Terracotta Candle Heater

Use this easy diy design to create radiant heat from a pillar candle and terracotta pot.

Terracotta candle heater.

Especially seeing as this may be something you do during a power cut when light might be an issue. A couple of flower pots and candles can easily be transformed into a heating source. Remember how easy it is to cut yourself on a sharp tin edge. So the idea is to use stacked terracotta pots and a couple of candles to generate enough heat to warm a room.

Heating with candles is a feasible eco friendly way to keep warm when you know how to radiate the heat across the room. Diy candle powered. With an engineering background it s hard to see how the math can work out on a project like this. The idea is a simple one terracotta heats up slowly and retains the heat quite well so if you take three or two terracotta pots and put them one inside the other with space for air to move in between then the terracotta absorbs the heat from one single candle.

Metal cans heat very quickly but once the candles have burnt out the cans cool very quickly. Terracotta retains heat for a good while longer. Radiant terracotta pot heat. Kimberley mok is a former architect who covered architecture and the arts for treehugger since 2007.

Natural candle powered terracotta heater will warm you for cheap.