Absolutely! "Heat the person, not the room" is actually the single most important concept when you really want to save money on heating! Downside is just that sometimes, buildings need thorough heating to prevent moisture and mold buildup.
If you want to make a room warm you've got five people so make five with two tea candles in each the heat from the human body and the candles will warm up a room.
I heated my entire cabin in northern MI in winter overnight (about 20 degrees F,) by putting 25 or 30 candles in a big cake pan on my kitchen table. The cabin was warmer in the morning than when the electricity went out the day before. But I stayed awake all night long to monitor the candles.
so the cabin was 20 F what was the outdoor temp 18F , 30 candles is 30 BTU it takes 200 btu to heat a 10x10 room to 60 F if it is 45 out doors. Lucky you did not burn down or freeze to death . I lived in Mesick Mi most of my life. many times we had no power for 4 to 6 days we used layers of clothing and extra blankets all of us come out fine .
@@JCcanU, it's all about insulation. I had sealed up most everything every winter, foundation vents, storm windows and such, even put 4 inch blocks of Styrofoam in the bedroom, bathroom, and office windows. The cabin was nearly 30 feet on a side, the size of a small house, but not built as well. It was a sloppy conversion from a summer cabin.
@@johnwest7993 Insulation Helps a lot I built a shop 24x24 first winter I used 200 gallons of L/P the next winter I added Insulation R15 in the walls and Celling and used R13 in the 16 foot door used 100 gallons that winter and it stay 70 day and night when it was 10 below . I could light 200 candles on a -10 night I bet it wont get past 8 below . Candle is 1 BTU fot a 10x10 room you have to have 200 BTU That is a fact . I show you the link to do the math for you , but its not my Video . Im 100 % sure the Temp change in the home in 24 hours Locked up if it was 20 out doors it had to of got as cold as 30 in the house candles would not bring up the temp at all . If it was that Easy everyone would be doing it ever cold night all winter .
Our bedroom is easy to warm up with 3-6 candles. 12'x12' room. (3.5 meters) I've never tried to warm up Our living room with candles but it'd take a ton for sure. I tend to believe your 18 candles estimate on that one. Thanks for posting!!
What's the size of this room you're heating??? What type of candle are you using?? How many windows/doors are a part of this room?? Wood floor or carpet?? There are to many variables for this to be accurate when it comes to heating a "room" with candles..... save $ get cold weather clothing that you can layer up in to keep yourself comfortable....
I've created an oil burner with a permanent wick and I place it in a terra cotta chimenea. It warms the room nicely and emits almost no CO (about 5-8 ppm) after a few hours. I put a pie tin on top to contain and radiate that heat and use a Sterling motor stove fan, which requires no electricity, to distribute the heat about the room. The burner is made from a simple steel paint sample can, carbon felt for a wick, and paraffin oil.
Good question. When the weather is very icy & I do not have heat, I put a nightlight in the kitchen sink & one in the bath. Just make sure there is nothing that can fall or blow near the nightlight. This helps to prevent pipes from freezing, if it is extremely cold I sometimes use two.. It is probably better to use a hot water bottle or two than candles but ensure you know how to use them safely. All the best to everyone coping with the cold.
I think the idea of the plant pot heater is to create heat when there is no power. I’m over here in the uk where they are floating the idea of three hour blackouts for every weekday through the winter. I’m home caring for my 84 year old mother and trying to find anyway I can to keep her warm for those three hours, if they do this. Plug in an electric heater.. doesn’t really help when there’s no electric.
There are hot water-bottles & there are bags with wheat husks etc in which can be warmed in the microwave before the blackout. Also there are wind-up torches. The times of the blackouts are planned to be predictable.
Exactly. For example it was -20 with no electricity, and no LP. I used 3 blankets for warmth. I had several candles burning. I used flashlights for going to the bathroom. Fortunately, my house is well insulated. As for cooking I used MRE Espit stoves so at least I could boil water to make coffee.
@@heatertipsyou can make your own candles, there are how to videos on it. you just need a glass cup ( I use a small coffee cup made of ceramic clay instead) fill it with any oil, cheap oil like sunflower oil is fine, then you need an organic cord for the wick made of cotton, you can get a huge roll at any fabric or arts and craft store, even clipping a small piece of cotton fabric and rolling it as if you were rolling a cigar works. Anyways look up the info, its all over the internet and UA-cam
The best way to heat your bed when you are inside it, is with a hair blowdrier, in 30 seconds you are toasty. Just make sure your blankets are wool to retain the heat, I sleeps nice and toasty through the night, and in just a cotton t shirt, no heating on in the apartment, the blowdryer is a magical trick
Have you ever had Christmas with only candlelight? It does heat up the room. Try 40 or more candles spaced out throughout the room. Not only beautiful but cozy.
I have 20 candles on now (NO POTS just lit candles) and I spent 4p per candle - last 4 hrs. 20p per hour. I have them in a ceramic cooking pot for safety. My heater is 85p per hour (electric). I have 400 candles from a power cut. I'm here during the day. This is just a test
you can also make your own candles, the size of the wick from a cord can be determined how thick you want it, for example, an organic cotton cord he ones normally seen on hoodies (you can buy a roll at any craft store) can produce a bigger flame than any tea lights, it all depends of the size of the flame, just one home made candle with a thick organic cord used to produce the flame can account for 3-4 tealights.
