How To Keep House Warm Without Electricity: 15 Easy Tips

An inexpensive, as close as non-toxic as I have found for collecting condensation for repurposing is nontoxic greenhouse sheathing and fish safe pond tarps.

If you use mylar for the inner lining, it will hold in your body heat keeping your structure heated with 98deg F body heat in addition to ventilating your other cooking heat and lighting Sourses and reflecting back all your little bit of light like a wall of mirrors, you could even grow stuff like sprouts to eat, wheat grass to hand crank juice.

Keep your opening on the south side or south window, it will let in the sun light and shine it all over and warm it up even more.

Mylar is space and fire blanket reflective inexpensive lifesaving material, it reflects and deflects all your body heat back on to you or other heat from you, and it will reflect light for growing rooms depending on your purpose.

and all of the above, I like the 100ft x 6 ft rolls of double sided mylar I got for about $50 doing thrifty shopping.
It will deflect the heat in the summer heat waves of 105 F for weeks on end and reflect the body heat in the winter for in the barn and grow room and my bedroom and maintain the ground water temp in the pump house when it is below freezing.

Two weeks of 10 below 0, two years ago with the power out, snowed in and my well pump house pump did not freeze lined with mylar, and neither did the chickens and barn animals or go hungry or me sitting cozy by the wood stove with a hot pot of soup made from preserving my garden and livestock.

There were many times I have had to survive and grow up with nothing more than a shirt on my back and not more than a dime in my pocket, I am more prepared and experienced now in my older age.

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I'm so impressed with your story, know-how, commitment to keeping your animals safe and sharing your expertise on how not to freeze when it's 10 below zero for two weeks.Thank you for posting. Where do you live? North Dakota? Montana?

In the PNW it's been snowing since yesterday with rain and snow predicted for the next 8 days. So... here's a nice video of


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Appalachian People How they Heated their Homes back in the day

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How to Build a Simple Emergency Brick Cook Stove

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Currently it is 27 degrees with a dusting of snow outside. It's been raining and snowing off and on since last Friday and predicted to continue - a solid 2 weeks of rain and snow with temps below freezing at night.

We put the snow studded tires on at the beginning of last week in preparation for the upcoming snow and ice on the roads.

Even though we got the wood split.. we still need to stack it closer to the cabin. However, there is a small electric thermostat standing heater that keeps the cabins temp around 55 degrees. Works great!

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There is a second vertical electric heater as back-up.
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Wood stove is the most desirable when in the cabin but keeping the temp at a constant temp makes it more comfortable when coming into in at various times throughout the day.

Another item we got for our daughter was a hooded fleece robe she wears when since we haven't been using the heat in the house 90% of the time. With the recent snow the propane fireplace in the living room is used sparingly when the family is up.

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^^^^^ Wet firewood is a producer of toxins(that you will absorb directly into your body, results vary on which cancer you will get first) this pollution is way worse then any college sweater sheepster; put on a hat dress in layers and spend the weekend in Phoenix, AZ... warmer yes, plenty of toxins in the air everywhere.

I have solar and battery backup. I wont be able to run everything but I have enough connected to my critical loads panel

Im opening some warming houses in Germany for people who are extra good at not spending money

OP is talking about if the electric and gas supply chains go down.

Like some sort of fire?
Inside?
This is baffling technology.
It will lead to disaster.

Idiots like you will be some of the first to die

Democrats banned woodstoves because they think it's killing the planet.

And get your flue cleaned regularly. My wood burner will heat 3000sqft of space and you can cook on the tops of most.

Seal and then hang blankets over the windows

Then you only have to make sure to keep up with the weekly Viagra deliveries.

how to keep your house warm ?
go sit in your car.. lmao

Mass rocket heater would keep most of the smoke to a minimal. It also uses and 1/8th to a 1/4 less wood than a wood stove does

Yes, I live in an old house with rooms and doors. We haven't remodeled to the open concept plan. I never much liked it because I think people need privacy.

There were more doors up at one point in this house than there are now. If I had the time and money, I would reinstall them.

We do save money by doing our own form of zone heating. We keep the furnace low (it's not on yet) and we have built-in heating/cooling units in two of the most-used rooms downstairs. So far, we have just had to turn on the units for the cold. (I know the thread is about doing without electricity, but this is related.)

We don't have central air conditioning.

In many places they made the regulations so strict you can’t put one in new construction.

Where I live in farming country you can burn off your weeds, brush, trash, and whatever, but the state comes down on you hard if you burn wood in a stove inside. This is really stupid since I’m a carpenter and have lots of scrap that I can burn outside in a fire ring but can’t put it in a stove to heat my workshop.

Liberal logic is an oxymoron.

And, oh my God! Don’t tell anyone you have a room for painting.

Lots of good ideas to keep warm when the power goes out...

What about your water pipes freezing???

Anyway to heat them without electricity. Otherwise, when the power comes on; you'd have frozen water pipes or even ruptured water pipes. Now your contending with a flood...

Clay pots might work, but there is a fire hazard...

Lots of good ideas in here.