[vyper]

Alright, so yesterday the heating in my house went arse up. Now, I didn't notice it much until this morning when I realized many of my extremities were numb, and so I'm desperately thinking of inventive and unique ways to warm myself up....


Do your worst.  

[Swamp_Thing]

Ask your father/brother/neighbour to give you a wee bit of a spanking. That should keep your arse red hot!!

[vyper]

Not quite what I was hoping for...

[Kosh]

Fire is your friend........

[vyper]

[q]Fire is your friend........[/q]

Except it'd burn ma house down.

Edit: Added quote to make sense

[aldo_14]

Stay in bed.

Thought that was obvious, really.........

[WMCoolmon]

Attach your arse to a post. Then, considering the time-warp factor of the forums, when you post that post your arse will travel back in time to before the heating broke, thus heating up; however, because you attached your arse to the post in the present, it will exist in the past and the present simultaneously. The energy will travel to the rest of your body, and you'll have a foolproof way to keep warm, no matter where you are.

If you set your system clock right, you can even send something to when the sun and earth were still forming. Good for fixing bacon and hot dogs, so long as no organic material is left behind.

[vyper]

Originally posted by WMCoolmon
Attach your arse to a post. Then, considering the time-warp factor of the forums, when you post that post your arse will travel back in time to before the heating broke, thus heating up; however, because you attached your arse to the post in the present, it will exist in the past and the present simultaneously. The energy will travel to the rest of your body, and you'll have a foolproof way to keep warm, no matter where you are.

If you set your system clock right, you can even send something to when the sun and earth were still forming. Good for fixing bacon and hot dogs, so long as no organic material is left behind.

Does my bum look big in this post?

[Kosh]

Originally posted by vyper
[q]Fire is your friend........[/q]

Except it'd burn ma house down.

Edit: Added quote to make sense

But you wouldn't be cold.

[Knight Templar]

Find a lady. Or do pushups. Or combine the two.

[Liberator]

How much are you willing to spend?

$30 USD solution
I use a single oil-filled electric radiator from Lakewood to heat my trailer.  It doesn't do a whole lot if the temp goes very far below freezing, but that's because this trailer is old and not very airtight, in a fairly tight apartment or house it should do fine for a room or two.

$75-150 USD solutions
If you want some serious heat, get a propane cylinder(filled of course) and one of those Redyheaters that you see on the sidelines of NFL games.  Scratch that, get one that a contractor would use, anything that says 100,000 BTU on it.  A single 20lb cylinder should operate it for a couple of days anyway.  They also make passive radiant type burners but they are less effiecient, usually burning up a cylinder in a few hours.

You could also go with the old standby, kerosene.  A good kerosene heater should go for around $150-200 USD and burn for 10-12 hours on a full tank.  Just make sure you don't damage the wick too much trying to figure out how to light it.  Kerosene kind of stinks too.


Bottom basement, you should be able to pick up a fan-forced electric for $20-30, with quartz elements(far more effiecent) for $45-60 USD.

Also, call you're landlord and make sure he knows the heats out.

[Knight Templar]

Originally posted by Liberator
All that jazz

Well, that's one way not to score.

[Black Wolf]

Go buy a lot of toasters and turn them all on simultaneously.

[aldo_14]

Take the fan off your computer.

[Bobboau]

get a space heater or two, that's what i did before getting my 24,000 BTU natural gas heater

[Sandwich]

Seriously?

Newspapers are excellent insulators - stuff them in an over-sized pair of shoes, spread them over your lap when you're sitting down, etc.

Layers are your friends. Try to wear multiple layers of clothing, preferably with at least one of those layers being long-john-like - something that will trap pockets of air (i.e. a sweater or other knitted piece of clothing, not a t-shirt).

Wear a scarf around your neck - very effective.

Most body heat escapes from the head, hands, and feet, so gloves if you got 'em, woollen hat, and warm socks/slippers.

Finally, if it's so cold wherever you are that you need to take measures to keep warm when the heating dies, why the heck don't you already know these things as a matter of course??

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Sandwich

Finally, if it's so cold wherever you are that you need to take measures to keep warm when the heating dies, why the heck don't you already know these things as a matter of course??

Because the heating doesn't die very often?

[vyper]

I live in Scotland guys, not the back of beyond - my central heating is only dies once on a blue moon.

Since the engineer comes out this afternoon, I'll survive.

[Tiara]

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[aldo_14]

Originally posted by vyper
I live in Scotland guys, not the back of beyond - my central heating is only dies once on a blue moon.

Since the engineer comes out this afternoon, I'll survive.

It's not even cold today anyways, it's about 6 degrees.  Bloody roasty-toasty, in fact.