Small cheap room heater for keeping baby warm at night

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Would it be more efficient to buy a small, cheap heater of some kind to keep the room the baby is in warm through the night, rather than relying on central heating?

Something with a thermostat, like this fan heater:
www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/4150671/c_1/1|cat_10197552|Heaters+and+coolers|10197884/Tr ail/searchtext%3EHEATER.htm

Or this convection heater:
www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/4150547/c_1/1|cat_10197552|Heaters+and+coolers|10197884/c_ 2/2|cat_10197884|Convector+heaters|10197895/Trail/searchtext%3EHEATER.htm

I'd appreciate any thoughts or advice!

We bought a convection heater like that second link for our attic room which currently has no central heating. My mum uses it to sleepover in once a week. It's quite a big room, and it heats it well and crucially, has a thermostat on the side of it which means it clicks off when the room gets to a particular temperature. If your babe's room is not too tiny, I think this would be ok. It would be quieter than that first one you linked.

As for the expense, I have no idea. They aren't cheap to run, but keeping the whole house warm just for the sake of one room through the night doesn't seem sensible either. We've done that before and you end up waking in a sweat at 4am.

do you have central heating in the house? We do and it goes off for overnight. In the cold months the kids rooms can get down to 14/15 degrees at night but they are not bothered by it as they have their duvet (dd - 5years) and their sleeping bag (ds 2.3years).

ok - I had (perhaps still have?) one of the ones similar to the one in your 2nd link. I do find it very noisy when it kicks in and out.

Also have one very similar to your first link, which I personally prefer.

Don't know about cost of running though - although if you decided to go for the first type you can have my De Longhi one (still got it's box and instructions) for £10 including p&p if you want it.

I wouldn't heat the baby's room either. They are more at risk of it being too warm than too cool in which case they will soon let you know!!! Isn't 14 degrees the perfect room temp, it's much cooler than you think.

i personally wouldn't bother. we've never had the heating on at night at neither children have complained! lol
as long as they're snuggled up warm in bed they'll have no idea

i just bought a great oil filled heater for my dd's room from dunelm mill, it was only £29.99 and a much better buy than the ones in argos,or anywhere else i've been looking lately.

Thank you all!

I had not really intended to heat the room, but having been given a present of one of those egg thermometers, I've observed it tends to turn blue in the middle of the night (

How many layers you put on depends on how cold the room gets, do you use grobags they are great.

If you do use a room heater please please check that the thermostat is on the correct temp every time you but them to bed and that no little people have fiddled with it and turned it up.

I use a bambino oil filled heater in our DS's room, because I am a wuss and don't like the cold and remember waking up freezing in the morning when I was a child. £50 and does a brilliant job with a a plug-in timer
www.johnlewis.com/de'longhi-bambino-trn-050m-oil-filled-radiator/p230856015