How To Keep House Warm Without Electricity: 15 Easy Tips

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UGGs sheepskin fur lined boots work great to keep feet warm also Old Friend fur lined slippers.. or Acorn boiled wool clog slippers.

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Then there are sheepskin sole inserts which are nice and warm.

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Oh here comes my book...ideas here, but they aren't all inexpensive, but a few are:

The terra cotta pots will only work to heat up maybe a pup tent. Keep your kitchen/bathroom pipes from freezing. They will not heat up a room. Might heat up your hands...would be a good light, but don't count on this unless you want to live in your bathroom or a small tent.

I was going to buy some just to use to keep kitchen pipes from freezing...but not to keep us warm.

Last Edited by InTheGLPHood on 09/25/2022 10:47 AM

I know what is occurring,seen it for many decades.


Layers,lots of them,preferably NATURAL FIBERS, not polyesters or mixes...most clothes are terribly flammable...

Tea lights,candles,crisco,oils...for fuel,to help add heat...wicks...lots of twine...?


Water filtration..

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Wood stoves...they are adding restrictive regulations



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We have one of these.

Okay - so the heat source gives of IR heat radiation that is absorbed by the clay.. and less heat is lost into the air or room directly. The clay pot becomes a heat sink, and its heat is transferred to the room air more slowly and is therefore lost more slowly. Yes, the energy expended will be the energy burned in a candle which is about 80 BTU - how many BTUs one need will depends on insulation and size of the space.

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It takes .018btu to raise one cubic foot of air 1 degree Fahrenheit. A small room (10x8x8 = 640 cubic feet) - would experience an almost 7 degree increase in temperature (if there are no losses ) from just one candle. Get a small tent pitched inside a room and you can increase that number by decreasing the cubic feet - Its certainly not the best method to heat a space but its not utter nonsense

My downstairs furnace is 300,000 BTU/hr.
The Upstairs one is a bit smaller.

A human gives off the heat of a 100Watt bulb approx. = 340 BTU/hr I think.

The candle is equal to the heat given off by 1/5 of a person.

Not even slightly significant for warming a house.

How do I keep my Boa Constrictor warm?

Only thing I am thinking is to get a water bottle, don't fill it too much with warm water and put a towel over top of it, so it isn't directly touching it. You will have ate change out the water often enough.

Did I suggest warming a house? I just gave you the math. 3 candles in a small room could raise the temperature in that room around 20 degrees. You sitting in that room will also give off heat - so much the better correct? People are better sources of heat than candles. That doesn't in any way change the fact that you can warm an area with a candle.

This is an excellent thread with lots of valuable info!

5*

3 candles are not going to raise the temperature in a room with 20°, that's impossible - sorry.

Maybe a couple degrees, and it will take some time.

Actually, you are right. This is very true.

I think you mean, to put it simple, it keeps the heat from rising as rapidly and that is a good thing.

You should see how fast one candle heats the inside of a mylar tented area, just your body heat alone at 98 deg, will keep it very warm.

Physics my butt!

It's called radiant heat, dill-weed.

And the pots do indeed work. Very well. Lot's of vids even with room temp proof.

Physics...

The plastic should be on the window frame or opening. You want to create an air pocket between the glass and the plastic. Same principle as goose down.

I have tested many times and find that 3 candles are just perfect for emergency cooking, it will heat water for making a cup of coffee tea or canned goods, cook eggs, to fill a hot water bottle or wash water in about 15 min.

The trick is to have them all in a small soup can that collects the melted wax and ends up making one candle with three wicks placed inside of a large coffee can that holds your grill on top. I have used oven racks for a grill but it will need extra support. Safety is important and some candles will put off toxic fumes and need vented. It is important to have nontoxic candles when you are containing the air for heat.

5 busty, lap-dancing strippers also helps. Its the close bodily contact, you know. Besides, even if it doesn't heat the place up, you'll never notice.

The title of the thread is how to keep a House warm.
Not 1 cubic foot of air with no heat losses.

Houses are big things that lose a shitload of heat in the winter. Your candle won't do crap. People have been repeating that stupid crap about putting a candle under a clay pot forever.

It is bullshit advice.

Your answer was basically to assume there is no heat loss and the house is the size of a bread box. In other words, imagine there is no problem to begin with.

If a frog had wings, it wouldn't bump its ass on the ground. :)

Last Edited by JustmeTX on 09/27/2022 12:14 AM

This is a great idea. Thanks for the tip. I also liked the tip about twine.. lots of twine for different reasons.

Living in a cold region where the average temp is in the low twenties for weeks/months on end we've tried all types of ways to heat the house. We don't use the central heat until it gets below freezing but only at night when it comes on automatically at a certain temp.

During the day we use the propane fireplace.

