Indoor camping stove?

[Frnc]

Hi

Not yet but I'm looking to move to a Sigenergy type setup with Sigenstor so should keep working when the grid is down too

But yes, currently I'm heating with a gas boiler which only uses minimal electricity.

Would a simple camping stove be good enough indoors for say a week?

Thanks

You can use a camping gas stove, either backpacking style or bistro style to cook and boil water indoors. Not to heat the house. Make sure to have ventilation to avoid CO poisoning and don't set the house on fire. Bistro style cartridges are cheaper. Backpacking style obviously more portable. You ideally want pots designed for the job. You can't put a big steel pan on a tiny backpacking stove, it would be extremely dangerous.

If you want to heat the house with gas you need an industrial type heater and a big gas container that's refillable.

May I ask what you'd recommend to heat the house?

Though tbf I will also be keeping a wood burning stove. I may be decarbonising however I figure that indoor air pollution isn't that big a deal if you're only using the wood burning stove around Xmas, or other festivals

https://appliances.calor.co.uk/home-ess ... aters.html
or similar

[Frnc]

Personally my plan if there's no electricity or gas is to wear lots of warm clothing.

[pseudonym]

May I ask what you'd recommend to heat the house?

Don't.

Heat individual rooms that have the highest foot traffic.

[ForgeCorvus]

May I ask what you'd recommend to heat the house?

Don't.

Heat individual rooms that have the highest foot traffic.

This, and heat the person.

A blanket is good, add a hot water bottle to make it great

[anonym0us]

You can use a camping gas stove, either backpacking style or bistro style to cook and boil water indoors. Not to heat the house. Make sure to have ventilation to avoid CO poisoning and don't set the house on fire. Bistro style cartridges are cheaper. Backpacking style obviously more portable. You ideally want pots designed for the job. You can't put a big steel pan on a tiny backpacking stove, it would be extremely dangerous.

If you want to heat the house with gas you need an industrial type heater and a big gas container that's refillable.

May I ask what you'd recommend to heat the house?

Though tbf I will also be keeping a wood burning stove. I may be decarbonising however I figure that indoor air pollution isn't that big a deal if you're only using the wood burning stove around Xmas, or other festivals

https://appliances.calor.co.uk/home-ess ... aters.html
or similar

I see. If I'm gonna get a wood burning stove, I guess I wouldn't need that?

Most of the time I'll be using electricity but if there's a power cut I'd want to conserve electric power

[PPrep]

To provide sufficient electricity to power an electric cooker or indoor heating would need a relatively large and expensive solar setup. Better to consider a gas camping stove, perhaps. Depending on how much you cook and how much tea you drink,
a few small gas cylinders should easily last a week. A 190g cylinder of butane lasts me about 5 days when camping.

Lots of warm clothing and a hot water bottle as suggested above are good ideas.

If confined to the house for any reason, an suitable exercise routine will help to keep one warm and is good for health.

Whole - house heating is probably out of reach for most people without power. Bio - ethenol, such as that used in fake fireplaces burns relatively cleanly, and I made a stove to suit for local heating. It uses quite a lot of fuel though, but the idea may be worth considering. A combination of lit candles under an arrangement of earthenware flower pots could be considered. There are many videos on Youtube on these topics.

I've experimented with home made "rocket" stoves, but they are twig - burners and can't be used indoors (but possibly in an empty open fireplace, venting up the chimney if you have one)? I also have a Kelly kettle for water heating. These are very efficient.

Ventilation is required, and relevant safety precautions need to be taken.

[Frnc]

May I ask what you'd recommend to heat the house?

Though tbf I will also be keeping a wood burning stove. I may be decarbonising however I figure that indoor air pollution isn't that big a deal if you're only using the wood burning stove around Xmas, or other festivals

https://appliances.calor.co.uk/home-ess ... aters.html
or similar

I see. If I'm gonna get a wood burning stove, I guess I wouldn't need that?

Most of the time I'll be using electricity but if there's a power cut I'd want to conserve electric power

I don't know anything about wood burning stoves being used for heating, sorry. Both my chimney stacks were removed and slated over, so it's a no-go for me now.

[Frnc]

sorry, posted same post twice.

[anonym0us]

Personally my plan if there's no electricity or gas is to wear lots of warm clothing.

Lol I guess but you can only go so far with that

[anonym0us]

To provide sufficient electricity to power an electric cooker or indoor heating would need a relatively large and expensive solar setup. Better to consider a gas camping stove, perhaps. Depending on how much you cook and how much tea you drink,
a few small gas cylinders should easily last a week. A 190g cylinder of butane lasts me about 5 days when camping.

Lots of warm clothing and a hot water bottle as suggested above are good ideas.

If confined to the house for any reason, an suitable exercise routine will help to keep one warm and is good for health.

Whole - house heating is probably out of reach for most people without power. Bio - ethenol, such as that used in fake fireplaces burns relatively cleanly, and I made a stove to suit for local heating. It uses quite a lot of fuel though, but the idea may be worth considering. A combination of lit candles under an arrangement of earthenware flower pots could be considered. There are many videos on Youtube on these topics.

I've experimented with home made "rocket" stoves, but they are twig - burners and can't be used indoors (but possibly in an empty open fireplace, venting up the chimney if you have one)? I also have a Kelly kettle for water heating. These are very efficient.

Ventilation is required, and relevant safety precautions need to be taken.

Thanks. Yup. I'd need quite a lot of solar (well, more batteries) to have enough electricity for heating but in the event of a power cut I'd like to preserve that energy. Whilst it might be cleaner to use electric for heating, less clean sources of energy are a way to still have heating and preserve power.

Though as others have said, electric blankets would potentially help in a power cut too

I guess a wood burning stove could at least heat the living room which would provide warmth there too. Though yes that's a fair point RE: ethanol

I'll have a look into :

- Kelly kettle
- Camping stove

Would this be a good enough camping stove?

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