For those of you with small children, what temperature do you keep the house at overnight?
We live in a two level condo. Our heating is very uneven, and my daughter's room is the one that gets coldest in the house. In years gone by (pre-kids) we kept the house at 63 during the day and 55 at night, but that seems unreasonable with small ones. So far this winter we have been keeping the thermostat set at 68, which keeps her room around 66 during the day and drops it down to around 63 at night. It has gone as low as 59 at night, all with the thermostat set to 68.
We have insulated curtains in her room with wraparound curtain rods to keep the heat in. I bought a register booster but haven't tried it out yet. We've closed all the registers upstairs where the thermostat is, so just the lower level registers are open (where the bedrooms are).
Two questions:
1) Would you try programming the thermostat to drop at night, knowing it could make her room quite cold? She is 18 months, wears fleece footie pajamas and sleeps under a warm blanket, although she's not great about keeping the blanket on.
2) Any ideas on how to deal with the uneven heating?