Emergency Heat For INDOOR USE | brick air heater | SHTF

Emergency Heat For Indoor Use !!! Brick Air Heater, When SHTF !!!! Yes a Indoor emergency brick air heater / Indoor Heat source when you LOOSE POWER !

What if a emergency hits, and power goes out that is right .... power outage, you need emergency heat source? Do you have a option for emergency heat for indoor use? do you know how to make a brick air heater when SHTF?
Do you have a emergency alternate heat source ? When you have a power outage a good option may be to have a alcohol heater, that's right a alcohol heater it is the option to help you conserve your other Resorces like propane heat or gas heat and use some other emergency heat options to conserve others.
When you have a cold weather and suffering a emergency storm this brick air heat is a must have.
It is a great survival tip, a homemade heater, maybe you aluminum can heater is not working or you aluminum can heater is not working, that is when you build you brick air heater, a great option of emergency heat for indoor use !

Using a emergency heat for indoor use may be a great option for you when shtf, it is smart to have many indoor heat options, when you have a power outage at home it is scary, and it is not fun to loose power. when you loose power or have a winter storm and are in need of emergency heat due to a power outage.... think about using a brick air heater.... Emergency heat for indoors like a brick air heater is a much better option than freezing to death.

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[jackeagan]

I have used similar method to heat hunting cabin. I'd suggest 1/2- 3/4 inch of sand in a six inch cake pan (steel not aluminum). Pour cup or so of alcohol into the sand. It will spread through the sand and slow the flame and distribute the heat evenly across the width of the pan. Most cans are lined with plastic and will emit noxious fumes. Also placing a pan of water on top would produce steam putting more oxygen into the air. This will help to dissipate carbon monoxide. Hope you find this helpful.

[TeamFish]

After the flames go out, you can take the bricks and wrap them in a blanket and put them under your blankets at the bottom of your bed or sleeping bag, to stay warm all night. My parents used to do this during the Great Depression when all they had was a coal burning fireplace.

[Mark_Nadams]

The brick mountain of heat is a great Idea. I'm an old design engineer and wish to offer a couple of suggestions for better performance. As I tell my friends the advice is free and that is what it is worth. It might give you some content ideas too.
- It would work best to set the whole thing down on the floor so you get the most out of the rising heat from your flame. Most of your mountain of heat is for fire safety which is great. It puts most of its heat out at the top so the lower you get that top the more time the heat has to warm the room air before it hits the ceiling.
- If you leave a small 1/4" - 1/2" space between the bricks at the level of your flame it will allow vertical air flow and increase combustion of the alcohol and give less smoke. Kinda like a hurricane lantern.
- On the top set of bricks, if you stand them up on the long edge and leave an inch wide gap between three bricks the heat from the flames would go past more surface area to give more heat back afterwards. Maybe even a second set of three top bricks on edge across the first set before a pair of cap bricks like you had. Anything you can add for thermal mass that gets heated on top and can transfer heat to the room will help. An aluminum pan of water instead of the cap bricks might be the best option.
- The idea you had shared with Kim Bakker will help. Changing the heat source to something like a Crisco candle with a few wicks, a penny can stove, or Sterno can with a damper would increase the longevity of the heat.

[fightingquads]

Additional suggestions that I'd like to offer are the following. I concur with Mark in placing the whole structure on the floor to allow the heat to lift as it's burning. I would suggest perhaps purchasing the same firebricks used in wood burning stoves and fireplaces to decrease the burning effect and smoke that you experienced. I would also suggest purchasing a stove fan to place on the top row of bricks, these fans are powered by a heating element in the device and doesn't require batteries or electricity, and would propel the hot air from the mass forward instead of upward, this should quicken the heating effect in the room as a whole.

[kimbucha]

I am actually more interested in knowing what the room temperature is and how long you can maintain this.

[Tsiri]

I'd highly recommend mentioning that only fireplace bricks or something like soapstone be used. Regular building bricks can break or explode when the inside moisture boils from high heat. i DO like this design. i'll be adding fireplace bricks/soapstone to my shopping list.

[vickidoulton]

I'm in a house in Ohio with no utilities or heat. It's freezing cold. I'm a senior and disabled so I'm unable to do this. But thank you for telling others. Bless you and all who gave their ideas.

