Editorial policy
Editorial policy
Sourcing standards, exclusions, corrections, and the specific claims this site will not make under any circumstances.
Last updated August 31, 2026
Every number on this site traces to a named, linked source. We publish no estimate as a measurement, no testing claim, no fabricated review, and no price we cannot verify live. Where we do not know something, the page says so.
Sourcing standards
| Claim | Acceptable | Not acceptable |
|---|---|---|
| Wattage and voltage | The manufacturer's manual, rating plate or listing, cited per model | Another affiliate site's number; any aggregate |
| Electricity rate | US EIA published average, with retrieval date | Unstated rates; UK or EU figures for a US page |
| Safety certification | The mark or standard the manufacturer names | Inference from brand reputation |
| Recalls | The CPSC database | Second-hand reporting of a recall we have not confirmed |
| Wash and care rules | The specific manufacturer's instructions | Generic category advice presented as a maker's rule |
| Price, rating, review count | The live retailer data layer, timestamped | Anything remembered, cached or hard-coded |
The second column of that table is the operative one. An aggregator publishing a single 400 W figure for every blanket at every size is the exact thing we will not do, and noticing that such figures circulate unsourced is part of why this site exists.
Claims we will never make
- That we tested anything. We have tested zero units. No page will ever say "in our testing", "we slept under", "after a month of use" or "we measured".
- A credential nobody here holds. No electrician, no engineer, no sleep specialist, no medical reviewer, no expert panel.
- A fabricated review or testimonial. There are no customer testimonials on this site and there never will be unless they are real, attributed and sourced.
- A rating we invented. No self-authored star rating appears on this site or in its structured data, because a score we made up marked up as a review rating would be a fabrication.
- Medical advice. Where a question is clinical we say so and point to a clinician.
- A price we cannot verify. No live price means the button says Check price.
What gets a product excluded
- 1It cannot be resolved to a live listing. Every product here was read off a real retailer page.
- 2It has an open safety recall. Checked against the CPSC database.
- 3Its buy link cannot exist. We do not write a recommendation the reader cannot act on.
- 4Its only claim is unquantified. A product whose entire differentiation is an unmeasured marketing phrase is not ranked on that phrase.
Independence
No advertiser, manufacturer or affiliate program has any input into what appears here, in what order, or what we say about it. We accept no free products and no sponsored placements, and every link on the site goes to a single retailer under a single program, so there is no product we could favor for a better rate. Detail on how we are funded.
Corrections
We will get things wrong. Manufacturers rewrite listings, specifications change, and we may simply misread something.
- 1Tell us, ideally with a link to the source showing the correct figure. Use the contact form or write to info@woolwatt.com.
- 2We check the source you name. Not our previous conclusion, the source.
- 3We fix the page and date the fix. The updated date on the page changes.
- 4If the error was material, we say so on the page. A number that changed a recommendation gets a visible note rather than a silent edit.
Update cadence
| What | Cadence | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Live prices | Daily, automated | Retailer terms expect prices no older than about 24 hours |
| Roundup picks | Monthly | An out-of-stock pick is a broken page |
| Electricity rate | Quarterly | Currently 0.1834 USD/kWh, June 2026. A stale rate makes every cost figure wrong at once |
| Safety content against CPSC recalls | Quarterly | The one area where stale is dangerous |
| Full content audit | Twice yearly | Listings get rewritten and specifications change |
Authorship
Everything here is written by Scooter M., an enthusiast who reads the manuals and does the arithmetic. Every page carries that byline and a visible last-updated date. There is no editorial team and we do not imply one. More on about.
AI and how this content is made
Worth stating because plenty of sites do not. Content here is assembled from manufacturer listings that were read and recorded during a research pass, and the arithmetic is computed from those figures by the code that renders the page rather than typed by hand. That is why the cost in a table and the cost in a paragraph can never disagree.
What that process does not do is invent a number. If a manufacturer publishes no wattage, no stage of this pipeline is permitted to supply one, and the page says the figure is not published instead. That constraint is enforced in the data model itself: a wattage cannot be stored without a citation.
Sources
- US Energy Information Administration, Electric Power Monthly, Table 5.3 (June 2026): 18.34 cents per kWh, average US residential
- US Consumer Product Safety Commission - recalls database
Every specification on this page traces to a published manufacturer listing or a government data source. Where a maker publishes no wattage, we say so rather than estimating one.