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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[@debdodson5884]

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.

[@toml.8210]

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.

[@God-s_Kingdom]

cast iron with sand in the bottom one

[@rtoguidver3651]

@@God-s_Kingdom With cast iron you can burn coal, coal burns at 1500F, when you add air it doubles.

[@Pedro79_]

IMO, that terracotta pot heater is just stupid.. candles bring exactly the same amount of heat in the room, with or without the pots, because they dont have chimney...

[@God-s_Kingdom]

you really need to learn about heat sinks and mass holding and releasing heat, @@Pedro79_

[@pamdelong5113]

Use crisco shortening and a long candle

[@davidmangen1912]

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.

[@janetberns3331]

You can use any candle. Even a birthday candle.

[@spottidottie5849]

What's the purpose of the shortening please? Thanks

[@AllThingsConsidered777]

​@@spottidottie5849fuel. The candle is the wick

[@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: ~~~ _"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."_ ~~~ 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: ~~~ _"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."_ ~~~ 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!

[@WellnessWizdom]

If there's no opening to fresh air in the small room they're sleeping in, they're going to die anyway, fire or not.

[@RichardHarlos]

@@WellnessWizdom It depends on the size of the room. Consider: Let's say that the room is 30 feet by 20 feet by 8 feet, or 4800 cubic feet. I believe that high carbon dioxide levels will kill you before low oxygen levels will. Inhaled carbon dioxide is 0.04% by volume, exhaled is a bit over 4%. Inhaled oxygen is 21%, exhaled 15%, a difference of 6%. A person breathes about 6 liters per minute, or roughly 9000 liters/day or roughly 300 cubic feet/day. Thus that person will decrease room oxygen by 300 x 6% = 18 cubic feet/day. He will increase room carbon dioxide by 300 x 4% = 12 cubic feet/day. Comfortable carbon dioxide levels are less than 1000 ppm (parts per million) (0.1% of room air). Dangerous levels are above 10,000 ppm, especially above 30,000 ppm. Let's take 30,000 ppm (3% of room air) as our death point, although obviously that's arbitrary. 0.03 times 4800 = 144 cubic feet of carbon dioxide in the room would be deadly. 144 / 12 (cubic feet of CO2 exhaled per day) = 12 days to death in that sealed room. Originally there were 4800 (room cu ft) * 0.21 = 1000 cu ft of oxygen (rounded) After 12 days, 18 (cu ft/day of oxygen decrease) x 12 = 216 cubic feet oxygen lost. That leaves 784 cubic feet of oxygen in the room, or 784/4800 = a little over 16% oxygen in the air. While people will have symptoms at 15% or less, it would be rare to die with oxygen levels above 10%. So my conclusion is that in the above scenario, a person would die in around 12 days, and from carbon dioxide toxicity rather than oxygen deprivation. Reference: www.physicsforums.com/threads/how-long-can-one-live-in-a-sealed-room.685796/

[@ricksorber9562]

UCO says their Candleir puts out 5000 BTUs from three candles. How did they come up with that number? I wonder if that's the total from 9 hours of burning or is it just wishful thinking?

[@edwardmmanns7454]

Sort of what I usually say but you are much more in depth. A BTU is a BTU and so many can't wrap their head around that.

[@doveleboeuf6625]

If the electric is out, or grid down how you gonna use a space heaters!!!

[@cherilynnfisher5658]

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

[@floridagirl5250]

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

[@ricksorber9562]

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.

[@librasun123]

Cheap or not being prepared is better AND cheaper than frostbite, and that is the point of emergency heat!

[@ricksorber9562]

@@librasun123 exactly. Be prepared.

[@toml.8210]

Amen. You can't learn how to start a fire or build a heater when you have frozen fingers and you are hopping around to stay warm. You need to build things or buy things BEFORE you need things. Then, you need to PRACTICE using them so you can do it under stress. (BTDT in the high Rockies mountains, in a July snowstorm!)