Try using soapstone under the flame instead of the flowerpot, soapstone absorbs the heat and distributes it for hours, even when the candles aren't burning anymore.
There's a pretty big difference between tea lights and a stick candle. The stick candles put out allot more heat, but are more prone to tipping over. I notice a difference when I burn 3 or 4 stick candles for a few hours in one room with the door closed. Could be in my head, but I dont think so.
Yep the wick is the difference, the cheapo stick candles wick stays longer while burning for whatever reason compared to any other candles I've had. The stick ones are kind of annoying too because they can drop wax off the sides. I liked your video man, just facts and observations, no filler.
Putting a flower pot above the candles does not add any heat to the room. They make the room feel warmer because the pot is absorbing the heat then re-radiating it down where we can feel it. If we burn candles without an absorptive surface above them, all the heat will rise rapidly the ceiling, above our heads, where we can't feel or use it. If there is a flower pot (or cast iron pan, or whatever) above the candles, it will absorb the heat, and the heat will (for a while) stay down where we can feel it. With that said, flower pot heaters are extremely dangerous, just as untended candles can be. A better solution in the event of a power outage would be to focus on heating yourself instead of the room. Just buy a little lithium generator that can hold 500 watt hours; plug a 40 watt heating pad into it; put it on your lap and pull a blanket on top; and it'll keep you toasty for 12 hours (or even longer, because the pads cycle on and off.) If you're concerned that the power will be out for a few days, buy a solar panel so you can keep recharging the generator. In longer power outages, boil some water over a little fire (outdoors); pour the boiling water into a hot water bottle; and it'll provide you with several hours of heat (again heating you, not the room you're in.)
Thanks for bust this myth! I tried it in many ways only using a candle 🕯 as in all the "tutorials" they show it and I never heat any room. I will definitely subscribe to your channel, I hope you make more videos. - Ramon 🇲🇽
Agree about the flower pot heater but if you change the design so the inner flower pot has 5 candles under it so it gets so hot you cannot touch it and place a larger pot over it with a gap below them to draw air through it and out the top holes of the pots, it does release hot air into the room. I have experimented with it, got the draw correct and after 4 hours the room temperature went up 4 degrees. Not through radiant heat from the hot pots but by putting hot air into the room. This will mean I can leave my heating thermostat at a low level of 16 degrees and have one of these doing it’s thing in a used room for very little cost. As the house is very efficient anyway, the heating system shouldn’t kick in too often? 👍
@@heatertips It was a warm day but the room temperature was stable at 19 degrees before I started the experiment, and not naturally rising. I also had 65% humidity so quite a lot of moisture to warm up. Appreciated a warm room would be easier to heat but just wanted to see if I could raise the temperature any. Used 5 x 8 hour tea light candles under quite a thin walled clay pot with a hole in the top (21cm tall pot). That got very hot very quickly, so you could not touch it. Then I placed the larger pot over it. The outer pot did get hot but nowhere near as hot as the inner pot. Both pots stood off the base by 27mm and tin foil was under the whole assembly to reflect. The heat can be felt quite a way above the pots as it come out the top holes onto back of my hand telling me there was a definite push which was transferring hot air into the room. I will try it in colder weather and see what happens. Yes I understand the laws of thermodynamics but if it is pushing some hot air into a room and keeping me from pushing the thermostat up in these times of ridiculous energy costs in the UK, then it’ll do for me 🤔👍
@Name Field That is a dangerous design. Candles close together, inner pot only, small pot, tie bar and fixings. Good base, no rod or fixings, larger inner pot, candles good quality wax, larger outer pot. All in the design!
So you've turned a mostly convection (flame heats air,), to mostly radiant (inner plant pot traps hot air, radiates it as infra red), to mostly convection (outer plant pot blocks radiation, draws air to cool inside surface). You could of skipped all those steps and just burnt the candles to heat the air directly. With the added bonus of having pleasing visible light from them, and had them nicely distributed around the room.
very wholesome channel, hope you get where you are dreaming to be man. thanks for the tips its getting colder and colder by the day and i have a big house that wont stay warm because its old and needs alot of work
Canging the form and direction of the energy will make a huge difference to the actual HEAT reaching the person who needs it ie change the wasteful convection which is gone almost as soon as it appears into infra red which will heat people close to it. You could also direct the majority of the infra red output towards the people by making a simple U shaped reflector out of stiff cardboard and cover one side of it in heat proof chrome foil and place that on the opposite side of the flower pots from the people.
If it takes 18 candles to heat a small room, I often wonder if I can make like a giant tub of candles from crisco, put 18 wicks in it and just light them up. Crisco candles can last for a week.
CO emissions from candles is negligible. Just crack a door or window for 30 seconds every few hours and you're fine unless you are in an airtight space.
