Westinghouse heated blanket review: the 100 W queen

The picks, with the numbers

Ranked on what the maker publishes, not on a score we invented. Tap a row for the full write-up, or go straight to the listing. Cost is 8 hours at the rated wattage and $0.1834/kWh.

Heated blanket picks compared by published wattage and computed cost per night

#	Product	Best for	Watts	Per night	Price
1	Top pickWestinghouse Heated Blanket, Queen100 W stated on the listing, 10 heat levels and a 12-hour timer. The cheapest bed blanket to run of anything here that publishes a number at all.	The lowest published draw	100 W	15 cents	$105.99 - See it on Amazon

Sources: wattage from each maker's own published listing, cited on the card below. Cost is our arithmetic at the EIA rate, shown in full on cost to run.

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The lowest published draw

Westinghouse Heated Blanket, Queen

Rated wattage

100 W

8 hours costs

15 cents

$105.99 - See it on Amazon

#ad how we are funded - price as of November 2, 2026

100 W stated on the listing, 10 heat levels and a 12-hour timer. The cheapest bed blanket to run of anything here that publishes a number at all.

Where the wattage comes fromWestinghouse states it directly in the first listing bullet: "a 100W, 60Hz heating blanket". This is a single-controller queen, so 100 W is the whole blanket rather than one side of it.

100 W x 8 h = 0.80 kWh, x $0.1834/kWh = $0.15 per night

Size

Queen, 84" x 90"

Heat settings

10 levels

Auto shut-off

1-12 hours, selectable

Controllers

1

Certification

ETL and FCC certified

Warranty

Not stated on the listing

Rated watts

100 W

Voltage

120 V, 60 Hz

Fabric

Double-layer 200 GSM flannel

Memory

Yes, holds your last heat level

Model

KTHB-QAVV-Q

What it does well

• +100 W published, the lowest figure any queen here stands behind
• +10 heat levels and a timer selectable to any hour up to 12
• +Memory function, so you are not resetting it every night
• +Machine washable on cold, gentle

Where it falls short

• -One controller only, so the whole bed runs at one temperature
• -No warranty term on the listing
• -Westinghouse's other queen listings do not publish a wattage, so the figure is model-specific

Who this is forA solo sleeper, or a couple who genuinely agree on temperature and want the lowest running cost on the page.

Skip it ifSkip it if you share a bed with someone who runs hot. There is one controller and no way to split the blanket.

• Source: Westinghouse Heated Blanket Queen 84x90 — manufacturer listing, Amazon.com (retrieved 2026-08-31)

The number, and exactly what it means

Westinghouse puts it in the first bullet rather than burying it: a 100W, 60Hz heating blanket. On a site built around that figure it is worth being precise about what it does and does not tell you.

• It is the whole blanket, not one side. This is a single-controller queen, so 100 W covers the entire 84 x 90 inches. A dual-control blanket's headline wattage is usually the sum of two controllers, which is a different kind of number.
• It is a ceiling, not an average. Every thermostatic blanket cycles its element off once the bed is warm. 100 W is what it draws while actually heating, so a real night costs less than the arithmetic below, not more.
• It is model-specific. Westinghouse publishes a wattage on one of the eight Westinghouse products we track. Nothing about this figure can be carried across to the king, the throws, the wearables or the 12V blanket.

For scale inside the same size class: the Bedsure dual-control queen publishes dual 110 W, so 220 W with both sides running and 110 W with one. Run one side of the Bedsure and you are paying roughly what the whole Westinghouse costs. Run both and you are paying about double. Every published figure in the category sits in the watts, by model.

One listing out of eight, which is the real story

This blanket is the most interesting product in the Westinghouse range precisely because of what surrounds it. Its king, its sherpa throw, its faux fur throw, both wearables and its 12V car blanket state nothing at all about power draw. Same brand, same category, same retailer, same year.

What that proves is useful: the information exists. A manufacturer that can print 100 W on one listing is not withholding it elsewhere for want of knowing. The omission is a listing-copy decision rather than a manufacturing secret, and once you have seen it on one product you can stop giving the others the benefit of the doubt.

