BedJet Air Based Cooling & Warming System – 1+ Year Review

Last updated on April 5th, 2024 at 09:40 am

Over the last 5 years my wife and I recognized how good a solid night’s sleep is, and how terrible a bad night’s sleep is. My daughter didn’t sleep through the night for 2.5 years, and after she started to, we started to work on rebuilding our sleep schedule and abilities. Our first step was to buy a new bed, which you can read about in my Bear Mattress review, then we looked into the Chilipad, and now the BedJet.

After finding every trick in the book to nail down a solid 8 hours, we were left with one issue. In the summer, it gets into the 100s for weeks at a time where we live. Some nights the low is in the high 70s or even low 80s. And our specific area of Northern California has chosen 6PM to be the hottest time of the day.

When you already run hot, this is an absolutely terrible set up for proper sleep. Even with the AC running, the house can struggle to cool down. Our AC unit is right next to our bedroom so we sleep with the door closed, which means lack of air circulation… you get it. Its hot, and sleeping hot is a sure fire way to not sleep well.

Even in the winter, I often run too hot under the covers, so all year round I struggle with sleep issues tied to overheating.

Background

What Is It?

The BedJet is fairly simple in operation. You can watch this demo video to give you a good idea.

The basics is a unit that goes under your bed that plugs in to an outlet. It generates the power and air which it pushes through the tube that comes out the bottom or side of your bed, and into the sheets. The idea is that overheating is not necessarily an issue of actual heat but humidity. Ever walk into a nasty room, turn on a ceiling fan, and all of a sudden its 20 degrees cooler? That is the idea in a nutshell. Keep the air moving UNDER the covers and you’ll be good to go.

You can improve your experience if you have two people in your bed by using the cloud sheet. This is a sheet that has a seam down the middle and connects to your two BedJet set ups. This allows one person to run theirs at a cooler or more powered setting while the other doesn’t. Very handy considering how most people aren’t equal temp sleepers.

The BedJet can run heat or cooling air. The BedJet is controlled by a remote, which will adjust your basic settings, set up the unit, or even let you do programmed cycles and other fancy things.

So, we’ve got a box that goes under the bed, a hose, connected to a sheet, all ran by a remote, with the intentions of helping you modify the temperature under your sheets.

Some Misc. Notes

First, the noise the BedJet makes is pretty minimal. Ours are under our beds, so if that isn’t an option for you, it might be a little louder. Kind of like a white noise machine. Because it is pulling air into the unit, there is a filter that must be cleaned about once a month. It is reusable, so no need to buy filters regularly, but keep this in mind depending on where you store your BedJet.

Remember that the unit needs to be plugged in. If you have two like we do, you need… you guessed it… two outlets. Probably not an issue in most houses, but if you have an alarm, or two, or a phone charger, or maybe a lamp or something eating up one or more of the outlets behind your bed, you might have to get creative here.

The unit emits a SMALL amount of light, but again, easy to manage under a bed, or you could tape off the light if needed.

The remote is fairly intuitive, where 99% of what you need after initial set up, is going to be managed with a few buttons and on the main menu screen. Heat, cooling, programmed buttons, adjustment of Temps, you name it, all very easily done. The remote is a screen display which lights up,  but can be placed face down to turn the light off so as not to disturb your partner.

I would like to see a setting to adjust the remotes light output. Its great until you have to adjust it at 2AM and it jars you awake a bit.

Ok, but does it actually do its job?

Yes… and maybe no.

The BedJet is NOT an AC unit. What I mean is that it MOSTLY circulates the air you have in the room, under the sheets. If it is 85 degrees in the room, it can’t circulate 68 degree air to keep you cool. It can heat up cold air really well, but it doesn’t cool air down at all. You can control how much air it pushes, in 5% increments from 0 to 100. This is your main control you’ll use to adjust the temperature.

This is one of the biggest pieces for the BedJet. It works really well, but is limited by what you give it. So don’t expect to cheap out on the AC bill, run the BedJet, and call it even. You can basically set the BedJet to be as low as the room is, or crank it up individual temperature degrees from there, but it will not get cooler than the air in the room.

This creates a bit of a let down for the very hot days and nights. If the house, and particularly the bed room, do not cool down, the BedJet isn’t helping much if at all. Yes, it will circulate air under the sheets, but do we want 75 degree air? Not really.

This is also a key difference between the BedJet and the ChiliPad. That unit ran water through it, cooled it down, and shuttled that through the bed top liner. So you COULD potentially use it to cool the bed and you without the AC running.

AC On

Ok, so you keep the AC on, or in the cooler months you just keep a window open or something. Then the unit can do its job of blowing air into the bed which keeps the bed from becoming a hot steamy mess.

As I mentioned, you don’t entirely adjust the temperature of the BedJet. You adjust the power of the fans. So for a hot night I might go up to 40%, and a cool night down around 10%. Anything above 40 seems to be kind of intrusive. Meaning, the air blows SO much that you physically feel it, which personally is not enjoyable. I want to be cooler but not at the expense of having air blown directly on me.

Anything above 40 is also VERY intrusive of the person next to you. Even with the cloud sheet meant to separate us, the bedjet is just too powerful at higher settings. I’m not entirely sure what the higher setting is for in the cooler option, outside of maybe the ability to drop the temp in a matter of seconds? Regardless, you’ll likely spend most of your time in the 20 and below range.

