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12 years ago

That really impressed me, I'm going to try that later, I just need a small bread tin.

Theoretically, if you have a big room, I don't see why you couldn't use a big bread tin, more tea lights and bigger terracotta pots.

Amazing what some people come up with.

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tagiscom 12 years ago

Great idea, but obviously not the sort of thing you would leave unattended, especially if you have animals about!

I just did the conversion, to Australian currency, it works out to 15 cents a day or 8 hours heating!

Certainly a lot better than having a radiant heater going for at least 15 cents per hour!

Shane

Or $1.80 a month, instead of roughly $20!

With electricity going up and up, this needs to get out there, l hope that video goes viral!

Nice one Sal!
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- LynnM 12 years ago
  
  Looks a good way to at least take the chill off a room. Although most of the commenters seem to think you'll either gas yourself or burn the house down...:rolleyes:
  
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SShip

12 years ago

That's pretty creative. Will have to try it the next time the power goes out.

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markaedwards

12 years ago

Such a cool idea. I always try to avoid turning the heating on in my home office during the day, going to give this a try for sure. Thanks the tip.

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sbucciarel

Banned 12 years ago

Pretty creative idea. We don't have a heating bill though. We have a wood stove that heats the entire house.

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Richard Van 12 years ago

Originally Posted by sbucciarel

Pretty creative idea. We don't have a heating bill though. We have a wood stove that heats the entire house.

I have that too, the trouble is we have to pay for logs, we're not allowed to chop stuff down here.

Nevertheless, it's still exceptionally cheap compared to standard heating though not as cheap as those tea lights.

Nice looking stove and brick work behind it, I like that.
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HeySal

12 years ago

Originally Posted by sbucciarel

Pretty creative idea. We don't have a heating bill though. We have a wood stove that heats the entire house.

I had one of those when I lived in the Mountains of Colorado. Never paid for a stick of wood. There were tree cut areas up the mountains and after the companies took what they wanted, they just abandoned the rest and I'd go up and fill the rig with wood already cut to a size that fit in my stove. Not sure you can do that on public land - but this wasn't public land and the companies didn't care if you cleaned up a little after them. I also had central heat but only had to turn it on if I was going to be gone for a couple days.

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sbucciarel

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by HeySal

I had one of those when I lived in the Mountains of Colorado. Never paid for a stick of wood. There were tree cut areas up the mountains and after the companies took what they wanted, they just abandoned the rest and I'd go up and fill the rig with wood already cut to a size that fit in my stove. Not sure you can do that on public land - but this wasn't public land and the companies didn't care if you cleaned up a little after them. I also had central heat but only had to turn it on if I was going to be gone for a couple days.

Yeah ... we don't pay either. Dept of Parks and Recreation issues permits annually and you can go and cut as much wood as you want. We only take the fallen wood, as there's so much of it, that it's not necessary to take a tree down at all.

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yukon

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by sbucciarel

Yeah ... we don't pay either. Dept of Parks and Recreation issues permits annually and you can go and cut as much wood as you want. We only take the fallen wood, as there's so much of it, that it's not necessary to take a tree down at all.

Years ago when I had a wood stove, we would have the county maint. guys dump truck loads of wood for free on our property, stuff they had cleaned up (down tress, etc...) whenever they were working in our area.

We still had to split the wood but that was a one day job each year. We would rent a log splitter which is a lot cheaper than buying the log splitter. The rental rate was less than $75 per day (used once a year) for a splitter that cost at least $1,500 to buy.

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sbucciarel

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by yukon

Years ago when I had a wood stove, we would have the county maint. guys dump truck loads of wood for free on our property, stuff they had cleaned up (down tress, etc...) whenever they were working in our area.

We still had to split the wood but that was a one day job each year. We would rent a log splitter which is a lot cheaper than buying the log splitter. The rental rate was less than $75 per day (used once a year) for a splitter that cost at least $1,500 to buy.

Here's our log splitter. lol. Back breaking work.

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yukon

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by sbucciarel

Here's our log splitter. lol. Back breaking work.

Forget that, a one time $75 log splitter rental is cheaper than down time for back pains. I've had my back go out once, I was down for a week. Not my idea of fun.

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Brady Partridge

12 years ago

I think several of the comments below the article offer some much needed perspective on the value or lack thereof of this heating method.

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HeySal 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Brady Partridge

I think several of the comments below the article offer some much needed perspective on the value or lack thereof of this heating method.