[@wynndehansen7233]

It's cheap enough and most people will have a Terra cotta pot and 2 bricks and a candle but the small candles he is using don't last I've used a larger candle under a Terra cotta pot turned upside down on a couple bricks. Heats up the whole room. Thr alcohol and toilet paper one most people have that. Maybe you should think of the cleverness of using these things that I have used and have worked to ease some of my suffering and appreciate the effort out into trying to help people who are freezing. I'm grateful for anything anybody can teach me that will make my life easier and I have a friend right now who I am trying to find ways for him to get warm he is very sick and freezing cold. His friend is making him a ceramic ne right now. So as not impressive as you think these ideas are, I am twice that grateful.

[@SlowAndHomesteady]

😂😂 alcohol 70% it's a dollar!

[@edwardmmanns7454]

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.

[@FreeDom-dh5mf]

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.

[@user-fi7rf8nk7z]

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

[@acevers]

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

[@davidmangen1912]

Or use denatured alcohol.

[@josevalencia6359]

Good thanks

[@toml.8210]

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

[@rangerannie5636]

Firestick? Did you by chance mean "Ferro Rod"?

[@toml.8210]

@@rangerannie5636 They have many names.Firestick was used in the video to refer to the ferrocerium rod. Notice how badly it was used in the video- sparks everywhere. Luckily, one landed on the fuel.

[@sharonobrien9386]

Thank ya for sharing. ❤😊

[@SurvivalExtreme]

You are so welcome 😊

[@rtoguidver3651]

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

[@kt11540]

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.

[@pattikelly8921]

Ok, this "research" that's so popular (is that looking things up online then?) doesn't always align with reality. You would think that the candles equaling the 1600 BTU theoretically can heat a whole room. But I have experience otherwise. It depends on the size of the room, of course, but a lot more than this is needed to heat a room. Maybe not 20 candles, but at least half that. Additionally, it's a peculiar thing about candle heat. They only hear the air in waves of intense heat that rises quickly. They do not heat the walls, floors, or much of anything else. Candles make a good addition to a low level of traditional heat source in a room.

[@watchingintwentynineteen7786]

Soy Wax not beeswax. Beeswax causes soot.

[@rafaeltoledo8315]

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,

[@pandaberserk3390]

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.

[@gigmaresh8772]

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

[@AnonyMous-kp8zj]

@3:14 he says "Deez nuts" !!! Hahaha

[@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.

[@katherineking3174]

I am sooo sorry

[@krystalborgman]

My deepest sympathies and prayers for you and your family. I'm so sorry that happened to you.

[@SG-kd8ek]

Sorry for your loss...🥺

[@catherinehartmann1501]

Great! except 3rd? loop? link? in chain too fast and unclear to me. I will experiment!

[@constanceschroer4068]

LOVELOVELOVE!!!

[@stbam1965]

Next call fire department

[@rtoguidver3651]

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

[@owenroberts4989]

3:12 😂 You’ll want as much heat as possible to be trapped by DEEZ NUTS. Hahahahaha

[@SurvivalExtreme]

Glad someone gets it 😂

[@loupi4bama]

💀💀💀

[@didibellini]

What about fire alarms - in most houses and flats now.

[@dougyates7218]

I've made the toilet paper heater and you need to remove the hard paper core first. Also, the candle heaters do not work very well. First, you cannot violate the First Law of Thermodynamics as a candle can only give off a given much heat. Instead of directing the heat to one narrow point, they absorb the heat and then radiate it but it takes time to heat up and can only produce the heat inside any given candle. But, they have their purpose. And, be careful as they can be be spilled or knocked over. Peace Ya'll.

[@ellyhamilton959]

Sounds like recipes for people to have accidental fires

[@JuanRodriguez-ce8vs]

Be careful with CO2

[@ChristisGOD1611]

What happened after the first 4 seconds

[@williamcarothers8348]

Fireproof rocks???

[@Seers893]

👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

[@Naviasky01]

2:30. 14and1/2 inch nuts!!!... What??? Did I hear that correctly?

[@user-uh9we3hk4j]

I made one once and it didn't work so well.

