How to warm a room with a candle? Make your own candle heater!

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Just recently I had a very brilliant idea. There are a lot of heating devices in stores: yes, they are good, you can’t say anything, but even for a simple electric model the price is sometimes too high. Therefore, we take everything that comes to hand and start making things!

In this article we will tell you how to warm up an entire room with just a small candle! Sit back and let the excursion into the world of needlework begin!

Candle heater - fiction or reality?

Let’s immediately dispel the fact that making such equipment is a meaningless and unnecessary undertaking for the common man. Not at all! If even a Californian inventor came up with such a thing as a “candle heater,” then why not repeat such a thing after him? In addition, the fire is really enough to get heat into the room.

A candle stove is quite strange in design, but, as the American inventor claims, it will completely save you in a critical situation (for example, when the lights go out). But in winter, don’t even hope that a heater made from ceramic pots will somehow save you. Yes, yes, you didn’t imagine it – exactly from the pots!

In appearance, a candle room heater resembles an inverted flower pot with a candle underneath. The main system for creating heat is hidden inside the pot.

There is not just one pot in the design, there are several of them at once. Traditionally, a clay pot heater combines 3 “hoods” of different sizes, connected with a bunch of washers and a bolt. Holes in the bottom of clay utensils have long been invented, so there is no need to drill anything.

This “stray” even has a special name - Quad-Core and works on the principle of “luring” heat from a candle into a ceramic trap. You, of course, ask: “Why?” We'll tell you further.

How does a pot and candle heater work?

The flame source itself, due to its tiny size, produces very little heat. The whole problem is that the heat rises and simply dissolves in the abyss of the room’s atmosphere, without particularly heating it.

You may be surprised, but the thermal energy reserve of an ordinary wax candle is enough to create full-fledged heating. This is because only a small part of the energy is spent on creating a beam of light, and the rest is a thermal charge. This is exactly what we need.

A heater made of a candle and ceramic pots in the form of a multi-level cap collects all the thermal energy and accumulates it, heating its walls (the central pot is especially hot). Heat is then transferred from one “radiator” to another, warming nearby objects and air. The potted “reservoirs” also catch all the soot from the wick, so everything around is clean and safe – an ideal indoor solution.

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How to make a heater from clay pots with your own hands

We’ll go through everything point by point so that there are no problems later.

Accessories

To exactly replicate a candle stove, as is done in America, you will need:

• 3 baked clay pots. They should all be of different diameters so that one is hidden under the other (according to the “matryoshka” pattern).
• Metal rod with thread.
• Nuts and washers (it’s impossible to count the exact number, take according to the principle “more is better”).

How to make a candle warmer

After we went to the store for everything we needed, we began to work:

1. Using a drill, make a hole in the bottom of each pot for a metal rod (if the pot already has a hole, skip this step);
2. We pass the largest clay vessel through the thread and fasten it on top with a nut;
3. We place several washers inside;
4. We connect the second and third pots in the same way;
5. We place the upper knob above the candle. The flame should be directly under our metal tube.

To create the base, you can go in several ways: just take 2 bricks or come up with something yourself. For example, you can make a platform like this (a lot of equipment will be useful, which may not exist):

• flat metal corners (used for window frames);
• durable cord or harness;
• welding machine and drill.

Base assembly

Let's work with welding: weld the corners at 120 degrees relative to each other. The edges should be positioned like this: large ones at the top, small ones on the inside. We make small holes on top of the large ones.

We insert a cord or harness into the resulting slots so that a triangle is formed. We install a candle stove on the resulting platform.

Now all that remains is to find a larger candle and start testing an improvised heating system. A DIY candle heater will brighten up winter evenings and add additional coziness to the room. And all you need is a couple of pots and a candle.