Most efficient way to heat a baby's room

Make-it-3

We have a 9 month old baby who is spending her first winter in her own room. We ourselves never have the heating on overnight but her baby monitor alarm goes off it the temperature dips below 15 degrees. (Ideally it should be 18 degrees for a baby).

Can someone suggest an economical way of heating her room, without us having the huge expense of having the central heating on in the whole house all night.

Cardew

The cheapest way is to have on CH but turn off all the radiators in the other rooms(I assume radiator in baby's room has a TRV to control temperature)

Apart from that, you are down to electrical heating and all electrical heating costs the same to run i.e. for a certain level of heat, they use the same amount of electricity. Probably the best bet will be a simple oil filled radiator.

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I would be checking how the temp can drop as low as 15c in the house...

Do your heating controls allow you to put in a minimum temp so if the house drops to that temp it comes on?

daveyjp

A lot depends on size of room and insulation levels. If the room is well insulated a 1kw heater with a thermostat set at 18 degrees shouldn't cost much to run as the room will retain heat once the central heating is turned off.

alexlyne

we put an oil filled radiator in our nursery. cost around £25-30 from Argos. Does the job really well, you just gotta be sure the nipper hasn't fiddled with the knobs during the day!

Make-it-3

Thanks for the replies. Well the baby alarm went off the other night and the display was showing 15 degrees. (We live in a old house, no double glazing, draughty, open fireplace in her room, so wouldn't surprise me if it got even lower in the winter).

We're not bothered ourselves if it gets that low at night, have a nice thick duvet, pop the electric blanket on for a bit and cuddle up.

We don't have TRV on our radiators and can't afford to have them fitted this year. It's also a bit of a faff to go round and turn all the other radiators off every night and then we will have to get up in the cold in the morning, turn them on and wait for everything to heat up.

So, an oil-filled electric radiator it is then.

macman

Draughty?-draughtproof her room. Open fireplace?-use a fireplace balloon. Secondary glazing on the window? Top up the loft insulation if needed.
Little point in adding extra heating if it's all leaking straight out again.