a little winter heating advice please

[edward.21]

You're absolutely right scoob my mind was on my car emissions:oops:but the principal remains the same.

[Delightful]

It is really easy to cook a stew in a thermos flask, I do it whenever I go hiking in cold weather. 1L flask of boiling hot water, pour 200ml out for a coffee early on and fill the flask up with lentils, pasta, diced veg etc stored in a sandwich bag or similar and in 2-3 hours you have a delicious hot stew. Small diced meat cooks well too. If your flask isn't very good and you don't want to buy a new one then wrap it in a towel or blanket and even hug it like a hot water bottle.

Choose one room to live in so that you only need heat a small area, you could even reduce the size to heat by using a tent as suggested or using spring loaded curtain poles and curtains/blankets to section off part of a room. Cover all windows and draft sources with blankets. Erect a sort of tent around your sleeping area, even if it's just using sheets and chairs like a kid it makes it much easier to sleep and more comfortable.

One year during university I was living in the attic of a Victorian building without heating, insulation or double glazing. It was ~2C all winter (aside from less than once a week when I could afford to run a small electric heater for a few hours which got it up to 12C) and those were the big tips that got me through.

[blue3]

thanks guys great help as always! i think moving into my spare/music room which is tiny could be a good idea as the master is huge by comparison. i think though expensive for me maybe some sort of gas heater. still being a bit of extreme/look into the futur prepper i do worry that some point gas may run out. whilst not expecting it soon i'd like to know what to do if and when! like the flask idea D.

[blue3]

oh just another thing perhaps you guys could help me on is lighting. looked at a wind up lantern. in cotsworld pretty tacky for 30£! any cheap ones about? any of my welsh preppers know bailey's surplus? opinions? thanks

[nickdutch]

oh just another thing perhaps you guys could help me on is lighting. looked at a wind up lantern. in cotsworld pretty tacky for 30£! any cheap ones about? any of my welsh preppers know bailey's surplus? opinions? thanks

The ones made by Trevor B. and Freeplay last a damned long time. So they are worth looking into anyway.

[blue3]

thanks nick will look at those

[tigs]

in december i bought two dynamo led lanterns from coopers of stortford for £19:99 buy one get one free they are not the brightest on the market but at that price they are value for money , im thinking of getting a few more of them.

http://www.coopersofstortford.co.uk/coo ... dst07625i/

[blue3]

thanks tigs will look at those. dim they might be but brighter than sitting in the dark!

[tigs]

they are not dim about equivalent to 100 candle on the highest setting, just not the brightist they can go up to 500 candles but the cost about £60 each

[lasttruebreed]

while there on a bogof it's well worth the money but £20 for one is a bit steep. I picked up a wind up radio/torch/mobile charger (not smart phones) on amazon for the same price. Been using it for about 2 years without any issue. I don't have the link to hand but if anyone is interested I'll post the link next time I'm at my pc.