Other Issue

The other issue becomes, how do you sleep? I find that I sleep INFINITELY better, deeper, and more solidly, when I can sleep on my back. The problem is that on my back I overheat much more. The BedJet does a solid job of circulating air into the bed, but struggles to reach your back… because, shocker… your back is buried into the bed itself.

So, you will often find me turning onto my side at some point. The struggle here becomes my shoulder getting tight, arm falling asleep, or any other nonsense, paired with my head not being in a neutral position, and my sleep just isn’t as good. So the BedJet works, it just doesn’t solve ALL of the overheating issues.

Inconsistency

The BedJet has abilities to be programmed for certain cycles. A lot of people like a little heat at first, then it cools as you proceed into sleep, maintains a cool temp throughout the night, and then begins to warm up as you awaken. The idea being that we can have different needs at different points in our sleep cycle, so this can accommodate that.

This is a great feature, in theory. The problem is that once you set the program, it runs EXACTLY as programmed. This creates some problems for me. If its 100 degrees outside, or 80, or 60, or 30… I need a different setting for the BedJet.

The other issue is that I find I have different needs in terms of temperature based on the day. When I’ve had a heavy leg day, I get a LOT hotter in the first part of the night. Most likely because my body is trying to repair the damage. I might run hotter on a night where I’ve eaten late, or maybe certain foods. I also notice I might need more or less air at different times in the night. Sometimes I wake up cold and adjust it down, or something more and adjust it up. Factor in what I noted on the different ambient Temps in the room and I think you see where I’m going.

Basically, my body isn’t a machine that runs at the same Temps at all times on every single day throughout the entire night. This has been my one true grip with the unit. I might have a fantastic nights sleep, followed by an interrupted one, with the same exact settings, just because something else changed.

Make It Smarter

I think the BedJet is a unit that could REALLY do well if paired with some smart technology. The remote already shows the ambient temperature of the room, so now it needs to measure MY body temperature, pair that with some sleep monitoring and tracking, and it should be able to adjust accordingly.

I think of something like JuggernautAI, you fill out a questionnaire to start that tells it the basics. I’m 6ft, 250lbs, fairly active, sleep hot, typically go to bed at 10pm and wake up around 7am.

From there it creates a starter program for you. Each night it tracks your sleep, records when you moved more, or less, if you woke up, how long, what got you back to sleep, etc. It will build your profile,  understanding what works for you to get the best nights sleep, and if you get woken up by something not temperature related (say your kid crying), how to adjust and get you back on track.

Guessing Game

So instead of playing a guessing game every single night with what I think ill need based on the ambient temp, my temp, and just overall thinking what might work best for me… this would do the work for me.

Ideally you’d have something that could cool the entire bed down as well to mitigate issues with the ambient temp, but now I’m getting a little picky.

The other huge downside with BedJet, is that there is almost no community built around this tool. There is a Reddit sub, that is insanely inactive, and has next to zero involvement from the company. If you do google searches on the BedJet, you are going to find reviews from people in the various mattress affiliate link communities, and that is about it. Trying to find a good solution for the Biorhythm that something in Norther California uses? NOPE! Want to ask a question about the remote? NOPE! Very unfortunate.

Wrap Up

Ok, that was a lot. Sorry. If you are still here, this is the takeaway. The BedJet is really cool. It works for us MUCH better than the Chilipad, it doesn’t change our mattress at all, so we can sleep normal. If I need air but my wife doesn’t, no issues. We can sleep almost entirely differently on our own sides of the bed.

The downsides are that you need the AC to keep running during hot days, and that you are constantly making a best guess towards what setting will work best for you. This can give you a fantastic nights sleep, or a terrible one. I’ve played with the various biorhythm settings over the past year, and honestly, I think they are a waste of time for me. When I’ve tried to out think simply setting it at 30% and cooling for a warmer day, or 15% for a cooler day, I just wake up more, have more trouble going to sleep, and end up frustrated.

So, this is our current best solution. It works, but could be better. We bought ours on sale, which was around July 4th, so I feel better about what we spent. My wife LOVES the heating option in the winter, and the cooling (when I get it right) works well for me.

Future

In the future here are now beds implementing climate control and smart technology into them. Eight Sleep is the one I’ve seen most often. It appears to have the cooling and heating abilities built into the bed, does the data tracking of your sleep and sleep quality, AND it uses the ambient temp of the room, paired with that information, to make a solid decision from their “AutoPilot” option to make adjustments on the fly and keep you sleeping at your best. It cools from the mattress itself, which means no issues with your back, so that is a potential win too.

Now, a Cal King bed from them is north of $4,000!!! Compare that to the $1900 for a Cal King Bear Mattress, and $1000 for a BedJet for couples, and you are still a solid $1000 over. AND to get the full functionality of the app for the autopilot feature (it also comes with some coaching and shit), you have to pay $15/mo for their service. $180 a year, over the course of 10 years (about the life of a mattress), and you are looking at paying for half of the mattress AGAIN in subscription fees.

If it works?!

But, if it works, and uses exactly what I’ve said needs to be added, then damn if I’m not intrigued. My savings account hates the idea, and REALLY hates the idea of the subscription service. I feel like personally if the bed is awesome, I’m going to be a repeat customer, you don’t need my money every damn month. But I get it.

Hopefully by the time we need a new bed (probably another 5 years), these beds will be more common, and thus less expensive. In the meantime, if you are looking for a decent solution to your overheating bedtime problems, check out the BedJet

The End

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