how to keep house warm

[Lee W.]

Candles are not for heat...and CAN start a fire if you are not careful! If you have electricity, the electric heaters work fine if used the way they are supposed to be used. My family used space heaters growing up, but we used them safely...and I don't remember them ever being left on at night if no adult was up.

[ogun]

coleman catalytic or the mr buddy catalytic heaters.

use one pound bottles or crack a window and run a hose out to a 20pound cylinder outside.

decide what part of the house is essential to keep warm. best to use a south facing room that can gather the suns heat in the day.

line east, west and north walls of this room with space blankets taped or tacked to the wall. can even put em on ceiling. have extra lining to put over south wall and windows when the sun sets. (go and look at stored christmas wrapping paper, often it has a shiny side much like the space blankets. aluminum foil works also)

you can lay out ceramic tiles on the floor where incoming sunshine will warm them. they gather heat through out the day and release it when the sun goes down.

you can even build a small enclosure in one corner of an interior wall by running string across and hanging space blankets or tarps or blankets or whatever you have to create a small, warm zone.

can build a double walled affair which retards heat dissapation. walls about a foot apart. this takes string, tape and sometimes nails. hang string tight and lay coverings over the string. can build a ceiling for this type of emergency heating shelter and stay toasty warm.

pitch a tent in the middle of the room. (no im not kidding)

make sure a couple of windows are cracked to bring in fresh air so ya dont kill yerself.

when using any kind of flame or catalytic heater, be sure and drink plenty of water because the air gets fairly dry inside a fuel heated room.

get a copy of cody lindin's "when all hell breaks loose". yeah the hippy guy from dual survival. he knows his stuff.

orrrrrr , you can say to self. "well, this is some kind of hippie dumbass and i aint gonna do that stuff" and sit and shiver.

[Mom2Feebs]

Do it military style....nu* to butt, baby. Nu* to butt.

[GlorifiedMalcontent]

throw a party!

mo' bodies, mo' heat!

[HillCountryHotRodMan]

Mosh about the room while you listen to some molten metal! \m/

[Lindsey_Mcfarren]

I remember when I lived in New England and I was cold all the time that if I did the laundry when I got home from work and had the dryer hose inside the apartment rather then venting it outside, it did wonders for the temp in the place. I had one of those things that held water in it and you put the dryer hose into that.