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Favorite Comment: Fixer Teg says, “No… cant you see, this is a post modern expression of the evolution of indoor heating. It hearkens back to a simpler time. Here the stove represents the hearth of days past, where the family would gather to both heat their houses, and cook. the fan represents the advent of forced air heating in the early 19th century. Why can no one ever see and appreciate these modern art installations?”
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Hey, that’s how we heat our house during a power outage! :>0
They better be careful – if they were sauteeing mushrooms and spilled any, the shiitake would really hit the – ok, ok, it was stretch….
They could always point the fan under the sink as well to get hot water while they’re at it……..
With an electric oven?
And electric fan?
that fan is pointing towards the oven… and how do you use an electric oven during a power outage?
UPS?
That would be the way to do it. Blow cool air in to force the warm air out.
I’m not sure about the idea because i have to say, i’m not a fan.
Neither am I. At first I thought it was kinda hot, but after further thought, it really blows.
lol WIN you guys
Even the power outlets are messed up.
wow – good observation! Outlets courtesy of Darwin Electric contractors.
me tot that was the kludge…
Hate to say it, but I’ve resorted to that before. I rented a condo that had a heat pump with no emergency heat. ( and this is in Ohio )
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Life lesson: using the oven as a heater= $500 electric bill.
It’s good to know I’m not the only one doing something like this when the heat in the house goes out. The only difference: I used a box fan. It moves more air.
Me too, I’ve done this and used a box fan when the furnace has broken. Sucks, but it keeps the icicles away!
Welcome to Florida
Heh. I’m in Florida, and this exactly what my mother told me to do when I called her and started complaining about how cold it was in the house.
“Just turn the oven on and get a fan!”
I’ve done this a couple times before. Over here we heat with natural gas, so if the furnace or boiler breaks down, you have to resort to solutions like this so the house doesn’t freeze up.
Last month it was -44 celsius outside one morning, and the gas regulator froze up, had to use oven + space heaters.
how do you wash, bath and dry ur clothes at -44?
My guess is freezing/sublimation on the clothing. I think in such cases, there’s also something to be said for letting things go awhile– I mean, if it’s that cold, does anything smell bad anymore? It’s not like you’re sweating!
That better not be one of my tenants!!! That’s a great way to set the place on fire, and when you do it with the gas stove, it’s a real good way to die.
I was wondering when I can expect my security deposit back? Pay no mind to the scorch marks on the cabinets.
No… cant you see, this is a post modern expression of the evolution of indoor heating. It hearkens back to a simpler time. Here the stove represents the hearth of days past, where the family would gather to both heat their houses, and cook. the fan represents the advent of forced air heating in the early 19th century. Why can no one ever see and appreciate these modern art instillations?
Best answer yet. I give it a 9.3
9.3? I give it a 10. It’s so true it almost hurts.
Or it could be the last resort when the Furnace breaks down and it’s sub-zero outside.
By an incredible stroke of luck, it was Ms. Fixit who finally zeroed in on the real source of global warming.
“Welcome to another episode of ‘Viable Concept…Failed Delivery’. We have with us today Jimmy Sanders. Jimmy, you’re looking at a picture of your apartment. Can you tell us what you did wrong?”
“Well, I guess I shouldn’t have had the fan backwards so it would draw OUT the heated air instead of blowing cold air INTO the oven.”
“Aaaaand?”
“Umm…and maybe it would have worked better if I actually turned the fan on?”
“There you go, Jimmy! Now…I noticed that your right hand is completely bandaged. Is that from burning yourself on the oven while getting everything set up?”
“Sadly, no. I sliced my hand up pretty good because I couldn’t find my can opener and thought I could use a knife to get into a couple of canned goods that you also see there in the picture.”
“Ouch! Well, that’s all the time we have today, folks. Thanks for stopping by, Jimmy! Try to refrain from using your underwear as a substitute for filtering your coffee grounds.”
Sorry, but blowing the air into the oven is about a billion times more effective than trying to suck it out. Not sure where you’re getting your strange ideas about heat exchange.
+2 for delivery, I hope we continue to hear from Jimmy on future kludges
Maybe he just pulled dinner out of the oven. Why waste 450 degrees of perfectly useable heat?
How exactly would it be wasted? The oven is still hot
regardless of whether or not you put a fan there.
Are you implying that the heat would otherwise “disappear”
It’ll just dissipate from that spot instead of being circulated through the building.
Here lives an 80′s heavy metal rocker with a broken hair-dryer.
1.) Pointing the fan toward the oven ought to work just as well–any air that gets pushed into the oven is going to come out again.
2.) Assuming that ae using a gas oven for heat during a power outage, how are you running the fan. Oh, you have a gas fan, also?
Actually, pointing the fan inward is probably the best idea. Using the fan to suck the hot air *out* of the oven would probably result in melted fan blades.
That said…buy a couple of space heaters, for crying out loud. They start at like $20 each.
If you gotta pay for oil heat and the landlord covers the electricity, why not?
That was me in college. Like you said, we had free electricity, but paid for gas (and all heaters were wall-mount gas heaters). We used this and each roommate (6 of us) had our own electric space heaters. Blew the circuit breakers left and right.
I have to admit I’ve had to use my gas oven to heat the place before. In college, trailer with no heat (b/c cheap landlord wouldn’t put heat in), all I had was a gas oven at one point. Didn’t think about the fan though, that would have been superkludgearific!
Step 1: Pre-heat apartment to 350 degrees.
Then add two tablespoons of WINSAUCE!
The cabinets don’t line up, the outlets don’t line up, what is up with that kitchen?
Welcome to Florida and Mr. Fixxit.
I always thought that this was a good way to start a fire or get someone hurt.
I guess wrapping up in a blanket didn’t occur to them.
Get a Snuggie. Or wear a bathrobe backwards.
You can’t see it but there’s a duct pointing out at his whole orange orchard.
Would somebody please turn down the heat? It’s broiling in here.
After he failed to melt the ozone layer with hair spray, Professor Chaos hatched his newest evil plot: Global Warming.
I work in a convenience store with crappy heating and since we make lunches for the workers out at the docks we have an oven, i do this nearly every day after i can’t hold anymore coffee or hot chocolate, just turn on oven, open oven doors, and pray nobody comes into the store till the store is warm.
You know, there’s a song called “U Know U Ghetto” that talks about this very scenario. “…U know U ghetto when you heat the house with the oven/and anybody famous from the hood yo’ cousin!…”
The isn’t meant to heat the house but cool the oven :O….that is turned…on. I don’t get it either but the fan IS pointing towards the oven.
This is how some Native Americans heat their houses. Really! That’s the first thing to come to mind when I saw this krazy kludge.
http://www.republicoflakotah.com/genocide/
(scroll down to the “poverty” section)
Strange, same name, same situation, but not mine. I had a problem when I just moved into an apartment in 2008. The propane had been turned off, and they could not come out to turn it on for a week. Well, in the intervening week, it got really cold. I ended up using the electric stove, both the oven and the cook top to heat up the apartment each day.
Nice cabinets. Maybe thae should have put the money into a new furnace instead.
I’ve actually done this.
one word – fantastic
I do this. We don’t need heat 360 days of the year. The 5 we do, this is how we get it.
i don’t find this humorous… my grandma caught her house on fire and died from the smoke by doing this EXACT thing to reduce the heat bill… :<
I’ve done that a few times…the furnace doesn’t work as well as it should.
Shouldn’t they at least plug the fan in? I mean, there r like 6 outlets right there!!!!!! I mean, seriously!!!!!!
Wouldn’t want to be around the the s**t hits.