Cheap way to heat a room

by **Horizon** Wed Jan 08, 2014 8:53 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brHqBcZqNzE&feature=player_embedded
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This video shows us an ingenious way to heat a whole room for under 15 cents a day or less. It's simple, here's what you need:
Tealight candles
A metal bread pan
Two terracotta pots, 1 smaller than the other
A lighter / matches to light the candles

Read more at http://www.realfarmacy.com/how-to-heat-your-room-for-15-cents-a-day/#wpgLftFUPFDoM7ju.99

by **Ponee** Wed Jan 08, 2014 9:10 am

I know someone who is using this method and says it works pretty good !!

by **Horizon** Wed Jan 08, 2014 9:26 am

I need to get out in my storage room and go thru some things, and it is so cold, I am thinking of trying it. The room is 12X24 so I was thinking of making 2!!!! This would be better than the 1 little electric heater I have. Maybe instead of running a light to keep my chickens warm in their house I could use one of these!!!! That light is on night and day most of the time in the winter months!

by Guest Wed Jan 08, 2014 3:30 pm

I am going to try it tomorrow and see how it goes.. Smile

I need to go and buy the pot though

by Daox13 Wed Jan 08, 2014 4:28 pm

do you live in Colorado Nadita? bigsmile

by **Kevind53** Wed Jan 08, 2014 7:14 pm

It might work well in a small, very well insulated room or perhaps an interior space. A typical candle gives of somewhere around 260 BTU/Hr. So with four candles, you are looking at 1040 BTU/Hr. For comparison's sake, a 100W incandescent bulb will give off about 300 BTU/Hr and your typical 1500W space heater will provide a little over 5100 BTU/Hr.

How many BTUs do you need? Well that depends on a lot of things, outside temperature, R Factor of the insulation, how airtight the room might (or might not) be, number of windows and doors, how warm you actually want it to be. A very rough rule of thumb though is 10 W/SQ FT or about 35 BTU/Hr/Sq Ft. So then a 12X12 room would need about 20 candles to bring the room to the comfort range.

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