Heating Solutions in Bedroom

[Purplecarrots123]

Hoping for some ideas. We have an integrated garage in our house with a bedroom over it. It's a sizable bedroom so I want to use it otherwise it's a waste. However, it's much cooler than other rooms. It has two radiators in there, albeit I think older, possibly original ones from when the house was built in 1997 (some radiators in what was children's bedrooms have clearly been replaced by the previous owners). We have had new carpet and underlay as the old carpet when we moved in was threadbare. But it's still much cooler.

I tested it earlier moving the thermostat from downstairs to the room upstairs - downstairs was 20.5 and the room over garage was 19 (and it's still dipping). I know 19 is warm to some but I generally like to keep the house at 20.5 or so, I am a person who feels the cold.

Any ideas or suggestions? I'd like to use it as a nursery in the future as it's the best sized bedroom for this but worried about the cold in there.

It’s not being in an AONB (they don’t exist anymore, now being known as ‘… area …National Landscape’), it’s whether the home is sited in a Conservation Area, as outlined and declared in the town or parish’s Neighbourhood Development Plan.
Even then, if the pump can be placed out of general sight, and isn’t causing a noise nuisance, there is not much to stop installation.
Your local planning office can advise.

Depends what you doing though. Sitting still all day at laptop i need it 22 at least with a jumper. At weekend up doing things then ill be too hot.

have a Samsung windfree climate control unit installed, very efficient and cheap to run, heat in winter and cool in summer, use the app to control it.

Our back room extension is always cold it turns out the pupework wasnt fit or the boiler the right size for house. Maybe ask a plumber. Also the radiators might need bleeding or if old contain a lot of sludge.

Insulate the current ceiling and install a new ceiling

If budget is an issue I would leave the old radiators there and buy a Warmlite Infra red electric plug in heater. They cost me 30p per hour to run on full power and 15p per hour to run on low Octopus. Must cheaper than GCH can buy on Amazon about £56 now.

Insulate the garage ceiling first. It's the cheapest easiest thing to do and will have the biggest impact. The garage is an unheated, ventilated space.
What type of construction is the garage ceiling? Timber joist with plasterboard?
And what's your budget?

We have a cross shaped house with narrow wall cavities and suspended wooden flooring. It's a nightmare to heat in spite of roof insulation, but now have bought some oil filled radiators for the coldest rooms. They're absolute game changer and are cheap to run.

Wow. That sounds amazing. Do you have extra thick duvets ? My bedroom is also not heated but it doesn’t get terribly cold and the window stays closed as it’s an ancient sash and needs repairing. I sometimes get cold in bed though, especially if DH is away as he runs hotter than I do.

I have our heating for the room I’m in in the day set to 21-22 as I feel the cold, but I’ve never heated our bedroom and it has the windows open for most of the day in all weathers.

We have an electric blanket to pre heat the bed before we get into it, but after that I’m under a duvet in pyjamas so don’t need a warm room.

Does it really need to be any warmer, particularly as a nursery which shouldn’t actually be warm anyway?

My bedroom is colder than the rest of the house - an electric blanket makes all the difference. Apart from preheating, it is a type which can be kept on a low setting overnight which is blissful.

I have an oil filled electric radiator. I use it in one of my cooler rooms when it gets properly cold. It’s very efficient.

I find that bizarre! Surely that’s not good for you physically or your productivity.

Tbh I think you might be at the lower end for what’s comfortable when very sedentary. Ideally I’d prefer 20-21 for hours at a desk, 18-19 for housework/cooking, and a bit lower for sleeping. Pretty much in line with this
https://www.britishgas.co.uk/the-source/no-place-like-home/whats-the-ideal-home-temperature.html#temp1

A 4.5 tog duvet only, with a blanket over feet when really cold. DH sleeps in boxers, me in a light t shirt.
I was too hot last night when it was minus 4 outside. But last summer was a bit of a nightmare, far too hot.

Thermostat temperatures aren’t always a reflection of the true heat available, depending on where the thermostat is sited. Ours is in our kitchen and needs to be set at 24 to get enough heat to make a difference throughout. I’d agree it seems odd, but it’s how it works!

You always put the thermostat in a mid temperature room, not the coldest or the warmest for that reason. Unless, of course, each room or radiator is zoned.

Yes, each radiator has an individual thermostat but we can’t be arsed to move the central thermostat.
It’s oil heating and very efficient (and economical) in a well insulated house but as I’ve said elsewhere, we generally only heat downstairs.

No irs far from ideal but not a lot can do my job requires 8 hours at a laptop. Dont even like wfh much but thats the way it is & im quite sure its the same for a lot of workers.

We had our integrated garage converted into a room . Building regs insisted in lots of quality insulation being installed . The resulting room is actually the warmest in the house and the bedroom above is very cosy too .