how do u keep warm if your heating's gone out?

Question

gas company are not coming to monday, and i have a young daughter

Answer 1

Get an electric heater and keep the doors closed. When sitting down, get under a blanket with a hot waterbottle. Over the weekend, use this as an opportunity to get out - say to the swimming pool, cinema, adverture playground etc to get the good of heat in other places. If it's dry and sunny go for a goog long walk to get the blood circulating and it will soon warm you up.

Answer 2

There are several ways to keep warm without heat.
Chief among these is body heat.

1. To gain the most effective insulation use a sleeping bag or a well made bed with several layers of quilts, blankets and even towels. Then strip and climb under the covers. Most modern clothing breaths and is absorbent because of a high cotton content. Absorbent clothing absorbs sweat and moisture from your skin, cooling off your body. The less absorbent layers of most sheets and blankets will help you to lose less moisture and less heat. The silky, polyester fill lining of your sleeping bag will absorb even less.

2. If you can't sleep or snuggle up naked, consider bundling up.
Wear a thin cotton shirt and undergarments underneath so that it will quickly become filled with sweat. Use polyester fleece or wool layers over top to retain heat but fail to pull moisture from the cotton undergarments. Wear two layers of socks and top off with a pair of comfortable shoes. Wear a toboggan and then wrap a scarf around your neck.

3. If your heat is out and your home drops below the outside ambient temperature because of its insulation properties, open your shades and curtains in the day time and close them at night. Allow solar power to provide you a few extra degrees of temperature.

4. If you have a door on your kitchen, cook a turkey and some biscuits and move your sleeping bag to this room. Make sure you have a functional carbon monoxide detector in the room, and then use towels to insulate under the doors.

5. Go out and buy the oil radiator based space heaters. Most sell for between 20 and 50 dollars, and economically speaking are often cheaper than gas or forced air heat.

Good luck

Answer 3

Well from your pic, it looks like you have kids. If you can you might turn on the oven for periods at a time and gate off the kitchen. You might get a portable heater from Walmart. You could try blankets but if you have really small children like babies, don't do this since there was a story in the news about a baby suffocating when the parents were just trying to keep it warm. If you do have small children, you should get that heat fixed asap and go to a hotel/motel until it's done.
Good luck ~ stay warm :)

Answer 4

Lots of thin layers are better than one thick one. You can also put screwed up newspaper under doors and around windows that let the heat out. Keep the curtains shut too.

Something like an oil filed radiator or a plug in electric radiator will help keep things warm: http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/4150334/Trail/C$cip%3D42001.Kitchen+and+laundry%3EC$cip%3D42016.Heaters+and+coolers.htm

Avoid fan heaters - they are very costly to run. Make sure that your daughter wears socks to bed and use lots of extra blankets.

Drink lots of hot drinks, and be careful when bathing or changing - stay clothed as much as possible.

Answer 5

Put loads of clothes on and sit with a blanket over you. Most heat escapes therough the top of your head so cover that, plus your hands and feet.

Well tell them it's an emergency because you have a small child. My token meter broke and I told them I had a baby and they came out straight away. I think you'll have to ask to borrow an electric heater or stay with somebody else.

Answer 6

don't huddle up with a blanket stick an exercise tape on and get moving, make your own heat. If your siting on your a rse huddled up you will be colder. Do the housework, a good work out with the vacuum cleaner (no filth intended) will keep you warm.

Answer 7

A hat will keep the body heat from going out the top of your head, and layer your clothing, cotton, thicker cotton, then wool. Gloves for the hands, and some nice wool socks. Then you do the hokey-pokey and you turn yourself around.

Answer 8

You can get a space heater, but I'm assuming that's not an economics problem because you're talking on the internet...
Wear lots of layers, crawl under blankets, huddle for warmth.

Answer 9

If it's gas heating, use electric heaters. If it's electric storage etc, and you have no mains gas, you can get bottled gas and heaters. If you can't afford these things, use clothes and bedding. If you can't afford clothes and bedding, eat what little food you have and exercise (as you have no clothes and bedding, several forms of exercise may suggest themselves).

Answer 10

put on a hat , apparently you lose heat through your head, Hot water bottle fill it up with hot water.and yes go to bed , keep warm that way. put a scarf on. you put on layers of clothing on. Try to keep ONE room warm if possible it doesnt matter about the rest of the house unless you have children.......... keep windows shut, curtains shut etc