Living in a small tent in your living room in freezing weather... V

[Ponce]

I did something today which I wasen't going to say anything about, but....I saw this elsewhere...(Pitch a tent or make a fort: A small tent or fort in your warm room will capture body heat and help you and your family stay warm).... so that now I decided to write something about it. About two yeas ago I wrote abaout a smal tent in your living room and I was working on a way to heat it for pennies...here is what I did......I have a small two men tent that I covered with bubble wrap to insulated it more....I lit up a "tea?" candle and left it alone, 1/2 hour later I went to see how it was going........SURPRISEEEEEE, it was super warm so that now I have a way to survie in the cold, leave or make a small hole for oxigin to go in.....with my solar pannels I can work with my laptop inside of the tent and that would also work............my cat will sleep with me, as she does now, but my fat ass dog better learn to be an Eskimo.

Practice today for the way that you WILL HAVE to live torrow.....learn what will work and what won't.

V

[Glass]

I seal off my main room. The lounge area with a heat reflective curtain. No real thermal properties other than it's a barrier to air movements. I find this works well. It stops cooking smells leaving the kitchen area as well as keeping in heat to that room in winter. With that, some computers and big screens, a blanket and warm clothes I can cope comfortably. But I am not dealing with 0 degrees or less in any scale so it is not as life threatening. I have been watching the weather and wondering to myself how I would cope because I just don't know anything about snow or super cold weather. I've seen snow, been in snow and been to countries where it was around 0 celcius. I would need a fair bit of advice I think if I was to cope.

I watched a show about wind turbines in Alaska. Some repair dude was shipped up there from the west coast and he had to go up the towers to fix 2 turbines. One had something stop it spinning and it was just caked with rock solid ice. That had to be removed before he could work. He didn't want to go up there at all but having come all the way from Cali (I think) they wanted him up there. These turbines were not as big as the ones you usually see and the tower was a steel framed one, not a column. So out side climbing only, not up the middle. Was interesting to watch. Not something I would do.

I just saw this: http://beforeitsnews.com/financial-markets/2014/11/4-ways-to-heat-your-house-without-electricity-2792804.html

Build a tent or fort they say.

[Glass]

Ponces story reminded me of this TV show. This is how I imagine ponce in his tent or fort.

I queued it as close the the right part as I could but it needs some background.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD5bYsNmzg8#t=374

But for some reason the embedded video does not want to start there. try the link and see if it queues up properly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=TD5bYsNmzg8#t=374

yes the link works properly but the embed doesn't.

[palani]

Don't burn down the place with that tea candle.

Rather than insulation line the inside with posters .. and watch the heat rise

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b7/Raquel_Welch_in_deer-skin_bikini.jpg

[Twisted Titan]

Get one of these

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004KS9HCA/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1


The wick that comes with the unit MUST NOT BE USED get the one here

http://www.milesstair.com/by_make/SENGOKU_Kerosene_Heaters.html


1-k Kerosense is very expensive @ 10 bucks a gallon because gas companies got pissed that regular folk were mixing kero with other fuels to run small engines so they jacked the price up through the roof.

That being said a tank of that will burn between 14-16 hours.

You have to perform wick matinence "dry burning" to keep it optimal

Burns very clean and minimal odor.

With properly insulated window and doorstop a single heater will comfortabally heat two very big rooms


My furnance is busted and would have been north of 6 grand to replace....this heater has literrally been a Godsend.

[General of Darkness]

Hey Glass I bet one of these could keep you warm.

http://jspivey.wikispaces.com/file/view/auschwitz-krema2.jpg/142296005/auschwitz-krema2.jpg

[gunDriller]

this point was made for me last year when i would leave my 1500 square foot
just-barely-warm-enough-to-keep-the-coffee-trees-from-dying home ...
and visit "Magic Neighbor" for coffee ... in a 200 square foot trailer - a WARM trailer.

[Cebu_4_2]

Get one of these

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004KS9HCA/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1


The wick that comes with the unit MUST NOT BE USED get the one here

http://www.milesstair.com/by_make/SENGOKU_Kerosene_Heaters.html


1-k Kerosense is very expensive @ 10 bucks a gallon because gas companies got pissed that regular folk were mixing kero with other fuels to run small engines so they jacked the price up through the roof.