[@donhanscom7309]

its not a good idea to use an open flame like the ideas given here, I am very surprised there was no mention of the need for fresh air.

[@joey86bu1]

3:14

[@user-iy5iu6it8q]

WHAT THE TEMPERTER ?WILL BE HOT?

[@catholic3dod790]

🤔

[@user-cl2er6zm6o]

Ceramic pot heater is more like a 💣 don't use

[@lkw911news9]

Not seventy percent of alcohol it won't burn you have to have ninety percent

[@dougrogers956]

Major Fire Hazzard. Don't Do This. Be warned before you burn your home down.

[@LilmasterDee-kx8lf]

House is cold on living rooms

[@EMWoodworking]

If you have to buy anything, it’s not free.

[@Paul-ng4jx]

I guarantee you, my LED lights and backup lights will last way longer than these candles and sterno will😂😂😂😂

[@robertdepalma7321]

83 subscribers really?

[@davidhayes5382]

121 now

[@salvor1]

just turn the stove on.

[@user-bm2ue4zl9i]

They aren't good u might be able to heat a small dog house with them .they don't put out enough heat and are expensive to use

[@coreopolis]

Gotta luv the wannabe but oblivious

[@watchingintwentynineteen7786]

90%!!! GAS ONLY!!!

[@GazB85]

The terracotta pot space heaters have shown to be wrong, I was fooled by them too over a decade ago. You're best off having the candles heating the room freely instead of wasting the heat heating the pot which will then radiate less heat out in to the room. Other's who can explain the physics of heat and thermal conductivity have explained it better than me in videos here on KZbin.

[@shawnfellows5306]

These really do not throw off enough heat for comfort, but might be okay for survival. There are better ways.

[@wynndehansen7233]

You are wrong the terracotta one works good.

[@solarsystem1605]

these nuts 3:13

[@santafedave1051]

Here’s the real truth you can’t heat a room or dwelling with a device that can’t achieve a decent btu output at minimum to heat one room in 20f temps you will need at least 25000 btu output can’t do this with a few candles let alone several hundred. Also you cannot increase or double btu output in any physical way I’m aware of.

[@izzyzon4975]

Tried this, even in my T5 VW transporter campervan, useless. It such a hoax!

[@finallythere100]

Trie which? Terra Cotta heaters work if done right. I use larger, which pots and lots of Crisco candles.

[@Ken-yf8zl]

According to the climate lunatics, none of these setups should be needed because they keep telling us that the whole planet is heating up.

[@susanp.collins7834]

Have you noticed that? All this yarping about global warming but Winters are getting colder.

[@DB-oz2ki]

If these are your backup plans, your screwed

[@ihscout3390]

You will have plenty of heat when your house is burning down because of this nonsense.

[@jameso321]

I'm a child 3:14

[@Paul-ng4jx]

These are what you called paranoid people that stocked up on all this stuff

[@facitenonvictimarum174]

Another heating scam on KZbin.

[@jojozee4890]

None of these work to warm up any space. I've tried them all. All crap!

[@controlfoodcontrolthepeopl5627]

So dangerous

[@Paul-ng4jx]

And they expect you to live your life based on how they live their lives. Sorry I don’t live in the middle of a country I’m more of a city person.😂😂😂

[@boogieknee3781]

Dont forget to turn off that pesky carbon monoxide detector before doing this. . .🐱👈🤗look mom ....sarcastic cat,way safer for warming your lap and also hunts rodents when not in use🐁🐿️

[@ultra9693]

What a joke is this for people living in Florida 😂

[@AereForst]

Just remember: carbon monoxide poisoning is real

[@Pedro79_]

sorry, but that terracotta pot heater is just stupid.. candles bring exactly the same amount of heat in the room, with or without the pots, because they dont have chimney...

[@fritzsmith3296]

Dude, you're in the wrong market. Take your invention to the homeless.

[@sinusnovi3826]

Was für ein Schwachsinn. Wer ein bisschen Ahnung von Thermodynamik hat, kann über diesen Unfug hier nur lachen.

[@helltoserbia]

Rubbish