Overnight heating??

The_Green_Hornet

[Deleted User] said:

GiantTCR said:

Longwalker said:

GiantTCR said:

I have a newborn baby sleeping in a crib and a dog sleeping on the couch in the living room. Can't afford switching the heating off overnight.

Heating stays on all day and night set at 18C.

Im sorry but your baby does not need the heating on all night

A temp of 16 oC is all that is required 

A baby in a sleep suit, with a sheet and two blankets, will be warm enough to be kept safe 

According to information I found on the NHS website, babies need a temperature between 16C and 20C and I keep it right in the middel.

I'm sorry but I'll follow the advice from the NHS rather than what strangers in a forum of scrooges say

Also don't tell me what my baby needs.

Does the NHS say that you must keep your whole house central heating on throughout the entire night?

That is a bit of a surprising diversion from the sort of advice they normally provide.

There is plenty of information on the NHS web sites about reducing the risk of sudden infant death syndrome by keeping the room temperature between 16c and 20c for babies.

Google search is your friend.

GiantTCR

Temperature is set at 18C all day and night.

Central heating comes on when temperature falls below 17.5C and stops when the temperature reaches 18.5C

So no, it's not on all day, but the temperature in the house is always between those 2 numbers.

I should have dumbed down my original post, I guess.

mmmmikey

Longwalker said:

Seriously??

Since this thread Ive been watching the themometre like a hawk. This morning, with no heating in the bedroom for 14 years, with the living room heated between 5 and 9 to 20 -21 ( log burner no more logs after 8pm ) next door to the bedroom ( open plan, no hallways upstairs ) my bedroom was 16.1 when I got up at 6am - outside was minus 3

I put the thermometer in the living room, top of the stair well which is the coldest spot upstairs and no daytime heating, I got in at 4pm and it was 16.4 - outside was minus 1.5

House is concrete built, concrete floor floors and built in 1998. We have very good doors and windows and have also upgraded the roof insulation 

If your bungalow is losing so much heat, you have to look at insulation.

Yes, seriously.

I maintain a temperature of 20-21 in the lounge during the day and keep the other rooms at 17 to 18. This time of year, the temperature in the bedrooms quickly falls to 16 if I don't stock the log burner up at bedtime to provide overnight heating, and even doing that the temperature has dropped to less than 17 by about 05:30 when the electric heaters come on for the last couple of hours of E7 heating. The 1995 built bungalow is well insulated with 400mm in the loft and has had new windows and doors in the last few years. Keep in mind that bungalows generally lose more heat than houses of a similar floor area because of the area of the roof.

In your house the logburner will naturally heat the room above and adjacent rooms. In my bungalow the living room with the log burner is at the front and the bedrooms at the rear. The bedrooms also face north so there's very little solar warming during the day.

The point of my post really is that I think you were quick to judge @GiantTCR based on your own experience. Their experience may be very different. There are lots of people living in older houses in need of insulation and/or better heating controls. Even well insulated homes have different heating systems and similarly local weather condtions, orientation, layout and daytime heating regime all have a bearing on what is needed to maintain an overnight temperature of 16.

Qyburn

Longwalker said:

mmmmikey said:

....my bungalow quickly falls below 16C without overnight heating and it may well be the same for @GiantTCR

Seriously??

If your bungalow is losing so much heat, you have to look at insulation.

I don't think mmmmikey said what temperature it dropped from. If he heats to 18 deg during the day, then that's only a 2 degree drop overnight. 

My home office is currently reading 11.1, minimum of 8.7 overnight. But this room is essentially unheated, the radiator isn't big enough really. I've not bothered changing it since the room's in use only during working hours, and we virtually never run the heating through the day, only morning and evening.

mmmmikey

Deleted_User said:

Your bungalow?

Or the thermostat in one room?

Or a thermometer placed inside "a sleep suit" and under "a sheet and two blankets" in a crib in one of those rooms? 

The average temperature throughout the bungalow during a cold snap like the one we have at thhe moment. I have Switchbot data logging thermometers in every room.

My comment was in relation to the need for overnight heating to maintain a temperature of 16 in some situations (see previous post), not in relation to the best way to keep a baby warm.