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?

Would somthing like that work to keep the heat in? Or maybe put a curtain rail and curtains around his bed? My mum did that with our sisters bed and i was always really jealous of her little den

I do find the oil filled radiators the best thing. Might be worth persisting with one of those and putting a fireguard around it as a pp said.

Bleed radiator just incase

My DD has one of these, it stays warm for hours and she loves it

Heated under blankets are incredible, we have them on double beds and the more expensive ones with temperature
control and cut-off timers are worth it. Saves money in the long run because we have oil heating and it's so expensive this time of year. Getting into bed is bliss.
You could put it on half an hour before dc goes to bed then lower the temperature to keep them ticking over and warm through the night.
No sure what age they are recommended from though.

does the room have double glazing? it would help.

foil/reflective stuff behind radiator

underfloor insulation? we're adding stuff under our bedroom floor, it's easy do DIY though quite time consuming to take up floorboards, and nail netting to rafters, then insert stuffing, then replace floorboards and ultimately relay the underlay and carpet. Looking forward to it making a big difference heat-wise though.

I'd be boarding the external walls with thermal board, celotex or similar, carpeting the floors with something that has a good insulation, ensuring the rad is at least a double convector, making sure the window/s are up to working standard of double/triple glazing & getting thermal lined curtains. Basically overhauling the whole room to ensure it stays warm enough, then I'd be looking at extra blankets etc. If the room isn't warm or losing warmth quickly, then you need to rip everything back to brick & start again. I know this costs time & money, but I say this from experience & in the long run works well

Carpet the room, have bed on an internal wall, leave heating- set alarm on your phone to remind you to turn other radiators off or get an oil filled radiator. Could you swap rooms?
What age is he? Sleeping in double pjs wouldn’t be very comfy nor would layers of bedding. 13.5 tog and waking up cold is worrying that the room is that cold

A draft excluder for door and draft seel tape

The room has thick, lined curtains and bedding is 13.5 tog duvet with a blanket when necessary

Don’t put a blanket on top of a duvet as it lessens the performance

Get another duvet to put underneath, as much heat will presently be lost through the mattress and a duvet sand which is really toasty

Trying again to post picture! The one my friend got had a night mode where it was quieter and auto turn on and off once the radiator was at a certain temperature.

Im having exactly same problem with ds bedroom...iv started tucking curtains down back of radiator so heat isnt escaping and nipping in with hot water bottle when im heading to bed..its helped a bit...

Heated sheet

So many fantastic ideas here. Thank you everyone, they're all really helpful.

For tonight I've done a pretty solid duvet tuck on one side with a blanket over the top (which was rejected as an underneath blanket and had to be stealthily put on once asleep from wake up number 1..) I think duvet kicking off is a big part of the problem!

So much to consider. Will have a really good read through tomorrow. But so far fleece sheets, socks, mega tucking and hot water bottles are all on my immediate list.

I bought a cheap white flat sheet, split it lengthways and then sewed it to the sides of DDs duvet cover. The flaps of sheet make it much easier to tuck the duvet in properly.

My mum always put an extra (non electric) blanket under the bottom sheet which apparently kept the bed warmer. Is there such a thing as a thermal mattress topper? Maybe made out of memory foam (I find our memory foam mattress very warm)?

MissScuito We have one of those radiator things. Distinctly disappointing.

Flannel Pjs and Bedding.
Thermal underwear.
What about a hat as you loose most of your heat from your head

Also whilst the heating is on I'd pull back the duvet to let the bed get warmer. Also put one of those fraught excluders across the window and door

We have one of these thermostatically controlled heaters at the cold end of out house and it's brilliant www.homebase.co.uk/2000w-convection-heater_p514943

I live in a very draughty Victorian building with minimal insulation. and we have a similar problem with DD's bedroom - we put in a free-standing oil-filled radiator plugged into a timer - one of those ones where you push in little segments to set quarter hour on and offs. Set it to be on at bed time and getting up time only. That seemed to work.

But hot water bottles are the bomb.

Why do they always kick off the duvets at night??

I put a fleece blanket under for sleeping on. Ensure they have socks.

I’d probably consider leaving the heating on in that room only.

DD has a hot water bottle in. Cuddly toy cover that keeps it warmer longer, and a fleece blanket over her sheet. She wears full pjs or a onesie with socks.
Once she's in bed she's fine but always comes in to me quite early - could be cold in winter but would be the light or anything else otherwise!!

Sheep skin fleece to line bed. We have one in our pram and baby is lovely and warm. They do bed fleeces as well

DD loves her brushed cotton bedding - I usually get it from Argos, its so warm. She has a grey star duvet cover and I also get the fitted sheets in brushed cotton.