hello everybody and today's video I'm going to do something a little bit different
um I'm going to show everybody how to make a tea light uh heater using tea lights and a couple of
terracotta pots one bigger than the other so I'll just go through the uh items there
we started off with a Pizza tray we've got an assortment of trays sorry uh tins there
as you can see and in this video I'm going to use the big or the bigger baked bean tins to
uh carry out this project with I'm just showing you some smaller tins there some cat food tins
um and this is just a preference uh use like the smaller tea light candles for the smaller with the
smaller tins and the bigger tea light tea lights with the the bigger tins those big bean tins
um so yeah I'm using the bigger tea lights and they should last up to about eight hours and
these smaller ones or the standard ones which is probably everybody's familiar with they
last well they should last up to four hours usually familiar they're about three hours
um I think it's the same with those bigger ones they're supposed to go for eight hours but
um I don't get that far so uh got those two terracotta pots there as you can see so one's
like a ran about seven inches on the top and the other one's about nine inches and uh you
can obviously pick these up quite easily either eBay or your local Garden Center or whatever
so um you can see like we've got the uh tins arranged on top of the piece of tray metal Pizza
tray you want to go careful with all this because obviously you're playing with fire or you're using
fire in the form of the candles and you don't want things to overheat so make sure obviously follow
safety standards and don't keep it away from things and obviously put it on heat resistance
um services and uh that should be able to keep it supervised as well always best to supervise
these things you know you don't want to leave it Go in if there's nobody about
these do actually get quite hot as well so um don't go burning yourself and all
that type of thing anyway so you know like common sense and standard safety procedures
um and that's about it anyway there's probably you know a lot of people say you're saving money
um using these heaters but that might be a bit of a myth and already it's all dependent on dependent
on uh how cheap you can get the candles for um and actually if you eat like you're using four
here the the bigger ones are about 20p each and the smaller ones about 10 Peach so that's 10 pence
in UK money anyway um you see they just put a tin on top of the um the inner pot there that's just
like to keep the heat in between you know you you like that lighting the candles there and the Heat
you you want to situate the candles so the heat um is is rising up into the cavity and the cavity
will be there once we put that second pot on so once we put
the second pot over the top once we've lit those candles
um that'll create our cavity and they'll heat the cavity and um give you a heater that radiates heat
throughout the room and it is quite good I was quite impressed um I'll probably keep the chill
off and going back to like the economy of these things I'm not sure if you're going to be saving
that much money but they forecast blackouts here in the UK so they could be handy for that
so for emergencies and I say with the economy if if you're even using the small tea lights
so you're using four at a time so that's 40p for every three hours I can actually put the
heating on here for an hour and that kind of heats the the house up all day long and even
with the current gas price Rises um it's still relatively inexpensive in relation
to the tea light so unless you can get the tea lights uh cheap price then you're not really
going to be saving any money and like I say it will be good for if you have a power cut
but obviously you can keep them you can keep the keep the chill off in the UK at the moment
it's not that cold at the moment so you don't really need too much heat but I have used them on
occasion along with the gas central heating I've got here as well but like I say it's quite mild
over here at present but uh it'll start getting cold January February although the last few years
we've had quite mold Winters so anyway I hope this helps out for those that may want something
like this if we do get some blackouts during the winter months thanks for watching and see you soon