Help me warm up my child's bedroom please

[fannyanney]

My poor kid has a freezing bedroom while the rest of the house stays toasty warm. It's ok when the heating is on, but I can't leave it running all night (expensive system) and the rest of us would boil as I'd inevitably forget to turn down the other rads and none of the other rooms need heating through the night.

I've considering double layering pyjamas, or doing a thermal layer with a fleece onesie, but as the room isn't cold at bedtime I worry that this would be too much for the first few hours.

The room has thick, lined curtains and bedding is 13.5 tog duvet with a blanket when necessary. The floor is laminate. Would changing this to carpet help? What else could I do?

Are they actually cold in bed though? You could get some kind of electric heater with a thermostat so it only comes on when necessary.

An electric blanket?

Carpet would also be better.

I bought teddy bear bedding from Dunelm Mill for DS (11) for Christmas. He is a very early riser normally but slept really late on Boxing Day and thereafter because he had this beautiful warm lovely bedding. It's like sleeping in on a teddy bear the quilt, sheet and pillow case are all the same material. So warm!
https://www.dunelm.com/product/teddy-bear-lavender-duvet-cover-1000152978?defaultSkuId=30649844&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIwfXklPep5wIVArTtCh3T1ASFEAQYAyABEgIQvDD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

Yes, waking up every night freezing. I've used an oil heater before in a different house, which gave off a good amount of heat. It's a small room though and there's nowhere to safely put it of the way of little fingers. But it might be worth a try.

Invite a priest round to exorcise the spirit that's obviously living in there...

(I've been reading too many woo threads!)

The teddy bear set looks amazing! Even more so if it has an inbuilt anti-early-rising component.

Why is it cold? Does it have more external walls? Is it an extension? Radiator not hot enough? Give us an idea of why it’s cold in comparison to the rest of the house, that should throw up more solutions.

Could you make sure they are really tucked in? A duvet is easy to kick off but if the blanket on top was tucked under the mattress it would be warmer.

Why isn't his room heating up, have you bled the radiator in his room?

Would it be possible to change his radiator for a larger one?

I'd also look at keeping a.log, exactly how cold is it getting overnight?

Otherwise a free standing heater may be the way to go. How old is your son? If he is too young to not touch it could it go behind a fireguard perhaps?

It's a corner room, two external walls and the opposite side of the house to the hot water pipes etc.

Loft insulation has been checked, and all seems ok above. Window is large-ish. Radiator is directly below but not as wide as the window, though it doesn't seem to have a problem heating the room when the heating is on

I think the problem is that it looses heat quickly during the night. It goes from being a perfectly ambient room during the day and early evening, and then by 11pm it's an ice box

@jammakingwannabe 😂😂😂

We bought lengths of fleece 2 m wide and put it not too tight over the duvet and tuck the long sides well in and at the bottom.This stops the wandering duvet and adds an extra layer.
You could also try a mattress topper to block heatloss down,I have one and have to take it off in summer.

I saw some fleece bedding sets in Primark recently, they looked very cosy indeed!
I think sleeping with socks on makes a huge difference too.

Turn his bed around so his head is away from the window/external wall. Check for draughts around the window, maybe get a thermal blind or curtains.
Alternatively, try creating a four poster bed/ sleep pod effect (possibly in the bottom of a bunk bed). Use either curtains or MDF to create a small enclosed space for him to sleep in which will be much easier to warm up than trying to heat the whole room. My DCs stayed in beds like this in a hotel and it was fantastic...and they loved nesting, the hotel bed actually had sliding screens to enclose the whole bed.

Stick a hot water bottle in for him when you go to bed

Put some sort of tent/curtains (make a den almost) around the bed. We did this for DD. Also has the coldest room in the house. Corner room, 2 external walls, exposed side of the building.

Double blind. We've got one inside the frame and one outside the frame. We did this initially to keep the room dark (super early riser) but I noticed a difference in winter. Window always cold behind the blinds when I open the blind.

You can get duvet clips which peg the duvet to the bed, that might help.
Foil behind the radiator to reflect the heat and keep the curtains shut during the day

We add extra blankets when we go to bed too as room is ok until maybe 1 or 2 in the morning.

Sleep socks definitely help.

Having lived in a house like this I used a thermal lining paper on the walls which worked well.

As his room is furthest away from your system is the radiator warning up enough? Maybe turn down the other upstairs rads a touch to see if that makes a difference to his room.
Also you could baton the two walls slightly and put some insulation on them.
Foil behind the radiator to direct all heat back to the room and not waste it heating up the external wall.
Check for drafts around the window.
Have you heard of thermal wallpaper? I’ve read some good reviews.

Does it help if your leave the bedroom door open so heat can get in from the rest of the house? We had this same issue with DS's bedroom, as it was a corner room in an extension so lost heat quickly. A second douvet and electric blanket helped

Don't keep the curtains shut during the day, but do close them as soon as dusk falls.

I put an oil heater in my dds room on low all night (room is above the garage). It keeps the room nice and warm but it doesn’t get so hot it would burn her fingers if she touched it.

Electric blanket left on very low overnight?
A hot water bottle would get cold.

Yes a carpet would help keep some warmth in the room even a rug would help, obvious one but does Ds sleep with the door slightly open or closed, have you checked the window seal on a windy night feel any drafts when your hands are near, also you can purchase a thermo cover thing for window panes around £10 each depending on window size, a added curtain net or blind along with your curtains, a quilt on top of the mattress but underneath the bed sheet or a electric blanket, a sleeping bag blanket with a quilt on top, bed socks make a huge difference, a hot water bottle, a fan that has the option to blow hot too or an electric heater, check for gaps under skirtings and block with something

My friend had this problem once too. Her DD's room had 3 exterior rooms, was above their garage and the radiator was at the other end of her long room to her bed.

They ended up getting a device that fits over then top of the radiator and blows the warm air out into the room, I think it might have been from Amazon ? It was rather expensive for what it was (about £60) but made the room so much warmer to the point where the radiator got turned down most of the way. I'll see if I can find a photo now.