Terracotta Candle Heater

Radiant terracotta pot heat.

Terracotta candle heater.

It is also much easier to construct than using cans. Especially seeing as this may be something you do during a power cut when light might be an issue. Kimberley mok is a former architect who covered architecture and the arts for treehugger since 2007. Heating with candles is a feasible eco friendly way to keep warm when you know how to radiate the heat across the room.

So the idea is to use stacked terracotta pots and a couple of candles to generate enough heat to warm a room. Use this easy to construct terracotta pot heater to supplement your home heating source or to have on hand in case of emergency. With an engineering background it s hard to see how the math can work out on a project like this. A couple of flower pots and candles can easily be transformed into a heating source.

Diy candle powered. Natural candle powered terracotta heater will warm you for cheap. Use this easy diy design to create radiant heat from a pillar candle and terracotta pot. 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.

Remember how easy it is to cut yourself on a sharp tin edge.