Heat Your House WITHOUT GAS OR ELECTRICITY (DIY Homemade Heaters)

Here's exactly how to heat up your house without gas or electricity, Heat a room without gas or electricity, with 3 homemade heaters that are actually effective.

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[pamdelong]

Use crisco shortening and a long candle

[toml.]

Consider something else, instead of the terracotta pot heater. They have cracked and fallen apart, causing house fires in the UK. A metal cooking pot works just as well.

[cherilynnfisher]

Thank you for this video.
Please please please
everyone remember
non-negotiable rule #1;
"SAFETY FIRST"!!!🔥🔥🔥

[davidmangen]

I use a candle in a container of vegetable shortening (inside of a metal can) to heat my garage. Use 100% beeswax candles. Works fantastic.

[RichardHarlos]

These are relatively simple to build, but they aren't going to heat most people's spaces. The short answer is "BTU's". For a bit more information, consider this excerpt that I snagged from another web page that's trying to help people understand why it doesn't work as expected:

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_"Can you heat an entire room with just 4 tealights? Sure. If the temperature outside is not much lower than what you want the indoor temperature to be, and your room is well insulated, and you're willing to wait a long time. If those conditions aren't met, you can't do it. If the temperature differential between indoors and outdoors is high, and your house isn't well insulated, heat will be lost to the outdoors faster than your candles can provide heat. And even if your room is well insulated, it's going to take a very long time for those candles to do the job."_

_"Look at it this way. According to Wikipedia, a single tealight has an energy output of about 100 BTU/hr. A small space heater, capable of heating a small room, is 5000 BTU/hr. Thus, you actually would need fifty candles to heat the room as efficiently as a space heater, instead of just four. So let's suppose a space heater would take one hour to heat the room up. It'll take the candles over twelve hours to do the job (considering the burn-life of a typical tealight is well under twelve hours, we have a serious problem!). And remember that this is under the "ideal" conditions, where you're not losing heat to the outdoors more quickly than the candles can produce it."_
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Here's an example calculation from another web page that makes it very clear that a tealight heater isn't sufficient for even small rooms:

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_"Using our formula from above, a 1, 000 square-foot workspace with 8-foot ceiling height means you’ll be heating 8, 000 cubic feet of space. If the temperature outside is 30°F and you’d like it to be 70°F in your garage, the desired temperature change is 40°F. Those two numbers multiplied by .133 reveals you’ll need a little more than 42, 500 BTUs per hour to keep your workspace at 70 degrees."_
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I'm not sharing this information to put you down. I'm sharing it because if people are going to rely on these kinds of devices to keep them warm in the case where the power goes out, they're going to be mighty cold. And, we haven't even begun to talk about the importance of airflow when using an open flame in a closed space. A fire needs oxygen. If you're in a small space and you don't have an opening to fresh air, the flame is going to use some of the oxygen in your closed room. And if you happen to be sleeping when the oxygen level in the room drops below a certain threshhold, it's very likely that you'll die in that room with the pretty little heater that can't keep the space warm.

Don't die. Live. Cheers!

[debdodson]

Wood heater coals from a wood heater or outside campfire...cast iron Dutch oven and a 16 quart steel pot or bricks(flat rocks 4-12" thick will work).
Fill cast iron Dutch oven with coals and cover with ash dust to prevent smoke and sit on top of 16 quart pot or flat rocks or bricks. Stir occasionally and refill.

[edwardmmanns]

I haven't seen a heater like this with enough BTU's to heat up more than a linen closet. And then there is the carbon monoxide factor. Some say leave a window open a bit but that is the opposite of heating.

[ricksorber]

Here's the problem. Alcohol isn't cheap. Sterno isn't cheap. A lot of people won't have flower pots and a dozen candles lying around the house. Build and test these things before you really need them. Don't wait until the last minute to start looking for parts.

[floridagirl]

toilet paper is like gold....can anything else be used?

[firfnkz]

Be careful in small rooms. The fumes can kill you.

[FreeDom-dhmf]

I've tried using that terra cotta pot method. It didn't do anything as far as providing any heat for my small space with low ceiling. but it looks nice.

[acevers]

If you use alcohol indoors use HEET gas line anti freeze to reduce soot.

[Justificus]

Not too worried about the candles, but anything else is a serious carbon monoxide generator - and in a closed room can be deadly.
Carbon monoxide is an orderless and colorless gas produced by burning wood, charcoal briquettes, oil, or fuel.
My cousin and his friends brought a small barbecue with burning charcoal into a cabin for heat while they slept Two out of the four (my cousin) died during sleep because of carbon monoxide poisoning.

[toml.]

The firestick is supposed to be using for outdoor camping, and matches or a butane lighter is for candles or indoor stoves.

[rtoguidver]

With cast iron you can burn coal, coal burns at 1500F, wne you add air it doubles.

[kt]

According to research, the heating power of one candle is 80W. Therefore 20 candles are about the equivalent of one 1600W space heater. A candle heat source of 1600W combined is able to heat a room thoroughly. However, having 20 candles in your room is a fire hazard. Let’s cover the better alternatives.

How many watts does a candle

Get some non-toxic beeswax candles and metal cans.

[rafaeltoledo]

Alcohol stoves with alcohol, they work but u gotta keep an eye on them. Once that flame goes out, your gonna have a serious amount of fumes, I know from, experience, im in my 60, s, them Terry cotta ones, u gotta keep a eye on them too. Cuz they have a tendency for the pot to break,

[pandaberserk]

if you make terra cotta heater dont let the tea candles touch keep them spread out. to much heaT makes wax ooze out into floor and bolt and then fire.

[gigmaresh]

And when the soot builds up in that clay pot?
There is a reason chimney sweeps make good money. They keep your house from burning down

[seanogs]

How long will each last? How big of an area will each heat?