Keep Your Home Warm When the Heater Won't

When you live in a cold area, you may rely on your heater to warm your home to a comfortable temperature. However, there is always a possibility of something happening with your heater. When you find the heater won’t heat your home, the first thing you should do is call an HVAC company.

While you wait for someone to come out and fix your heater's issues, you need to keep the house warm for your family. Learn about some ways you can increase the temperature in the part of your home where your family will spend the most time.

Dress in Layers to Warm Yourself

To start, have everyone dress in layers. Break out the beanies and gloves as well. Once everyone is dressed for cold temperatures, you will have an easier time keeping everyone warm. Layering clothes works better than wearing a thick winter coat because the layers trap your body heat between them, which keeps the heat against your skin and helps you stay warmer.

Drink Coffee to Warm Yourself

Drinking coffee at any temperature can help you stay warm — because of the caffeine — but drinking coffee hot will help you feel warmer mentally as well. The caffeine will increase your metabolism, and this can help you increase your core temperature.

Use Heating Pads and Electric Blankets to Warm Yourself

Heating pads can be used for more than just taking away aches and pains; they can also keep you warm. In addition, spread electric blankets out and try to keep everyone warm with them. You can lie another blanket on top of the electric blanket. Once the regular blanket is warm, give the warm blanket to someone else to cover with.

Use the Dryer to Warm Your Home

Use an electric dryer to heat the inside of your home, but don’t use a gas dryer because of the carbon monoxide risks.

To use your dryer, split the aluminum hose in two and fasten the vent section to a nearby wall. Take a leg of panty hose and put it on the end of the hose. Leave the toe section at the end uncut. The hot air will blow in the house to warm the house up and the hose will catch and hold onto the lint.

Use Hot Water Bottles to Warm Yourself

The great thing about hot water bottles is they retain their heat for hours. Heat up as many hot water bottles as you have and pass them out to everyone to use for warmth.

Use Your Electric Oven to Warm Your Home

Bake some foods in the oven on high temperatures that take a long time to cook. Leave the door cracked open after and eat the food while it is still hot to warm your core.

However, if you have a gas oven, leaving the door open can lead to carbon monoxide poisoning. But you can still use the gas oven to bake a hot meal. The gas oven will still generate some heat and you'll have hot food to eat.

Sleep in a Tent to Warm Yourself

When bedtime comes, spread out your warmest sleeping bags in the tent to lie on and use the rest to cover up with. The tent will help hold in the warmth from body heat and the sleeping bags will lock in individual body heat, so everyone will be warm while they sleep.

Put the younger kids in the middle of everyone, as well as very thin people who struggle to stay warm.

If you have a broken heater, contact Comfort Solutions . We will set you up with the closest appointment possible.