This Guy is talking the truth :). Follow him as this is just simple Physics. These Candle heat inside a Pot Plant cannot create more Heat then a Candle can maximum deliver :)
Of course it can't, but changing the form and direction of the energy will make a huge difference to the actual HEAT reaching the person who needs it ie change the wasteful convection which is gone almost as soon as it appears into infra red which will heat the people close to it. You could also direct the majority of the infra red output towards the people by making a simple U shaped reflector out of stiff cardboard and cover one side of it in heat proof chrome foil and place that on the opposite side of the flower pots from the people.
Gas to heat water in radiators is cheaper than electric in the UK as of Oct 22. Tea light heaters with or without a terracotta pot is more expensive that turning gas on right now *oct 22 uk )
Hi Tiqo, I used the number from this experiment: www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/questions/how-many-watts-burning-candle The authors only specify "petroleum-based wax candle". So, I assume that's just any regular candle. Of course, you'll find varying numbers online.
You do realize that the flower pot heater are pushed for power outages and you recommend an electric heater, right there proves you just never paid attention to the videos mentioning them. Thumbs down for you.
Daang! You said this Just as I found this page from how many candles to heat a room. The Reason I want a Candle Stove, is Because I'm Sick of Space heaters, and the fact that EVERYBODY ELSE uses space heaters which cause the Fuze to blow. I'm trying to come up with a method that can eliminate candles. I'm trying to make a PENNY STOVE which runs off of Alcohol or HEET.
Guy you are missing the point. If the grids are down people won’t have a way to plug things in, that’s the whole point of the candle heat, for emergency. I’m going to guess you have never been without power
The last time I have been without power was about 1 week ago in Nepal, where we had a 30-minute outage spanning the whole city. Of course, we did not know how long it will last, so we fired a wood stove. Heating with candles even in an outage is not feasible. In these situations, candles are overpriced due to increased demand. It is much wiser to prepare firewood for emergencies.
@@heatertips Ich glaube es ist nicht der Akzent. Es ist der Sprachflow, also wie du die Buchstaben betonst. Im englischen oder speziell im Amerikanischen Englisch, musst du die Sprache, die Buchstaben, die Betonung sehr locker fließen lassen. Löse die Barriere in deinem Kopf. Wenn du aufhörst im Kopf deutsch zu sprechen, also wenn du dir Gedanken machst, denkst du in deiner Muttersprache. Wenn du das anlegst und zu lässt das die englische Sprache quasi deine Gedankensprache wird, wirst du Blockaden und den Sprachfluss ganz einfach beeinflussen können und deine Aussprache wird sanfter und nicht so kantig. Ja du wirst lachen, aber die Amis lachen über uns weil wir so starrköpfig sind. Ja das stimmt das wird uns von klein auf eingepflanzt. Legst du das ab, wirst deine Aussprache sehr weich und flüssig. Train it everyday my Friend!!!
What about using a woodburning stove but doesn't need to be installed with a flue, inside it, put a muffin tray cake tin and fill it with long lasting tealights, the fires contained for safety and the heat the candles gives off is absorbed and radiated out from the cast iron stove.
This does not change the fact that candle wax as a heat source is much more expensive than electricity, oil or gas. The stove does not impact the efficiency of the candles. They would not produce more heat than without the stove. It would only be, as you said, as safety improvement.
@@heatertips here in the UK with current ridiculous energy prices, ive looked up buying tealights in bulk. And would be cheaper than my current electric heating. We can't get gas in my flat. It doesn't change the heat output but it turns it from convection heating to radiant heating and anyone who has had both can feel the difference.
I got it as a birthday gift a few years ago, but it's not available anymore. I been looking, but I can't find this exact model for sale anywhere. Anyways, any Infrared heater will do! There's nothing special about the model I have.
how does a oven work 10 small candle size gas lights? it heats up the oven and gets hotter and hotter which is why the gas regulates, you cant have a electric heater if theres no power lol
I'm just curious, if someone has tested to put 18 tea candles inside wood stove and light them and will they heat up the room safely because they are inside the stove?
Probably nobody tested that. If someone did, I'd be curious as well. I guess heating with candles is pointless if you have a wood stove. Then you can just use wood (expensive currently). Heating with wood is a lot more scalable for large rooms and entire houses.
You make a rocket stove or another that use combustible materials and on flame,you put a box with sand . ,3 from this metalic box it must to have 2 or more kg once . After sand it's hot,it must to remain somewhere to 5 hours . Combustible materials you find at garbage containers for free enough : paper, cartoon, wood, clothes from cotton .
I just have heating pads for footwear, heater trousers/jackets, enough power banks and a Diesel aggregator fueled with Bio Algae Diesel (which isn't as hard as you might think to produce). Kind of pointless and wasteful to heat an entire room/house. The whole point is to keep yourself warm, so stick to warm clothing and optionally heaters underneath it.
A Flower pot is as Hot as a Radiator, with Three Tea lights, I Have Three Different Sizes of Flower pots all Bolted Together and it Does Work, it is Not Hot But it Does Take the Chill Out of the Air.
