thermostat and heating - have i been totally thick!?!

[MaeBee]

i suspect the answer may be yes.
so, ive got my thermostat at 15 and the heating on a timer: comes on for hour in eve, hour in morning, but when it comes on all the radiators are on full blast and its really too hot, especially my baby's room. i have turned my baby's radiator onto 2 (out of 5) but its still baking when i put him to bed, and freezing a couple of hours later. so it goes to 22 when i put him to bed, and then down to 13 or something a couple of hours later.
now the stupid bit might be this: our thermostat is in the hall. we have our hall radiator switched to 0. does the thermostat sense the temperature in the hall only, not the other radiators, and thats why it's pumping out heat?
or is it broken?

I think you may have sussed it. A thermostat can only go by the temp it is picking up. Try setting all the rads to the same temperature?

thanks! i guess its obvious when you think about it! i suppose i assumed it was magic! im delighted i at least know the answer before my dp, who always seems to know everything!
you have probably saved my child from overheating or freezing.

Your house sounds abolutely freezing, MaeBee. 15 degrees for 2 hours a day {{{brrrr!}}}

The BG man told me an individual radiator thermostat was more effective than a room thermostat which triggers by its ambient temperature.

I agree with jura - our thermostat is in the hall and it is the temperature in the hall which triggers the heating to come on. The hall needs to be heated to avoid other rooms overheating. We really should get individual radiator thermostats but haven't got round to it.

We have the other problem, the kitchen gets hot really quickly (where the thermostat is) and then the bedrooms never heat properly.

Will fiddle with the radiator in there...

thanks so much! last night was way better. the radiator in the hall is now up full and the house was on average 18 everywhere! sussed!

scienceteacher - i know, im a bit of a hairshirt when it comes to heating. i can't bear overhot houses. some people even have the heating on in the night!! and my parents used to have it so hot you could wear a t-shirt in JANUARY. thats just criminal. before my lo came along, i would never ever have put the heating on in october.
i used to live in a house so cold we would sit outside on the doorstep to warm up. i didn't mind wearing 2 jumpers indoors, but when it was coat, hat and gloves i moved out.