Terracotta Flower Pot Heater Made With Just 3 Items

Here’s a simple room tea candle heater using just 3 items I got at Wal-mart and Home Depot. It costs me about $12 to make this.

The original flower pot heater setup that came out years ago used 2 nested terracotta flower pots held together by a metal screw, nuts and washers. The pots sat on bricks with lit candles on a bread pan. It seemed to work but looked like it was over-kill to me.

Material needed:

Mainstays Utensil Holder, Stainless Steel (found at Wal-mart)

Plant pot with saucer plate, terracotta (found at Home Depot Garden Dept)

Tea Lights (Comes in a bag of 20-100 starting at $1.25 from dollartree)

25 cent coin. Place this over the drain hole to regulate the flow of heat coming out.

How to make this Terracotta Flower Pot Heater

Step 1 – Buy the utensil holder first.

Step 2 – Take the utensil holder with you too Home Depot and take it into the garden dept with the receipt where you bought it.

Step 3 – Start to match the right pots and plates to the utensil holder width and height.

Step 4 – The wonderful part about this heater is there are no bolts to buy and screwing things together. It is SIMPLISTIC in design. No tools needed.

Can a DIY candle heater warm up an entire room?

I recently got to try out this tea candle heater set-up. I lived thru a tornado that hit my town in Kentucky 12-2021. 12 people died.

Deadly Tornado Outbreak Leaves Kentucky Town Unrecognizable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUk2dKC7Rxc

It was like living in the aftermath of a war zone. Here is what I learned from this.

Heat: A tornado in winter? Who knew! It got cold in the house with out power. Fortunately, I had already prepped for that with 2 flower pot heaters w/tea candles due to the rising cost of natural gas to heat my home and to offset the thermostat running all the time. They wont heat your home to 75 degrees, but they will take the chill out of the air. Outside temp was 21 degrees F. Indoor temp gauge said it was 61 degrees F and this was after 3 days of no power, so YES they did their job. I did not freeze to death.

The areas were the tornado hit had a funny weird smell to me.. I was telling my friend about the smell when I was driving thru and he was telling me that gas lines all over the town were leaking natural gas either thru the damaged houses or up rooted.

What you need to be aware of:

Do be careful when removing the top covering pot and cutlery holder as they will become very hot. Never touch the heated parts directly with bare hands.

Do not use in kids’ room or where children have access to it.

Always use in a well-ventilated area and never leave open flames unattended.

Do not cram too many tea lights into the holder as the paraffin wax will melt and may pool together. It becomes very dangerous should the flame spread from the wick to the entire surface of the wax.

Do not use while you are sleeping.