A flower pot gets as hot as a radiator because its heat capacity is just a fraction of that of a radiator or a stove. Anything with low heat capacity won't be able to heat a room, no matter how hot it gets. You can't heat a room using a match, even though a burning match gets well over 1,800°F (1000°C).
@@heatertips It Warms the Area you are in, and if you put your Hand on the pot it will Burn you, it as Got to Radiat Heat, or a Radiator wouldn't Make Any Difference, Just a Smaller Device, it as Ventilation Holes in the Top Pot to Circulate the Heat, it Certainly Works for Me.
Thank You at last somebody tells THE TRUTH, clay pot teal light heaters are not a miracle alternative to central heating ;) I viewed 1 video on here, next thing my stream is full of tea light heater videos all claiming 4 candles & a plant pot can heat a room BS.
I know this is an old video, but I felt the need to comment that you are actually not correct in your conclusion. You are confusing the physics of heating a volume of air with being warm. When you are next to the flower pot you feel warmer, because you are warmer. Without it, the candle would need to heat the entire volume of air before you warm up. By your logic, a camp fire cannot keep you alive in the night because it has not heated up the entire planet.
electric heaters are incediby bad at heating, they use so much energy. If you are on a budget and dont need a 28°c room buy a kerasine lamp (the lamps that look like theyre from 1900). Candle pots are used for keeping alive, not heating a room to be comfortable. kerasine *candles* are extremely flammeable, dont ever leave them unatended.
One day, I'll do a comparison of the cost between kerosene and space heaters considering how much heat each of them provides. But yes, it could be that kerosene is more cost effective!
Does anyone know where to buy kerosene as I bought a small kerosene camping stove but when I tried to buy kerosene they only sell minimum 500 litres? I am near Exeter in Devon
@@hunterfiona1 B&Q, in the UK we call it Parrafin, yanks refer to that as Kerosene. To us brits, Kerosene is heavier grade heating oil sold in bulk. You can get parrafin on ebay. For energy density per litre to cost ratio, you have to buy about 100 litres and burn it so all exhaust gasses are in your room to get the same cost per KWh as electricity. You're better off using your heating. Parrafin, like all hydrocarbon fuels produces both CO2 and H20 when it burns. Each litre of parrafin will put about 1 litre of water vapour into your room as it burns. You'll have a very damp house within a few days unless you run a dehumidifier.
@killcar5nbike2 Paraffin & kerosene are NOT the same. Kerosene produces a stringer oder & more soot. Use it in hurricane lamps (outdoors). Fore the Victorian oil lamp inside use paraffin.
These candle heat videos are going to get a lot of views this winter.
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I'm sure they will! 😊🌎✨
@@Reaper9-4 Why so?
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Yea this aged poorly 😂
I heat a clay pot with 1 tea candle, and sit within 1 Metre of it. Sitting close to the Clay pot is the main thing. "Heat the person not the room."
Absolutely! "Heat the person, not the room" is actually the single most important concept when you really want to save money on heating! Downside is just that sometimes, buildings need thorough heating to prevent moisture and mold buildup.
If you want to make a room warm you've got five people so make five with two tea candles in each the heat from the human body and the candles will warm up a room.
@@reneek7721 "how to get five people" video.
@@Catthepunk:
A few friends could work.
@@reneek7721 I mean, how to get friends that will just stay at your house to warm it up.
I heated my entire cabin in northern MI in winter overnight (about 20 degrees F,) by putting 25 or 30 candles in a big cake pan on my kitchen table. The cabin was warmer in the morning than when the electricity went out the day before. But I stayed awake all night long to monitor the candles.
so the cabin was 20 F what was the outdoor temp 18F , 30 candles is 30 BTU it takes 200 btu to heat a 10x10 room to 60 F if it is 45 out doors. Lucky you did not burn down or freeze to death . I lived in Mesick Mi most of my life. many times we had no power for 4 to 6 days we used layers of clothing and extra blankets all of us come out fine .
@@JCcanU, it's all about insulation. I had sealed up most everything every winter, foundation vents, storm windows and such, even put 4 inch blocks of Styrofoam in the bedroom, bathroom, and office windows. The cabin was nearly 30 feet on a side, the size of a small house, but not built as well. It was a sloppy conversion from a summer cabin.
@@johnwest7993 Insulation Helps a lot I built a shop 24x24 first winter I used 200 gallons of L/P the next winter I added Insulation R15 in the walls and Celling and used R13 in the 16 foot door used 100 gallons that winter and it stay 70 day and night when it was 10 below . I could light 200 candles on a -10 night I bet it wont get past 8 below . Candle is 1 BTU fot a 10x10 room you have to have 200 BTU That is a fact . I show you the link to do the math for you , but its not my Video . Im 100 % sure the Temp change in the home in 24 hours Locked up if it was 20 out doors it had to of got as cold as 30 in the house candles would not bring up the temp at all . If it was that Easy everyone would be doing it ever cold night all winter .
Do you have to crack a window for ventilation?
@@HOPE.TheresNoPlaceLikeHomeClub for Vent free Gas heat? No Just going outdoors 2 times a day is good . If it Detects CO2 it turns off .
