heating 1 room, cheaper using central heating or oil filled heater?

khampson

Hi, we have a 4 month old baby and when its cold and night she wakes up, we live in a 3 bedroom semi, will it be cheaper for me to switch on the central heating and powering all the radiators or just use a oil filled heater to regulate the room temperature, the heater is a 1 or 2 kw and the room size is 13 feet x 12.5 feet.

What are your thoughts?

Keith

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Put her an extra blanket on.

khampson

Yes sorry tried that, she gets to warm then, that's why I thought it would be better to control room temperature instead

broxis11

Just let the baby sleep during the day when it`s warm and then at night she`ll be awake anyway thus saving you money. Heaven knows that you`re going to need it for the next 25 years :j

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If the door is closed I can't imagine the oil heater wouldn't be on for very long as the thermostat would cycle it off more than it would be on. I'd guess it would cost less than 30p a night

grahamc2003

khampson wrote: »

Hi, we have a 4 month old baby and when its cold and night she wakes up, we live in a 3 bedroom semi, will it be cheaper for me to switch on the central heating and powering all the radiators or just use a oil filled heater to regulate the room temperature, the heater is a 1 or 2 kw and the room size is 13 feet x 12.5 feet.

What are your thoughts?

Keith

What sort of temperatures do you think are 'cold'? Certainly, at this time of the year, I woudln't heat any bedrooms at all.

I'd say set the oil heater to about 10 degrees for a baby's bedroom in the winter - that shouldn't cost much as others have said.

My personal view (I'm not a medical doctor so it isn't worth much), is that having rooms too hot is more of a long term problem than having them fall to single digit temps. Seems like lots of our children's friends from houses kept around 23/24 all the time all seem to end up with inhalers/asthma/constant colds.

Oldernotwiser

grahamc2003 wrote: »

What sort of temperatures do you think are 'cold'? Certainly, at this time of the year, I woudln't heat any bedrooms at all.

Good grief, I never dreamed that someone would be talking about heating a bedroom now - I thought this was in preparation for next winter!

khampson

We keep central heating set to about 22 degrees at night, at about 3 or 4 am it drops to about 16 or 17 degrees when it cooler at night, they recommend for babies that the temperature should be 21 to 22 degrees, we have no Windows open in our rented property, Windows are sealed and we have double glazing, if its hot outside at night she sleeps through no problem.

Joyful

As said above, unless you live in a very cold property it should not need heating now. If you do need to heat now get a heater with a thermostat and set it low just to keep the chill off. You certainly don't want to overheat the little one.
Just seen your update- 22 degrees! far too hot.

penrhyn

22 degrees seemed far too hot to me, how did we all survive without central heating.

I'd do some research or ask your health visitor.


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penrhyn wrote: »

how did we all survive without central heating.

I think many families are about to find this out over coming years as the cost of heating rises significantly. I've never experienced living with central heating so I'll never know what I'm missing. And as Graham said, I think I'm healthier because of it.