(How to heat a small room without setting said) Room On Fire

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We only have one heat source in our house, a small gas fireplace in the living room. This makes our living room pretty toasty, but somehow the heat never reaches any of the other rooms in the house. Those space heater things seem a bit dangerous and kind of ugly. We don't need much heat as the weather here is pretty mild, but it's a bit chilly in the mornings. What are our alternatives?

― adaml (adaml), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:12 (twenty-three years ago)

blankets. cuddles. candles afloat in coffee cans half-full of water.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:16 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm talking technology, ya goddamn hippy! ;)

― adaml (adaml), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:18 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.zibro.com/UK/Zibrokamin/Laser.htm

we got one of these a few years ago. it's actually a paraffin heater, but with this fancy fuel-injector arrangement instead of a smelly wick. it was very expensive to buy, but is very cheap to run. It works very well.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:18 (twenty-three years ago)

If cuddling isn't technology then I say fuck the 21st century.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Wanna cyber(cuddle)?

― adaml (adaml), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Throwback!

― adaml (adaml), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:21 (twenty-three years ago)

get some of those little handwarmer/chemical heat things.

and shove them into your pants.

"ha HA! Now is it my pants which are feeling the warmth!"

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:40 (twenty-three years ago)

According to consumer reports cuddling actually costs you more in the long run.

Whatever you do, don't get a kerosene heater.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:56 (twenty-three years ago)

hot sex

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Get an old IBM AT or Apple 2E and just plug the fucker in and let it run.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:59 (twenty-three years ago)

― Dale the Titled (cprek), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:59 (twenty-three years ago)

group sex

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 24 October 2003 17:01 (twenty-three years ago)

a friend of mine has one these and it works very well. I think it's filled with oil or something (no odor and safe)

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:lr2Mg973w4MC:www.fonhink.com/images/heater.jpg

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Friday, 24 October 2003 17:01 (twenty-three years ago)

those oil things work well, we used one in an old office. you could also put a fan near the doorway and blow the hot air from the living room into your kitchen and pray it gets into your bedroom. Also, get a carpet.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Friday, 24 October 2003 17:09 (twenty-three years ago)

yes, oil is important when you're having group sex in your office

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 24 October 2003 17:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Also, get a carpet.

carpet nazi! ;P

― adaml (adaml), Friday, 24 October 2003 17:24 (twenty-three years ago)

we have an oil filled radiator as well. (de'longi "dragon" model") it heats up the room really well, but it costs a fucking fortune in electricity.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 24 October 2003 18:14 (twenty-three years ago)

What is wrong with a space heater? Are they actually dangerous? I have never had a problem at all. Last year, there was no heat in my building. At all. You could see your breath indoors. I eventually put in several space heaters but they weren't large ones so I still had to put on tons of clothing in order not to get frostbite :(

But now I have one big one that I kept in the living room for that time space between when it actually gets cold and when they actually turn on the heat and that worked nicely and it isn't TOOO ugly.

Electricity bills are a fuck though.

― Allyzay, Friday, 24 October 2003 18:27 (twenty-three years ago)

move to Chad.

― Skottie, Friday, 24 October 2003 19:01 (twenty-three years ago)

where do you live again?
Cuz I know it's not as cold as it is here.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 24 October 2003 19:05 (twenty-three years ago)

I live here, Horace (and sometimes, it actually DOES look like this).

http://www.mountainlight.com/AA-images/AA0865_480.jpg

― adaml (adaml), Friday, 24 October 2003 19:47 (twenty-three years ago)

(kinda)

― adaml (adaml), Friday, 24 October 2003 19:47 (twenty-three years ago)

I've never lived in S.F., but I have spent months there in aggregate. My feeling about it is that it's ALWAYS cold. And of course damp. Except in the Marina, but that just turns to goo when the quakes come. You're going to have to go electric for safety and comfort.

― Skottie, Friday, 24 October 2003 19:50 (twenty-three years ago)

It's in the 90s today!

― adaml (adaml), Friday, 24 October 2003 19:50 (twenty-three years ago)

(but still cold in the mornings)

― adaml (adaml), Friday, 24 October 2003 19:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Heaven is cold in the mornings?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 24 October 2003 20:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Freezing, and the "big man" charges up the ass for DSL.

― adaml (adaml), Friday, 24 October 2003 20:01 (twenty-three years ago)

or is that Narnia?

Anway, it's much easier to heat a small room than the top two floors of a drafty old three storey house with no storm windows that you're already paying waaay too much rent for anyway and all of sudden you're hit with 300 heating bills and it's NOT EVEN tolerably warm in there!
Went through this last winter. Minus 40 (same in C and F) for like 6 weeks. This winter, one room bachelor suite. hahahahahahahaha.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 24 October 2003 20:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Based on that picture, Adam is Lando Calrizzian!

― rob geary (rgeary), Saturday, 25 October 2003 07:04 (twenty-three years ago)

SF suddenly became the coolest place in the universe!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 25 October 2003 13:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Try saying that after he sells you out to Lord Vader and claims he "had no choice!"

― rob geary (rgeary), Saturday, 25 October 2003 15:49 (twenty-three years ago)

dammit! stole my joke. Still, a cloud-car-based transport system might save on parking costs, if a bit troublesome in traffic.

http://www.30doradus.org/tools/starships/ccity2.jpg

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Saturday, 25 October 2003 16:28 (twenty-three years ago)

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