Our bedroom is easy to warm up with 3-6 candles. 12'x12' room. (3.5 meters)
I've never tried to warm up Our living room with candles but it'd take a ton for sure. I tend to believe your 18 candles estimate on that one.
Thanks for posting!!
What's the size of this room you're heating??? What type of candle are you using?? How many windows/doors are a part of this room?? Wood floor or carpet?? There are to many variables for this to be accurate when it comes to heating a "room" with candles..... save $ get cold weather clothing that you can layer up in to keep yourself comfortable....
I've created an oil burner with a permanent wick and I place it in a terra cotta chimenea. It warms the room nicely and emits almost no CO (about 5-8 ppm) after a few hours. I put a pie tin on top to contain and radiate that heat and use a Sterling motor stove fan, which requires no electricity, to distribute the heat about the room. The burner is made from a simple steel paint sample can, carbon felt for a wick, and paraffin oil.
Good question.
When the weather is very icy & I do not have heat, I put a nightlight in the kitchen sink & one in the bath. Just make sure there is nothing that can fall or blow near the nightlight. This helps to prevent pipes from freezing, if it is extremely cold I sometimes use two..
It is probably better to use a hot water bottle or two than candles but ensure you know how to use them safely. All the best to everyone coping with the cold.
Thank God for your rationality !
I think the idea of the plant pot heater is to create heat when there is no power. I’m over here in the uk where they are floating the idea of three hour blackouts for every weekday through the winter. I’m home caring for my 84 year old mother and trying to find anyway I can to keep her warm for those three hours, if they do this. Plug in an electric heater.. doesn’t really help when there’s no electric.
There are hot water-bottles & there are bags with wheat husks etc in which can be warmed in the microwave before the blackout. Also there are wind-up torches. The times of the blackouts are planned to be predictable.
You're killing me, if the power goes off how are you going to use an electric heater?
Lunar Power is all the rage!
Exactly. For example it was -20 with no electricity, and no LP. I used 3 blankets for warmth. I had several candles burning. I used flashlights for going to the bathroom. Fortunately, my house is well insulated. As for cooking I used MRE Espit stoves so at least I could boil water to make coffee.
@@williammitchell4417:
I'm getting everything secured.
Candles, blankets, tent inside the house with rugs under it sheets over it.
@@reneek7721 if you haven't thought about it yet, I also have a snowmobile suit just in case.
@@williammitchell4417:
Got it, I live in Iowa 🤔. Snow shovel✓ boots✓ gloves and hat ✓.
I feel a rise in temperature when I light 2 candles. This winter gas prices are too high, so we heat our house with just 45 candles.
How much do you pay for your candles? And how long do they last?
@@heatertipsyou can make your own candles, there are how to videos on it. you just need a glass cup ( I use a small coffee cup made of ceramic clay instead) fill it with any oil, cheap oil like sunflower oil is fine, then you need an organic cord for the wick made of cotton, you can get a huge roll at any fabric or arts and craft store, even clipping a small piece of cotton fabric and rolling it as if you were rolling a cigar works. Anyways look up the info, its all over the internet and UA-cam
2 candles makes no difference. Its in your mind.
The best way to heat your bed when you are inside it, is with a hair blowdrier, in 30 seconds you are toasty. Just make sure your blankets are wool to retain the heat, I sleeps nice and toasty through the night, and in just a cotton t shirt, no heating on in the apartment, the blowdryer is a magical trick
Very useful info! Thank you!
Have you ever had Christmas with only candlelight? It does heat up the room. Try 40 or more candles spaced out throughout the room. Not only beautiful but cozy.
I have 20 candles on now (NO POTS just lit candles) and I spent 4p per candle - last 4 hrs. 20p per hour. I have them in a ceramic cooking pot for safety. My heater is 85p per hour (electric). I have 400 candles from a power cut. I'm here during the day. This is just a test
you can also make your own candles, the size of the wick from a cord can be determined how thick you want it, for example, an organic cotton cord he ones normally seen on hoodies (you can buy a roll at any craft store) can produce a bigger flame than any tea lights, it all depends of the size of the flame, just one home made candle with a thick organic cord used to produce the flame can account for 3-4 tealights.
Try using soapstone under the flame instead of the flowerpot, soapstone absorbs the heat and distributes it for hours, even when the candles aren't burning anymore.
There's a pretty big difference between tea lights and a stick candle.
The stick candles put out allot more heat, but are more prone to tipping over.
I notice a difference when I burn 3 or 4 stick candles for a few hours in one room with the door closed.
Could be in my head, but I dont think so.
Candle size and shape isn't the main factor. It's the size and/or number of wicks. T
Yep the wick is the difference, the cheapo stick candles wick stays longer while burning for whatever reason compared to any other candles I've had.
The stick ones are kind of annoying too because they can drop wax off the sides.
I liked your video man, just facts and observations, no filler.
No they dont produce more heat. Wick size matters. Not candle size.