Our youngest keeps a Basics Indoor Portable Radiator Heater in her room set on 70°. We keep this one in the cabin set at 60° where it automatically goes off on as needed. Works great for a small space and keeps it nicely heated.

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This one is in the bathroom and only turned on when showering. Also works great.

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Mr. Buddy propane heat indoor/outdoor - 10,000 BTU with Thermostat.. we used this in the cabin before it was wired for electricity.
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Got this one for the cabin bathroom, which is currently non-existent. Not sure what to do for the out-house other then freeze ones ass off. Except.. there are toilet seat warmer covers. Takes the shock out of sitting down bare assed on something in a 4' x 4' space in 20 degree temps.
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This is an essential luxury when using the facilities in unheated cold spaces.

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You are welcome to do the math. You need .018btu to raise one cubic foot of air one degree. a candle contains roughly 80 BTU - and a clay pot will serve as a heat since to more reality transfer that heat energy to the air ( it is lost less easily) There fore a single candle can heat 4444 cubic feet of air one degree if 100% of the energy is transferred) Some amount of heat will be lost through air leakage and through the walls. The actual amount of temperature rise will depend on such losses. But a 10x8 room , with a 8 foot ceiling is 640 Cubic feet. 4444/640 is 6.94.

How much loss do you want to assume? 10%? 20%? AT 20% loss you still get a 5.5 degree temperature rise from a single candle. the candles will increase the temperature 15 degrees.

Do you see a problem with the math? If not, then maybe you are wrong?

When people are talking about candles and clay pots they are talking about keeping smaller areas warm. Referring to the name of the thread is being pretty pedantic - as its obvious that the advice being given is house to deal with a situation where the electricity is out. 100 years ago houses were much smaller (The center of my home is a 12x12 cabin from 1914) , and as other noted, had individual small rooms because of the need to heat them. If your electricity goes out, you will still need to do the same. ( Simply hanging sheets is actually surprisingly effective) Bathrooms tend to be smaller anyway . The cabinet under a sink is quite small.

I did the math here already - twice. No you don't want to heat you home with candles on a regular basis, but the fact remains they are not useless. Even if you assume a 20% loss a typical candle will contribute 5.5 degrees to a 8x10 room with an 8 foot ceiling. That is simply a fact. 50% losses? 3 candles still will give you a 10 degree temperature rise in such a space. That 10 degrees may be the difference between pipes freezing or freezing to death yourself.

Heat loss is not calculated by percent loss of a candle's heat.

Q= Area X (delta T)/ R value of insulation.

If you care to run the numbers on any sort of house or home, you will see that the heat loss rate from even 1 degree of temperature rise will dwarf the heat output of your candle.

Also, some older homes may actually have some air leakage.

Google it and you will find hundreds of articles .

[link to www.sensiblehouse.org]

Here is a heat loss calculator
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Last Edited by JustmeTX on 09/27/2022 11:36 AM

Yes, it all depends on the temperature differential and insulation which I already said a long ways back. A calculator for designing a modern heating system that is sure to keep up isn't really appropriate to this calculation as you would always be very liberal in the estimate of heat loss.

Heat is heat. (You sitting in the room with the candle adds heat as well - about 250 BTU/HR and when cooling a room like an auditorium, you do have to account for that ) Every little bit counts.

Admittedly, its ultimately a rate equation and I was napkin short-cutting above based on personal experience and a quick internet estimate of the heat a candle puts out.. - so I had to find more accurate numbers for BTU/hr (literally candle power..)


According to NIST :
"From measurements of the mean mass loss rate (0.105 g/min) and hceff (43.8 kJ/g), the steady-state heat release rate from the candle was calculated as 77±9 W"
Watts converted give you about 262 BTU/h.

The 8X8X10 room has 448 square feet of surface area

Okay your room is 33 degrees. Outside its 32. Say average R value is R10 because there is a door so 1*488/10 = 49 BTU/hr lost per degree of temperature differential.. so one candle can keep up with 262/49 = about 5 degrees of differential. Therefore 3 Candles can keep up with 15 degrees. If you add another candle by sitting in the room , then you can keep up with a 20 degree differential. .


Or with an R value of only 1.7 you could keep up with a 1 degree differential. But that would be insanely low.

A cabinet under a sink will have a crappy r value , but is only 16 square feet. 1 * 16 / R5 = 3.2 BTU loss per degree of differential.

No, you can't heat a modern house this way. But you can hunker down in a small room or closet and/or keep pipes from freezing.

Bottom line - small spaces are easier to heat than large ones. Who knew? ( this is the effect of a 2/3rd power law - [link to mathbench.umd.edu (secure)]

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Last Edited by Weisshaupt on 10/04/2022 04:55 PM

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I really resisted saying the first thing that popped into my head.

Um, is that not what the OP said and three goons were critical?

Placing plastic directly on the glass will help and there is no cosmetic issue.