Ongoing battle with room temperature

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My DD's bedroom is pretty cold It gets no natural daylight and often has a chill in there.

My DH has done as much as he possibly can in terms of insulating above her room in the loft as well as below in the cellar. That has made a bit of a difference but imo not much.

We have also split the heating so that the front of the house (where DD's room is) is controlled by the thermostat in her room and the back of the house is controlled by a separate thermostat (the back gets the sun so always feels very different to the front).

The ongoing battle though is between DH and I. He says that "no one has their central heating on all night". Not sure how he knows this?!?

The temperature in DD's room is set at 18/19 degrees during the day and 17/18 degrees at night. We know this is an "ok" temperature from various guidelines we've read but DH doesn't seem to take into account the chill factor in her room.

I don't want to exaggerate and make out that it feels like the Antartic but surely a room should feel comfortable to go to sleep in?!? And I of course appreciate that over-heating is much more of an issue!

DD (16 months) wears a vest and PJs and sleeps in a 2.5 tog sleep bag.

DH can control the heating from an app on his phone but we can also change it from the device in her room. There have been many times I have changed it from the device in her room and DH (clearly checking up on me!!) will have a go at me for it saying it doesn't need it.

I just want to know that if I feel her room has a chill to it I can up the temperature a little to compensate. And also just to say when I do turn it up its only ever by half a degree or a degree!

DH is the one in our household who deals with the finances which I appreciaite isn't an easy job and I know he is concerned about our heating bill as before we had DD we never had our heating on 24/7 whereas now we do.

What do the rest of you do???

my ds's room is the cold room. we have borrowed fil's oil filled electric radiator and it is on a timer switch in his room.it comes on when our heating gies off about 10pm and us set to a very low heat, its thermostatically controlled so it just keeps the temp from dropping too low, the timer turns it off again about 6am when the central heating comes on.

When my DDs were little we had it on 24 hours though I knew others did not. My problem was that I had to get up multiple times in the night and it was freezing for me and my babies. I found the kids slept better when the heat was on, I got more sleep and everyone was happier. We did this until the youngest were 3 and slept through most nights. That system is great if it is only heating the one room. Good luck...

Ours goes off at night, I'd really over heat if it was on and it makes my breathing all stuffy (I like a window open all winter)

Is she waking from the cold or are you just concerned by the temp? I would just give her a blanket in top of the sleeping bag.

Our house is very cold (quite a bit colder than the suitable temperature) and our baby was fine- and still is now at 17 months. I think you're making it into a bigger deal than it is. As long as they're dressed ok for the temperature they'll be fine. I'd just put her in pyjamas and 2.5 sleeping bag at that temperature too, no vest

Our ds room is the chilliest too, we pop the heating on an hour or so before he goes to bed so his room is toasty and usually turn it off around 9/10pm but he too sleeps in a bag but I pop a fleecy throw on him too. If I get up in the night with him and it's chilly again I just pop it on then and it stays on until the am.

DS room is cold for some reason, new build, good insulation, new heating & windows but still colder than other rooms upstairs. Our room could be 20 overnight & we were baking but DS went down to 14 & he was chilly despite vest, pj, sleeping bag with arms....

Same as backto we ended up with an oil filled radiator with thermostat (£35) on low setting, turned heating down. Job done, DS room stays at 18 and it costs pence a night to run.

We have only recently installed central heating. Before that we just wrapped up appropriately. We had no heating. DC are 7 and 3.

I couldn't bear central heating on at night. If we stay somewhere like the ILs where it is on 24/7, I feel so ill.

We have the heating on 24/7 if needed, it automatically goes on if room drops below 21 degrees. We have winter duvets and blankets with this temp

Personally I wouldn't want to sleep in 17 degree temp

My dc would sleep fine even down to 14 degrees. I would never have the heating on overnight.

Think you are being a bit precious. Get a 3 tog or 3.5 tog sleeping bag (I have one for sale if you are interested!).

We don't have central heating on at night as we find it uncomfortable to sleep. Ds was born in the winter of 2010 and it was really, really cold. We used a heater with a thermostat that turned itself on when the temp dropped. I've worried less as ds has got older, just made sure he had warm pjs and bedding.

DS's room has never had any central heating as his radiator doesn't work. On extremely cold nights, we wheel an electric oil filled radiator into his room and leave it on for a few hours, but he's never ever complained about being cold at night and he's 6 now. We never have the heating on overnight and I turn it off at around 8pm as I can't stand a hot bedroom. I really think she'll be fine.

I think you're probably worrying a little too much. Normal temperature in DS's room is approx 16°, when he'd wear a SS vest, sleepsuitand 2.5 tog sleeping bag. Over the winter it got down to 14° and he'd sleep fine in a LS vest, sleepsuit and 2.5 tog sleeping bag.

I'd hate to sleep in a room that chilly. We have our heating on all night. Its on a thermostat too so having it on all night doesn't mean its on constantly, just comes on when the temp falls below the thermostat level

ours is off overnight. The dc"s rooms go down to 14 degrees in the winter but they sleep fine. If worried use a stand alone heater in the room rather than having the central heating on all night