Putting a flower pot above the candles does not add any heat to the room. They make the room feel warmer because the pot is absorbing the heat then re-radiating it down where we can feel it. If we burn candles without an absorptive surface above them, all the heat will rise rapidly the ceiling, above our heads, where we can't feel or use it. If there is a flower pot (or cast iron pan, or whatever) above the candles, it will absorb the heat, and the heat will (for a while) stay down where we can feel it.
With that said, flower pot heaters are extremely dangerous, just as untended candles can be. A better solution in the event of a power outage would be to focus on heating yourself instead of the room. Just buy a little lithium generator that can hold 500 watt hours; plug a 40 watt heating pad into it; put it on your lap and pull a blanket on top; and it'll keep you toasty for 12 hours (or even longer, because the pads cycle on and off.) If you're concerned that the power will be out for a few days, buy a solar panel so you can keep recharging the generator.
In longer power outages, boil some water over a little fire (outdoors); pour the boiling water into a hot water bottle; and it'll provide you with several hours of heat (again heating you, not the room you're in.)
Thank you for this video I’m in a cold room right now
Thanks for bust this myth! I tried it in many ways only using a candle 🕯 as in all the "tutorials" they show it and I never heat any room. I will definitely subscribe to your channel, I hope you make more videos. - Ramon 🇲🇽
Cute and informative. ☺️☺️☺️
I heat my tiny house with a flower pot heater. Just curious, are you a physicist?
Nice! I'm an engineer ☺️
Agree about the flower pot heater but if you change the design so the inner flower pot has 5 candles under it so it gets so hot you cannot touch it and place a larger pot over it with a gap below them to draw air through it and out the top holes of the pots, it does release hot air into the room. I have experimented with it, got the draw correct and after 4 hours the room temperature went up 4 degrees. Not through radiant heat from the hot pots but by putting hot air into the room. This will mean I can leave my heating thermostat at a low level of 16 degrees and have one of these doing it’s thing in a used room for very little cost. As the house is very efficient anyway, the heating system shouldn’t kick in too often? 👍
4 degrees with 5 candles is quite impressive. What's the base temperature (without the flower pot heater) in your room?
@@heatertips It was a warm day but the room temperature was stable at 19 degrees before I started the experiment, and not naturally rising. I also had 65% humidity so quite a lot of moisture to warm up. Appreciated a warm room would be easier to heat but just wanted to see if I could raise the temperature any. Used 5 x 8 hour tea light candles under quite a thin walled clay pot with a hole in the top (21cm tall pot). That got very hot very quickly, so you could not touch it. Then I placed the larger pot over it. The outer pot did get hot but nowhere near as hot as the inner pot. Both pots stood off the base by 27mm and tin foil was under the whole assembly to reflect. The heat can be felt quite a way above the pots as it come out the top holes onto back of my hand telling me there was a definite push which was transferring hot air into the room. I will try it in colder weather and see what happens. Yes I understand the laws of thermodynamics but if it is pushing some hot air into a room and keeping me from pushing the thermostat up in these times of ridiculous energy costs in the UK, then it’ll do for me 🤔👍
@Name Field That is a dangerous design. Candles close together, inner pot only, small pot, tie bar and fixings. Good base, no rod or fixings, larger inner pot, candles good quality wax, larger outer pot. All in the design!
So you've turned a mostly convection (flame heats air,), to mostly radiant (inner plant pot traps hot air, radiates it as infra red), to mostly convection (outer plant pot blocks radiation, draws air to cool inside surface).
You could of skipped all those steps and just burnt the candles to heat the air directly. With the added bonus of having pleasing visible light from them, and had them nicely distributed around the room.
@@killcar5nbike2 Yeah but it works!
very wholesome channel, hope you get where you are dreaming to be man. thanks for the tips its getting colder and colder by the day and i have a big house that wont stay warm because its old and needs alot of work
Thanks a lot for your nice words, mate! Probably you'll need to do something about the insulation...
Concentrates the heat energy in a Contained area or perimeter.
The flower pot retains the heat longer than the air around and above the candle.
By virtue of doing that it also delays the heat from the candle as it warms up. You could just light the candle later and have the same effect.
Canging the form and direction of the energy will make a huge difference to the actual HEAT reaching the person who needs it ie change the wasteful convection which is gone almost as soon as it appears into infra red which will heat people close to it. You could also direct the majority of the infra red output towards the people by making a simple U shaped reflector out of stiff cardboard and cover one side of it in heat proof chrome foil and place that on the opposite side of the flower pots from the people.
If it takes 18 candles to heat a small room, I often wonder if I can make like a giant tub of candles from crisco, put 18 wicks in it and just light them up. Crisco candles can last for a week.
Beware of the carbon monoxide produced by burning candles, as well as the potential fire hazard. Alway ensure you have sufficient ventilation.
Use soy wax candle. It’s expensive, but much better.
CO emissions from candles is negligible. Just crack a door or window for 30 seconds every few hours and you're fine unless you are in an airtight space.
This Guy is talking the truth :). Follow him as this is just simple Physics. These Candle heat inside a Pot Plant cannot create more Heat then a Candle can maximum deliver :)
Thank you!
