Posted by Rod Speed on December 28, 2007, 3:21 pm
keithcorn7@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi folks,
> I am living in an old house that was once build for many kids. They
> run around and stay warm. That's why my house has no doors on the
> inside. I isolated the windows with plastic and tape and put curtains
> up to keep the heat of my space heater to keep one room warm. It helps
> a bit but it still feels like in a not very well isolated log cabin.
> I have a gas heater in the kitchen but the heat goes straight up to
> the ceiling and below, where I am sitting, it stays rather cold and
> gas is expensive too.
> I am mainly sitting around my desk and typing. I was thinking of
> building something around my desk to just keep me warm when sitting
> inside and doing my desk work and have an electrical heater blowing
> some heat at me. But the heat goes lost in the rather big rooms.
> I have currently no car to transport lumber in my house and start to
> build myself a shed within one of my rooms. I am also not too handly
> with hammer and tools. I know, it is a shame, but this is how it is.
> Do you have any ideas?
Buy a coolroom and install it in the house and heat it instead of cooling it.
> Anything I could order thru the Internet?
Yep, a coolroom.
Posted by Leroy on December 28, 2007, 4:23 pm
keithcorn7@gmail.com wrote:
>
> I am mainly sitting around my desk and typing. I was thinking of
> building something around my desk to just keep me warm when sitting
> inside and doing my desk work and have an electrical heater blowing
> some heat at me. But the heat goes lost in the rather big rooms.
Buy a small tent like those used for camping. Pitch it inside the
room and put your desk, heater, and other stuff inside. Restricting
the volume to be heated and stopping air currents is the trick.
A couple of hundred watts of elec heat will make that tent
toasty.
Of course, you could do the same more cheaply. Pick a corner
of a room and make a smaller room with tarps or plastic sheeting.
For a frame, run overhead rope or wire, and tape the walls, ceiling
to it. Clear plastic will work OK and be less claustrophobic.
Posted by nicksanspam on December 28, 2007, 5:03 pm
>I am mainly sitting around my desk and typing. I was thinking of
>building something around my desk to just keep me warm when sitting
>inside and doing my desk work and have an electrical heater blowing
>some heat at me. But the heat goes lost in the rather big rooms.
You might put an electric heater with a thermostat under the desk
and make some sort of skirt that covers the hole for your knees...
Nick
Posted by the_blogologist on December 28, 2007, 5:32 pm
> Hi folks,
>
> I am living in an old house that was once build for many kids. They
> run around and stay warm. That's why my house has no doors on the
> inside. I isolated the windows with plastic and tape and put curtains
> up to keep the heat of my space heater to keep one room warm. It helps
> a bit but it still feels like in a not very well isolated log cabin.
Your house has no build in heat?? What keeps the pipes from freezing?
> I have a gas heater in the kitchen but the heat goes straight up to
> the ceiling and below, where I am sitting, it stays rather cold and
> gas is expensive too.
You might try to redirect the heat with a small fan on slow speed,
blowing and not pulling the heat so the fan doesn't melt.
> I am mainly sitting around my desk and typing. I was thinking of
> building something around my desk to just keep me warm when sitting
> inside and doing my desk work and have an electrical heater blowing
> some heat at me. But the heat goes lost in the rather big rooms.
>
> I have currently no car to transport lumber in my house and start to
> build myself a shed within one of my rooms. I am also not too handly
> with hammer and tools. I know, it is a shame, but this is how it is.
>
> Do you have any ideas? Anything I could order thru the Internet?
An electric blanket :-)
Unless you're really strapped for cash, I would NOT get a Sunbeam like
they sell at walmart. I tried two of them and both lost 80% to 90% of
their heat after one season. I still got the heated Sunbeam mattress
pad and you can barely tell it's on. I suspect the blanket failed
because one day it was it was bunched up too tight when it was on and
the heated pad seemed to fail after I put too much weight on one of the
elements with my knee. Or maybe it was just designed to fail after one
season :-/ I'm glad you started this thread, I'm going to try to take it
back to wally-world today.
If you think you might really have to depend on, get a good one.
At your desk have the blanket over your legs and under your feet, and
put the electric heater behind your back. Then at night transfer the
electric blanket to you bed.
> Sincerely,
> Keith
Btw, this was from Stormin Mormon about a month ago:
"During the one of the worst years of the horror of the Russian
Revolution, 1920, many people froze and starved to death, even in
their apartments in Moscow. It was a prime lesson on what can happen
here.
"In Moscow, oddly enough, the electricity was still on for most of the
winter, so one tactic was to make a small hut/igloo out of matresses
in the middle of your apartment and then run an electrical cord into
it with a light bulb on it the end to heat up your little hut."
I remember similar stories about Russians building a room in a room, but
I bet you don't want to make that much of a mess. Someone might suspect
cultist type activity ;-D
Posted by Stormin Mormon on December 28, 2007, 9:10 pm
Thanks, mate. Glad someone reads my revolving list of reposts.
I'm thinking the guy either needs a partition, for smaller section of room,
more heat, or creative heat sources. Some ideas posted thus far are really
excellent.
--
Christopher A. Young
.
.
Btw, this was from Stormin Mormon about a month ago:
"During the one of the worst years of the horror of the Russian
Revolution, 1920, many people froze and starved to death, even in
their apartments in Moscow. It was a prime lesson on what can happen
here.
"In Moscow, oddly enough, the electricity was still on for most of the
winter, so one tactic was to make a small hut/igloo out of matresses
in the middle of your apartment and then run an electrical cord into
it with a light bulb on it the end to heat up your little hut."
I remember similar stories about Russians building a room in a room, but
I bet you don't want to make that much of a mess. Someone might suspect
cultist type activity ;-D
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> I am living in an old house that was once build for many kids. They
> run around and stay warm. That's why my house has no doors on the
> inside. I isolated the windows with plastic and tape and put curtains
> up to keep the heat of my space heater to keep one room warm. It helps
> a bit but it still feels like in a not very well isolated log cabin.
> I have a gas heater in the kitchen but the heat goes straight up to
> the ceiling and below, where I am sitting, it stays rather cold and
> gas is expensive too.
> I am mainly sitting around my desk and typing. I was thinking of
> building something around my desk to just keep me warm when sitting
> inside and doing my desk work and have an electrical heater blowing
> some heat at me. But the heat goes lost in the rather big rooms.
> I have currently no car to transport lumber in my house and start to
> build myself a shed within one of my rooms. I am also not too handly
> with hammer and tools. I know, it is a shame, but this is how it is.
> Do you have any ideas?