That being said a tank of that will burn between 14-16 hours.

You have to perform wick matinence "dry burning" to keep it optimal

Burns very clean and minimal odor.

With properly insulated window and doorstop a single heater will comfortabally heat two very big rooms


My furnance is busted and would have been north of 6 grand to replace....this heater has literrally been a Godsend.

Whats the deal with replacing the wick? I have a couple similar heaters I sometimes use to heat the shop.

[Silver Rocket Bitches!]

You can easily heat up a tent or small room with one of these. Homemade and cheap.

http://gold-silver.us/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=7018&stc=1

[gunDriller]

I almost burned down a 12 unit condo complex using those candles.

I was cleaning and knocked one over. It was Christmas Eve. I went & sat in my truck. Thought, "Something doesn't feel right." Went back in and found a carpet on fire.

Put it out no problem, but Jesus.

[Twisted Titan]

Whats the deal with replacing the wick? I have a couple similar heaters I sometimes use to heat the shop.

The wick that comes with unit is absolutely garbage.

I read countless reviews on amazon where a bunch of problems people had got solved as soon as they replaced the wick.

I didnt understAnd myself until i saw the original one that came with the unit.

I didnt know the first thing about heaters but i knew the quailty was flimsy as opposed to what i was replacing it with.


But if you just using the unit time to time...i guess it is okay but someone using it as a primiary source anything other that optimal equipment translates into a waste of fue

Replacing the wick is kinda of tedious ( you need a philips screw driver and 30 mins) follow the instructions to the letter and you will be fine

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[mick silver]

http://www.amazon.com/CV-23K-KeroHeat-Convection-Portable-Kerosene/dp/B00E9UNNB0/ref=pd_sbs_hg_3/186-3109393-4877319?ie=UTF8&refRID=0178XH5VS7YB6J1XP61B I use this one in a shop from time to time and it done well . I like it being round it feel like it put out more heat

[Cebu_4_2]

http://www.amazon.com/CV-23K-KeroHeat-Convection-Portable-Kerosene/dp/B00E9UNNB0/ref=pd_sbs_hg_3/186-3109393-4877319?ie=UTF8&refRID=0178XH5VS7YB6J1XP61B I use this one in a shop from time to time and it done well . I like it being round it feel like it put out more heat

I had one like this years ago, people would stop by with beer and frozen pizzas and cook them on top the thing. Great memories.

[7th trump]

You guys are using lamp oil (aka.....ultra pure candle oil, cleanest burning, odorless and smokeless) and not kerosene you get from fuel stations and farm supply stores right?

I wouldnt put any kerosene burner (or candle oil burner) in any tent and sleep in it.......odorless fumes can kill or make you very sick.
Walmart carrys a blue tinted ultra pure candle oil relatively cheap for use indoors that is smokeless and odorless.
I've got about 20 gallons as a prep item and several cheap wicked glass indoor lamps from garage sales and walmart....they work great together.

However its a good practice to turn down the heat to 40 degrees for a night or two to get a feel what its like to live this way. For some of you thats going to be a normal way of life.
Glad I lived through it in the 70's and 80's growing up on a farm that was 150 years old with no central heat or air and no insulation in the walls. Straw bails around the house lime stone foundation to help keep the pipes freezing with a cheap wood burner where we all slept in the kitchen and sealed off the rest of the house with old blankets.
A hot bath (not a shower) was very much a luxury in the winter months.

[Ponce]

I have bought and have made all the heathers that you guys are talking about but I am talking about when you have used all those heathers and then have to go into the final solution or, into the back up of the back up of the back up of the back up.........Glass? I already separated my living room from the rest of the house and is where I live 95% of the time, with natural cold temperature I use less than 1/2 gallon of kerosine per day but in extreme cold I don't know yet, I'll have to wait two or three years till I use all my kerosine and then learn the average per year.......I have been thinking of also using some bubble wrap on the living room windows but they are double pannel..........I am lucky because even if my home was build in 1947 it was taken apart and renovated in 1999 and with triple insulation, it keeps cool in summer and keeps the heat very well in winter. I moved in on my birthday in 2,000 and it was like new.

Where some of you, not to many, think of tomorrow I think of the day after tomorrow... this is why I say "To be ready is not"

V