Of course it can't, but changing the form and direction of the energy will make a huge difference to the actual HEAT reaching the person who needs it ie change the wasteful convection which is gone almost as soon as it appears into infra red which will heat the people close to it. You could also direct the majority of the infra red output towards the people by making a simple U shaped reflector out of stiff cardboard and cover one side of it in heat proof chrome foil and place that on the opposite side of the flower pots from the people.
Gas to heat water in radiators is cheaper than electric in the UK as of Oct 22. Tea light heaters with or without a terracotta pot is more expensive that turning gas on right now *oct 22 uk )
Great video... you are 100% correct. A BTU is a BTU but you have to remember all of those candles produce carbon dioxide.
I suggest looking up Robert Murray-smith... fabulous vidoes.
they are good for heating rooms .
What kind of canles (the ones you refer to as the 80 watts ones) are you talking about ?
Hi Tiqo, I used the number from this experiment: www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/questions/how-many-watts-burning-candle
The authors only specify "petroleum-based wax candle". So, I assume that's just any regular candle.
Of course, you'll find varying numbers online.
An electronic heater isn't something that any South African should be using until our only power company and government gets their act together.
YES! FLOWER POT HEATERS DO NOT MAKE MORE HEAT THAN THE CANDLE IT SELF.
THANK YOU
Yes, it's unbelievable for some people 😂
Yes they do.
Candles are more expensive than gas. Fact....
You do realize that the flower pot heater are pushed for power outages and you recommend an electric heater, right there proves you just never paid attention to the videos mentioning them. Thumbs down for you.
Daang! You said this Just as I found this page from how many candles to heat a room.
The Reason I want a Candle Stove, is Because I'm Sick of Space heaters, and the fact that EVERYBODY ELSE uses space heaters which cause the Fuze to blow.
I'm trying to come up with a method that can eliminate candles. I'm trying to make a PENNY STOVE which runs off of Alcohol or HEET.
10 candels every 3 houers with 2 flwoer pots in a 4 by 4 meter room 5 candels in each pot
Guy you are missing the point. If the grids are down people won’t have a way to plug things in, that’s the whole point of the candle heat, for emergency. I’m going to guess you have never been without power
The last time I have been without power was about 1 week ago in Nepal, where we had a 30-minute outage spanning the whole city. Of course, we did not know how long it will last, so we fired a wood stove.
Heating with candles even in an outage is not feasible. In these situations, candles are overpriced due to increased demand. It is much wiser to prepare firewood for emergencies.
Hey Buddy , i enjoyed your video. Are you from germany?
Hi mate! Yes, I am!
@@heatertips Hab's an deiner Aussprache bemerkt.👍😅
@@stratossatmospheros8722 Nicht schlecht! So ganz werde ich den Akzent glaube ich nie los. Aber will ich auch nicht 😄
@@heatertips Ich glaube es ist nicht der Akzent. Es ist der Sprachflow, also wie du die Buchstaben betonst. Im englischen oder speziell im Amerikanischen Englisch, musst du die Sprache, die Buchstaben, die Betonung sehr locker fließen lassen. Löse die Barriere in deinem Kopf. Wenn du aufhörst im Kopf deutsch zu sprechen, also wenn du dir Gedanken machst, denkst du in deiner Muttersprache. Wenn du das anlegst und zu lässt das die englische Sprache quasi deine Gedankensprache wird, wirst du Blockaden und den Sprachfluss ganz einfach beeinflussen können und deine Aussprache wird sanfter und nicht so kantig. Ja du wirst lachen, aber die Amis lachen über uns weil wir so starrköpfig sind. Ja das stimmt das wird uns von klein auf eingepflanzt. Legst du das ab, wirst deine Aussprache sehr weich und flüssig. Train it everyday my Friend!!!
Nothing to worry about because hydro is free?
um have you seen the price of candles lately plus they will only burn four one hour
What about using a woodburning stove but doesn't need to be installed with a flue, inside it, put a muffin tray cake tin and fill it with long lasting tealights, the fires contained for safety and the heat the candles gives off is absorbed and radiated out from the cast iron stove.
This does not change the fact that candle wax as a heat source is much more expensive than electricity, oil or gas.
The stove does not impact the efficiency of the candles. They would not produce more heat than without the stove.
It would only be, as you said, as safety improvement.
@@heatertips here in the UK with current ridiculous energy prices, ive looked up buying tealights in bulk. And would be cheaper than my current electric heating. We can't get gas in my flat. It doesn't change the heat output but it turns it from convection heating to radiant heating and anyone who has had both can feel the difference.
Where did you buy your infrared heater and do you know if that model is available in the UK?
I got it as a birthday gift a few years ago, but it's not available anymore. I been looking, but I can't find this exact model for sale anywhere.
Anyways, any Infrared heater will do! There's nothing special about the model I have.
how does a oven work 10 small candle size gas lights? it heats up the oven and gets hotter and hotter which is why the gas regulates, you cant have a electric heater if theres no power lol
I'm just curious, if someone has tested to put 18 tea candles inside wood stove and light them and will they heat up the room safely because they are inside the stove?
Probably nobody tested that. If someone did, I'd be curious as well.
