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By: Ikedi Ani-okoye

A 'tog' is an manufacture standard name used for mensuration the hotness of a duvet. The higher the tog rating or tog value, the device the duvet or comforter tho' the tog doesn't embody how heavy, alight or thick the duvet or puff may be.

Lightweight duvets and quilts can insulate your person from the wintry just as effectively as heavier ones. This is because some duvet and bedding fillings are better insulators than others.

Togs are metrical in units of thermic resistivity. For example, if a duvet or comforter had a tog rating of 4.5 then it would be more proper to be used in the warm weather months. At the other end of the scale, duvets or quilts with a tog rating of 13.5 or higher would be used in the colder months of the year.

summer >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> cold weather

The most common tog ratings for duvets or quilts differ between 4 point five (4.5) tog, beeing the bed material industry minimum to 15 (15) togs which is regarded as the highest tog assessing obtainable.

A familiar misconception made by consumers is that a inflectional duvet or bedding, ie: filled with Hollowfibre or gather fill fiber will be colder and less effectual than a natural fill duvet such as goose or duck down. This simply is not the case. Goose or duck down is light and has more fill power than inflectional filled duvets. This means that lower natural filling is required to reach the same tog value as a agglutinative duvet.