Raising a baby in a property with silly storage heaters

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Hey
Does anyone have exp with this ?

Its causing me stress & anxiety.

For a bunch of reasons - the start of baby girls life
Will be spent in a property with silly storage heaters

Ive already bought room themometers

And sleep bags of various togs etc
( safer sleep guidelines etc )

Has anyone experience of raising a baby in a property with ( silly) storage heaters

Some of them are on timers

Some are just on or off etc

Coach house property
2 bedrooms
2 bathrooms..

Baby will have a cot in our room , a cot in nursery room
And a moses basket in lounge / main living space..

When i went to bed - our room was 18 oc

At 4am it was 16.8

( i know its v cold out atm)

With safer sleep guidelines - a few degrees diff can make a diff to the tog bag level recommended etc

Arghh

It’s fine - I find the problem with storage heaters is rooms getting too hot sometimes.

more easily removable layers like blankets might work better. I am a bit fan of sleeping bags for newborns but a tightly tucked blanket to waist height in the cot will help, and is easier to add or remove than a sleeping bag/sack.

Keep an eye on the temp with the room thermometers and don’t worry too much.

Usually storage heaters are on in the night as they are ‘tied’ to using electricity when it’s cheaper. You’ll wake up to a cosy house. The evenings, however, will be baltic.

Can you add an additional source of heat? Oil plug in radiator?

So i got clariry from my partner today

Basically the ones in our room , and nursery room are ' electric heaters '

The ones in main living space & on landing are storage heaters

Clarity*

As its a coach house
( all on the first floor - except entrance door )
And as heat rises - its usually quite warm

Storage heaters are just electric heaters with lots of stone/cement stuff in that heats up slowly and then cools down slowly when the electricity is off. Just buy an additional heater that plugs in with a thermostat and set it to 18 and it will boost the temperature whenever it dips.

Storage heaters are pretty confusing if you’re not used to them but they work perfectly well. Look up the manuals for them online if you don’t have them - google image search should help if you get stuck.
Also suggest you get a thermometer so you can keep an eye on room temperatures. Something like this https://amzn.eu/d/0z7io9l so you can check the effect of heating over time and adjust the settings as you need them.

I don’t really see the issues with the temperature you quoted.

Electric heaters should be easy enough.

Ive had them for all 4 of my kids. Its fine.

Our storage heaters are completely shit, the choice is either that it's absolutely boiling hot at 4am and almost cold at 4pm or it's the right temperature at 4am and absolutely freezing cold at 4pm. Plus the cost is horrific to heat any more than a few rooms.

My PIL have them, I don’t fully understand how they work but the house is generally a perfectly sensible temperature, no “freezing in the afternoon and boiling in the middle of the night”. We sometimes flick some sort of boost switch on to warm the room up for a short time if needed, but that all seems fine.