I guess heating with candles is pointless if you have a wood stove. Then you can just use wood (expensive currently). Heating with wood is a lot more scalable for large rooms and entire houses.
Don’t be stupid
you know nothing aboout heating rooms with candels fact
You make a rocket stove or another that use combustible materials and on flame,you put a box with sand . ,3 from this metalic box it must to have 2 or more kg once . After sand it's hot,it must to remain somewhere to 5 hours . Combustible materials you find at garbage containers for free enough : paper, cartoon, wood, clothes from cotton .
Here is my sandstove:
Free energy sand stove. ua-cam.com/video/RgmQXNggNJ4/v-deo.html
I like electric radiator heaters, I can put a blanket over it and me and I'm sweating in -20F degree weather
the pot heater is for a small bath room not a bed room
Well I guess the flower pot might collect the soot at least
Yes, for sure. I'd say flower pot heaters are only good in emergencies. Else, stick to a clean and safe heating method.
No soot at all,
I just have heating pads for footwear, heater trousers/jackets, enough power banks and a Diesel aggregator fueled with Bio Algae Diesel (which isn't as hard as you might think to produce).
Kind of pointless and wasteful to heat an entire room/house. The whole point is to keep yourself warm, so stick to warm clothing and optionally heaters underneath it.
A Flower pot is as Hot as a Radiator, with Three Tea lights, I Have Three Different Sizes of Flower pots all Bolted Together and it Does Work, it is Not Hot But it Does Take the Chill Out of the Air.
A flower pot gets as hot as a radiator because its heat capacity is just a fraction of that of a radiator or a stove.
Anything with low heat capacity won't be able to heat a room, no matter how hot it gets. You can't heat a room using a match, even though a burning match gets well over 1,800°F (1000°C).
@@heatertips It Warms the Area you are in, and if you put your Hand on the pot it will Burn you, it as Got to Radiat Heat, or a Radiator wouldn't Make Any Difference, Just a Smaller Device, it as Ventilation Holes in the Top Pot to Circulate the Heat, it Certainly Works for Me.
Exaktly
Im in Europe - please offer a link to a german/european heater. Thanks
That's a good one: amzn.to/3RAK19K
Thank You at last somebody tells THE TRUTH, clay pot teal light heaters are not a miracle alternative to central heating ;) I viewed 1 video on here, next thing my stream is full of tea light heater videos all claiming 4 candles & a plant pot can heat a room BS.
Trying to get that candle to put out more heat is like trying to get hot water from the cold spicket.
Do people mispronounce spigot because they misspell it, or do they misspell it because they pronounce it wrong? 🤯😊
@@nadogrl:
Don't you worry about a little thing sugar britches it's all the same thing, water comes out of it.
I know this is an old video, but I felt the need to comment that you are actually not correct in your conclusion.
You are confusing the physics of heating a volume of air with being warm. When you are next to the flower pot you feel warmer, because you are warmer.
Without it, the candle would need to heat the entire volume of air before you warm up.
By your logic, a camp fire cannot keep you alive in the night because it has not heated up the entire planet.
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electric heaters are incediby bad at heating, they use so much energy. If you are on a budget and dont need a 28°c room buy a kerasine lamp (the lamps that look like theyre from 1900). Candle pots are used for keeping alive, not heating a room to be comfortable. kerasine *candles* are extremely flammeable, dont ever leave them unatended.
One day, I'll do a comparison of the cost between kerosene and space heaters considering how much heat each of them provides. But yes, it could be that kerosene is more cost effective!
Does anyone know where to buy kerosene as I bought a small kerosene camping stove but when I tried to buy kerosene they only sell minimum 500 litres? I am near Exeter in Devon
@@hunterfiona1 B&Q, in the UK we call it Parrafin, yanks refer to that as Kerosene. To us brits, Kerosene is heavier grade heating oil sold in bulk.
You can get parrafin on ebay. For energy density per litre to cost ratio, you have to buy about 100 litres and burn it so all exhaust gasses are in your room to get the same cost per KWh as electricity.
You're better off using your heating.
Parrafin, like all hydrocarbon fuels produces both CO2 and H20 when it burns. Each litre of parrafin will put about 1 litre of water vapour into your room as it burns. You'll have a very damp house within a few days unless you run a dehumidifier.
@killcar5nbike2 Paraffin & kerosene are NOT the same. Kerosene produces a stringer oder & more soot. Use it in hurricane lamps (outdoors). Fore the Victorian oil lamp inside use paraffin.
Did u know that Candles🕯work solar panels lol
Candles are toxic 🤢🤮
You need to show, not talk.
It is simple physics
OMG ...... lol. What a BS. .......better stuff in the US as in Europe....... ???
give me a break lol
Why are you so angry? We don't have any good and popular in-country brands like Dr. Infrared or Mr. Heater in Europe. We only import from China.
Ich bin nicht böse, aber Ich lebe seit 11 Jahren in den USA und weiss wovon ich rede. ;-)
While I do appreciate anyone debunking ineffective methods, how you gonna turn that heater ON when SHTF & there's no juice?
You don't. Instead you heat with wood, gas or dried animal dung.