Cold Room

OK, so the room we're using for the nursery happens to be the coldest room in the house....It's directly above the garage that is not insualted...DH is freaking saying that the room is too cold for a baby....It's not freezing, but def colder than the other rooms in the house, if we raise the heat the other rooms in the house are too hot and the nursery is just right...any ideas of how to combat this????

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Is there any way to blow in some insulation? Or maybe put some in the ceiling of the garage (which would be the floor fo the nursery)?

Have you put in a thermometer and measure the temp of the room with the heat on comfortably in the rest of the house? The current SIDS recomendations are that a babies room be kept between 65-68 for sleeping......

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Posted by Blissful

Is there any way to blow in some insulation? Or maybe put some in the ceiling of the garage (which would be the floor fo the nursery)?

Have you put in a thermometer and measure the temp of the room with the heat on comfortably in the rest of the house? The current SIDS recomendations are that a babies room be kept between 65-68 for sleeping......

Emerson's room is the coldest as well but as stated above, it's actually the perfect temp. to prevent SIDS. Her room temp. averages 65. She sleeps in our room now which is just as cool but she sleeps in a fleece onesie and her sleep sack so she's warm and comfy.

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Posted by Blissful

Is there any way to blow in some insulation? Or maybe put some in the ceiling of the garage (which would be the floor fo the nursery)?

Have you put in a thermometer and measure the temp of the room with the heat on comfortably in the rest of the house? The current SIDS recomendations are that a babies room be kept between 65-68 for sleeping......

That was one of the options we were thinking of is blowing insulation into the ceiling of the garage, not sure how much $$$ that runs, but wanted to see if there was anything easier...The thing is I think she's going to seep with us in the bassinet for the first two months,, so we have some time, but I don't want to think about it anymore and just have the room be warm!!!!

If the ceiling is open in the garage your DH can lay the insulation in himself and its not that expensive. If there is a celing up that is when you have to blow in, usually they do it on the outside of the house through making a few holes under the siding and blowing it in this way.

Our house is 115 years old and basically uninsultated which wasn't bad because they are 2-3 foot thick plaster walls. But there were some places that were chilly so we had the insulation blown in.

DH layed insulation in the attic himself since everythign was exposed beams etc.


The other option is to put an electric space heater in the room but I am usually very leary with this because of potential fire hazzards and they draw a lot of electricity that you might just be better off insualting.

We live in CA where we most older houses don't even have central heat including ours. We used the electric space heater last winter and it worked really well. They sell the ceramic kind which are cool to the touch. It did get pricey in terms of our electric bill however. I would invest in one that had a cut-off when the room hits a certain temp.

Or just insulate if that's what's keeping the room colder. It will be cheaper in the long run

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Posted by CkGm

Posted by Blissful

Posted by pickles16

Posted by Blissful

Is there any way to blow in some insulation? Or maybe put some in the ceiling of the garage (which would be the floor fo the nursery)?

Have you put in a thermometer and measure the temp of the room with the heat on comfortably in the rest of the house? The current SIDS recomendations are that a babies room be kept between 65-68 for sleeping......

That was one of the options we were thinking of is blowing insulation into the ceiling of the garage, not sure how much $$$ that runs, but wanted to see if there was anything easier...The thing is I think she's going to seep with us in the bassinet for the first two months,, so we have some time, but I don't want to think about it anymore and just have the room be warm!!!!

If the ceiling is open in the garage your DH can lay the insulation in himself and its not that expensive. If there is a celing up that is when you have to blow in, usually they do it on the outside of the house through making a few holes under the siding and blowing it in this way.

Our house is 115 years old and basically uninsultated which wasn't bad because they are 2-3 foot thick plaster walls. But there were some places that were chilly so we had the insulation blown in.

DH layed insulation in the attic himself since everythign was exposed beams etc.


The other option is to put an electric space heater in the room but I am usually very leary with this because of potential fire hazzards and they draw a lot of electricity that you might just be better off insualting.

We live in CA where we most older houses don't even have central heat including ours. We used the electric space heater last winter and it worked really well. They sell the ceramic kind which are cool to the touch. It did get pricey in terms of our electric bill however. I would invest in one that had a cut-off when the room hits a certain temp.

Or just insulate if that's what's keeping the room colder. It will be cheaper in the long run

Yah, we're going to price it out..but we just brought the thermometer in the room an the room was 66, and it was perfect, I think DH was just freaking for no reason

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Posted by Blissful

Posted by pickles16

Posted by CkGm

Posted by Blissful

Posted by pickles16

Posted by Blissful

Is there any way to blow in some insulation? Or maybe put some in the ceiling of the garage (which would be the floor fo the nursery)?

Have you put in a thermometer and measure the temp of the room with the heat on comfortably in the rest of the house? The current SIDS recomendations are that a babies room be kept between 65-68 for sleeping......

That was one of the options we were thinking of is blowing insulation into the ceiling of the garage, not sure how much $$$ that runs, but wanted to see if there was anything easier...The thing is I think she's going to seep with us in the bassinet for the first two months,, so we have some time, but I don't want to think about it anymore and just have the room be warm!!!!

If the ceiling is open in the garage your DH can lay the insulation in himself and its not that expensive. If there is a celing up that is when you have to blow in, usually they do it on the outside of the house through making a few holes under the siding and blowing it in this way.

Our house is 115 years old and basically uninsultated which wasn't bad because they are 2-3 foot thick plaster walls. But there were some places that were chilly so we had the insulation blown in.

DH layed insulation in the attic himself since everythign was exposed beams etc.


The other option is to put an electric space heater in the room but I am usually very leary with this because of potential fire hazzards and they draw a lot of electricity that you might just be better off insualting.

We live in CA where we most older houses don't even have central heat including ours. We used the electric space heater last winter and it worked really well. They sell the ceramic kind which are cool to the touch. It did get pricey in terms of our electric bill however. I would invest in one that had a cut-off when the room hits a certain temp.

Or just insulate if that's what's keeping the room colder. It will be cheaper in the long run

Yah, we're going to price it out..but we just brought the thermometer in the room an the room was 66, and it was perfect, I think DH was just freaking for no reason

Yeah with warm pajamas and swaddling or a sleep sack she will be fine. People think they need to keep the rooms really warm when its actually better for their breathign when its cooler!

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My sons room is the coldest in the house, when he was in his crib we used a small oil radiator on a thermostat in his room, now that he is older and in a bed, he sleeps with a really heavy down duvet, so he is toasty and warm.