For me it's extremely valuable because I needed a good easy way to heat up a small space at night when I'm out camping. To me this is it. Just make a quick makeshift TP - start the candles and sleep easy. Not sure I'd want to actually try to heat a house with it - other than in an emergency, then you'd probably want more than one. It would still be handy and cheap. Not sure exactly how toxic it would be. The way regulations are now, it's probably actually pretty negligible as long as it's a temporary fix and not used long term in place of real heating.
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yukon

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Brady Partridge

I think several of the comments below the article offer some much needed perspective on the value or lack thereof of this heating method.

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tagiscom

12 years ago

Originally Posted by HeySal

For me it's extremely valuable because I needed a good easy way to heat up a small space at night when I'm out camping. To me this is it. Just make a quick makeshift TP - start the candles and sleep easy. Not sure I'd want to actually try to heat a house with it - other than in an emergency, then you'd probably want more than one. It would still be handy and cheap. Not sure exactly how toxic it would be. The way regulations are now, it's probably actually pretty negligible as long as it's a temporary fix and not used long term in place of real heating.

We have a coffee franchise in AU, that heats up their hot chocolate with one of these candles.

Or a specially made candle and cup!

The chocolate was so hot l almost couldn't drink it, so this method should produce a noticable difference.

But yeah, there would be fumes!

As for Sal knocking someone around, she is probably saying that Flower pots are fired in a kilm at over 1000 degrees Celsius, so apart from toxics possibly streaming off the pots, there shouldn't be an issue.

Shane

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sbucciarel

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Brady Partridge

I think several of the comments below the article offer some much needed perspective on the value or lack thereof of this heating method.

Like this one:

We learned in 1968 while listening to The Beatles White Album that burning candles and incense at the same time often leads to sex which increases the ambient temperature of any size room exponentially over the course of, say, an hour and a half. If you add weed, the experience is, at minimum, quadrupled. To hell with physics. Ripple and Tea Candles are where it's at.

Obviously, it's for small places and not a big house, but not a bad idea at all for a small place. One of the comments said that she tried it and it did heat up her RV, which cost her a lot less than using her proprane heat.

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Kay King 12 years ago

start the candles and sleep easy

I don't think I'd go to sleep with it "running" - would depend on having enough space around it. I think it would be a great way to heat a small camping space and have a second one set up and ready to light in the morning to fight the chill.

It's a bit unstable due to height of the loaf pan thus high center of gravity. Wouldn't want pets or kids anywhere near it.

I'd try to use older clay pots so any chemical used in the manufacturing would have worn off. May be no chemicals used for all I know.

I think the "15 cents a day" is fiction. Based on what I found candles for online it would cost about 35 cents for the candles used in one four hour heater. But it's still cheap.
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sbucciarel

Banned 12 years ago

We get a permit every year (it's free). It's free to gather wood, both fallen or not from the woods. There's just woods everywhere around here and just with fallen trees, you'd never run out.

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yukon

Banned 12 years ago

This similar video shows the core temp. at 277 F.

Flower Pot Heater - The reality - YouTube

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sbucciarel Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by yukon

This similar video shows the core temp. at 277 F.

Flower Pot Heater - The reality - YouTube

It's a great idea. I think I'm going to try it out in the finished basement area.
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- yukon Banned 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by sbucciarel
  
  It's a great idea. I think I'm going to try it out in the finished basement area.
  
  Here's another idea, maybe make a longer lasting DIY candle? I think a metal tin can like a large coffee can would be better than glass canning jar (first video below). I know canning jars are under pressure/heat during canning but I think metal would be a better/safer idea.
  
  How To Make Cheap 100 Hour Emergency Candles -...
  
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yukon Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Ken_Caudill

Why is it that I want to smack that guy?

Maybe it's the flower pot math, lol?

The only part I thought was interesting was the 277 F temp.
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Dan Riffle 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Ken_Caudill

Why is it that I want to smack that guy?

I didn't watch the video, but my guess would be the hat.
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yukon

Banned 12 years ago

I wonder If having a larger candle or a couple of larger candles would boost the core temp a lot higher than 277 F? Lol, I also wonder what's the max. temp a flower pot can handle?

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Michael Ten

12 years ago

Very interesting. Having a nice warm room can be quite nice.

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David Maschke

12 years ago

I took a Rubbermaid container, and put cardboard in there that was painted black. Then I put a thermometer in it and covered it with plastic wrap on the top.

Put it near a window facing south on a sunny winter day, and it got to 120 degrees. Then I cut some small holes on top to slowly let the hot air out. Basically it was a cheap green house.

Worked pretty good, except there's not much sun in north eastern ohio during the winter months.

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