Heating: best way to get cold room warm enough for baby

jennimoo

We have radiators in all rooms, and our bedroom stays fairly warm as has only the one outside wall. Our baby needs to mice out in to her room very soon, but it is on the corner and gets very cold in comparison, despite the radiator on full. We have 'thermostats' on all radiators except bathroom and hallway (where the actual thermostat is).

Any thoughts how we can get her room warm enough and the rest of the house not baking / not use too much gas?

How about these ideas, any good?

1) turn down all radiators except nursery and thermostat up(not sure will help as can't turn hall down...)
2) get thermostat on hall radiator (is this fairly easy? we can take radiators on and off and have plumbed a bathroom...)

3) replace her radiator (it's single thickness)

DVardysShadow

Check whether the radiator needs bleeding. Check whether the lockshield valve [the other one from the thermostatic valve] on the rad is sufficiently open Check whether the radiator [not the room] reaches full temperature. Sort these out and if the room still does not reach full temperature, then you should consider getting a more powerful radiator.

Iris_Blue

My oldest sons room use to be freezing as its a corner bedroom. I put tin foil behind the radiator and lined the curtains , we had new windows in but you could still feel a draft at the bottom of the sill. These made a huge difference to the room.

Rikki

You need to know what the temperature is in the babies room. Get a thermometer for that room and regulate by that.

(My hall thermometer only gets to 15 but the living room and bedrooms will be between 18 and 20.)

I second lining the curtain and putting heat reflective material behind the radiator. A single radiator normally has fins behind which deflect the heat. make sure the curtains are behind the radiator and not letting the heat go straight to the window.

zzzLazyDaisy

At the risk of stating the obvious... is it possible to keep your baby in the room with you until the risk of extreme cold weather has past?