allow E/B in his families homes.   Said they were the 3rd cause of house fires after cigarettes and chips pans.  I don't know if that is relevant today.

Interesting aside on fires in the home. In the flats I used to look after we had 3 fires over a few years. Now, the statistics would say that 1 was an electric fire (old type with red glowing tubes at the front), 1 was food under a grill and 1 was a chip pan.

As it happens, the electric fire was a bloke who passed out pissed and left his jeans over the fire, the food under the grill was a heroin addict who passed out whilst waiting for his dinner and the chip pan owner was 16, just moved out of home & used a saucepan full of oil on an electric ring.

So, personally based on my own sample of 3, the number one cause of fire was stupidity.