Heat the baby's room when the thermostat is in the kitchen

Scot_39

poppellerant said:

Why not just put an oil-filled radiator in the bedroom? Surely that would be cheaper than heating the entire house?

Not necessarily so.

Especially as with TRVs there is no reason to heat the house equally.

And electric SR is - ignoring gch efficiency drop - 4x the price of gas per kWh.  So can heat 3 or so rooms with same energy for given cost.

Rodders53

I'd doubt that a baby in a bedroom with the right clothes and bedding will come to any harm in a modern well insulated house's bedroom with no heating overnight.  I'm know my siblings and I somehow survived with no central heating, single glazing and next to no insulation in the housing stock back in the middle of the last Century. 

Get a baby alarm monitor with bay room temperature built in.  That could likely alarm if the room dropped below the 'ideal' low of 16C?  That way you can electively do something about it if/when it happens.

If the room frequently gets too cold, the best (but most expensive) solution is to have a proper smart heating control system installed with motorised TRVs that can be set by scheduled times/temperatures and call for heat from the boiler.  One example is the Drayton Wiser smart system.  That could automate most, if not all, of that which you are doing manually.  At a quite hefty price.

I'd guess that a low wattage electric heater (500-1000 Watt max) would not really cost that much to run if temperature controlled to 18-18C, and you can even get an energy monitor smart socket that has thermostatic switching for a simple heater e.g. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Thermostat-Monitoring-Digital-Temperature-Controller-Works/dp/B0CG1B243C so you can know exactly how much energy the heater uses.

matelodave

Dont want to go down the "we lived in a shoebox" routine but as Rodders says we survived ice on the insides of the windows in the bedrooms and just a coal fire in the living room. Not saying that I'd be comfortable now that I've gone soft in my old age but be care not to overheat the baby.

It would be better to get a max/min thermometer to check the room temps before lashing out on heaters that may not be required (like one of these - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Max-Min-Thermometer/s?k=Max+Min+Thermometer)

MultiFuelBurner

poppellerant said:

Why not just put an oil-filled radiator in the bedroom? Surely that would be cheaper than heating the entire house?

That could be quite costly advice tbh

tacpot12

If you want to know how cold it gets in the room overnight, buy one of these https://www.amazon.co.uk/Thermometer-Hygrometer-Temperature-Recording-Greenhouse/dp/B07ZCLRJ8D

They are ideal and are made in the UK!

Mister_G

tacpot12 said:

They are ideal and are made in the UK!

Not so sure about that 

CrispyChris

I solved this sort of situation by installing a full Tado system, which means each radiator can turn the boiler on and off independently, so for example I can heat my bedroom on it's own without heating any other room, not cheap but it would do exactly what you want, Tado's stuff is quite often heavily discounted, on Amazon and their own web site.

Lorian

You can get some great thermal sleep sacks. Otherwise a small thermostat controlled oil filled radiators. A 500w/650w/800w one would likely do the trick and they are very small.

ecraig

The more I think about OPs requirement the more I think the relocating of the stat is the best course of action - as suggested by others already. 
If the rest of the property is comfortable and stable I would look to control those rooms by adjusting the TRVs (assuming the property has these) and put a portable wireless thermostat in baby’s room. Something like Hive or nest. It should force the boiler to fire up to maintain a nice stable temperature in her room, and assuming the rest of the property is comfortable being controlled by the TRVs, should keep the whole property nice and toasty.

FreeBear

How about a small electric under-blanket set on the lowest heat setting ?

Wouldn't cost much to run, and still keep the baby warm.