[mrequi]

A safety precaution you may want to add would be that of filling the cans with toilet paper, absorbent cloth or even dry sand or salt. This will keep the alcohol from being spilled if it's jostled. Otherwise, someone bumps the table, the liquid alcohol will spash fire all over that wooden table.

I used a modified version of this to heat my van last winter so have a lot of real world, daily experience with this.

I had no issues with smoke. One thing is once the bricks are burned in, they shouldn't smoke, because a pure alcohol flame produces no smoke. At least it didn't in my van all winter long.

A downside was, the shutdown happened then and isopropyl alcohol became very hard to find.
I made good money all winter by selling it online after finding sources it.

I would probably use a regular or small sized coffee can and cover it with a metal utensil holder ( tall, round SS cylinder full of holes, cheap @ Walmart) either inverted or right side up. Then put it in your bricks.
And the floor would be a safer and more effective place to put your heater.

[kensmith]

The carbon left on the bricks and the orange flames means that the fire is starved for air. The flames hitting the top bricks suggest the thing is too short. Slight gaps on the 2nd layer of bricks can solve the lack of air issue. An extra layer can get the burning to be better contained within the heater.

[TriCityConnections]

I think some folks so far are missing the key word here: "Emergency." You may be in the situation where minor details are not really going to matter. They thing that will matter most is keeping the room/air above freezing so you and your family don't die of hypothermia in case of a blackout in winter. Its just good to have options and be prepared.

[Bullybugger]

You are amazing to watch. I have learned so much from your videos. I can actually say. I’m more prepped now than ever. 62 years old live alone. I’m almost ready! Thank you! God Bless you and your family… 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[cindymeyerson]

OK thanks for the info. As someone who has lived in a compromised state, it does seem important to state one should not wait until an emergency to gather the ingredients. Fear, cold, and potentially a lack of light add a lot to the outcome. ❤

[sharonwilhelm]

The information you give so freely is INVALUABLE!!! The time when SHTF is imminent, I believe, so what you are doing for those if us who aren't naturally resourceful (me, for example)is a good thing, .thank you very much!

[louismancuso]

I learned a time ago that if you get a clean one pint paint can and take a roll of toilet paper, remove the cardboard roll and remove a few layers of paper from the outside of the roll you can make it fit into the pint can, then fill the can with isopropyl alcohol making a large sterno. It will stay lit for a long time with a nice blue flame that burns clean and doesn’t give off a light for everyone else to see and it gives off some nice heat. You can also get a clean one gallon paint can and store the pint can inside that with extra alcohol.

[water-]

Anything that makes black smoke you should be careful with. Open a window or some kind of ventilation with in 20 feet of the flame. Red flame and black smoke are the 2 things to look out for. The yellow bottle of "heet" is pretty safe, but the cleanest burning fuel for this situation is grain alcohol. Like you get at the liquor store. That's the only safe way to go without ventilation. Blue flame is safe.
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[holeslayer]

I would like to also add that in a pinch you can use a cast iron skillet for a base and then use a stainless steel animal food bowl with a brick across the top ! Just here to help !

[sailgoal]

In the old days some people used bed curtains around their beds in the winter to hold in body heat around the bed. Also, in in extreme emergency you could set up a tent in a living area and just heat the tent inside. This would not save your pipes but it would keep you alive.

[georgejaquith]

What a great service you are providing in effort to help save some of your viewers. God bless you and thank you to the family as well.

[quadsman]

As always, another EXCELLENT TIP !
FYI, when I first saw this system demonstrated, they left a gap on the bottom tear, wide enough to allow the fuel cans to be drawn out by using a bent clothes hanger, and then maintaining the heat level using only one can full of alcohol, and a 1gt. paint can lid to control the flame throttling the flame back to conserve the amount of Alcohol being consumed.
You can use the second tuna can as your next backup, pulling the first one out, and pushing the second one in, and ready to go again !
When controlling the rate of burn, you can run roughly three, to three and a half hours on one full tuna can of alcohol it takes a little practice to know how to adjust the rate of burn, but once you have your room up to temperature, you should be able to go through the night,
but, with ANY open flame, make sure someone is able to monitor it at ALL TIMES !
Don't just go to sleep, assuming all is well and safe !
Sleep in shifts if needed, but at least you won't be at risk of freezing to death !
But PLEASE, make absolutely sure you have adequate fresh air able to get in the room from time to time, but without losing all of the heat in the process of course !

[gailtripp]

Hope you are the God bless you and your family 🙏💕