What it does not let us do is infer the rest. Whether the Westinghouse king draws more, less or the same is unknowable from what is published, and we will not guess. The brand-by-brand picture is on Westinghouse heated blankets.

The gap: no warranty term

This listing states no warranty period. Neither does the product's manufacturer record, which carries a model number and a part number and leaves the warranty field empty.

That is not universal at Westinghouse. Exactly one of its eight products in our registry states a term - a five-year warranty on the foot-pocket throw, whose listing has since been withdrawn - and one more says a warranty is offered without naming a period. The other six, this blanket included, state nothing.

So the trade at this size is unusually clean. Westinghouse gives you the number and no term. Beautyrest's queen gives you five years in writing and no number. Sealy's dual-control queen gives you a five-year term and no number either. Why a term matters more here than on most purchases - the failure is invisible until it is not - is on how long do electric blankets last.

200 GSM flannel, and why we report it as the lightest

The listing states double layer 200 GSM flannel on both faces. In our registry that is the lightest published face weight of any bed blanket, level with the Sealy queen. Bedsure's king states 290 GSM over 200 GSM sherpa; Bedsure's GentleSoft queen states 240 over 200.

We are not going to tell you a heavier blanket is better, because nobody publishes data that would support it. What GSM does tell you is what you are buying in fabric terms, and it is one of the few numbers in this category that compares across brands. Light is also a real advantage if the blanket has to go in a cupboard for eight months of the year. The whole fabric ledger is on fleece, flannel, sherpa or plush.

The listing itself frames the low weight as a feature - a lightweight queen, easy to store. That is a fair description rather than a claim we need to check.

The wash and dry instruction, which is better than most

Westinghouse states the sequence: unplug the controller first, machine wash cold on gentle or hand wash, tumble dry on low or line dry, and do not use the blanket while wet.

A published drying rule is rarer than it should be. Of the makers we track, only Biddeford and Westinghouse name a drying method at all; Sealy names prohibitions without endorsing a dryer, and two brands say machine washable and stop. If the dryer question is what brought you here, the full disagreement is laid out on machine washable electric blankets and the step-by-step is on how to wash a heated blanket.

The warning Westinghouse prints that others do not

In the same bullet as the certification, the listing says: to extend product life, read the instructions and avoid folding or placing heavy objects on the heating wires.

That is unusually candid for listing copy, and it is also the single most useful sentence on the page. Folding and compression are exactly the conditions behind the failures we have documented in this category - trapped heat under a folded blanket, element insulation cracked along a permanent crease. Most makers keep that warning in the manual where you see it after you have bought. The detail is on what actually goes wrong and the storage version is on storing a heated blanket.

One controller, and whether that is a problem

The whole 84 x 90 inches runs at one temperature from one controller. If you share the bed with someone who runs hotter or colder than you, this blanket will end up set to whatever the colder person can tolerate, which usually satisfies neither.

If you sleep alone, it is the opposite: a second controller is a second cable run and a second thing to detach before washing, for a zone you will never use separately. That argument, with picks on both sides, is on dual control or single control.

Who should buy this, and who should not

• Buy it if you want the lowest published running cost on a queen bed and you sleep alone or agree on temperature.
• Buy it if you want the drying rule in writing. It is one of only two brands in our set that publishes one.
• Buy something else if you want a warranty term. This listing states none, and Beautyrest and Sealy both state five years at the same size.
• Buy something else if you share the bed and disagree about heat. One controller cannot be split - see dual control electric blankets.
• Buy something else if you want a published temperature range. Westinghouse states none; the brands that do are ledgered on how hot does a heated blanket get.
• Check the size line if you want a different size. The 100 W figure belongs to this queen listing and does not carry to the Westinghouse king.

The short version

A plain, light, well-specified queen that does the one thing this category mostly refuses to do: it tells you what it draws. 100 W is the lowest published figure of any bed blanket here, and it is the reason this blanket leads our energy-efficiency rankings despite publishing no temperature range and no warranty term. If what you want is a known cost on a bed you have to yourself, nothing else in our registry answers the question as directly.