A TikTok user who has lived without heating for four years has revealed a no added cost way of keeping warm this winter amid the cost of living crisis. As energy prices soar, Klaire de Lys has come up with a bizarre yet effective way of helping Brits use as 'little electricity as possible'.
Her unorthodox method involves heating bricks in the oven - with the idea that they will retain a lot of the heat meaning they can then be used to keep warm air circulating around the house, reports Yorkshire Live.
Sharing her tip with viewers, she said: "Today's video is another tip on how to stay warm if you're using as little electricity as possible. And one of the things that I do every winter is, whenever I'm cooking in the oven - or at least just at the beginning of winter - what I do is I get three bricks and I put them up on a stand like this."
Klaire then showed fellow users three bricks sitting in her oven on top of a small wire baking tray. She continued: "You want to use bricks, don't use stone and don't use rocks. And the reason I say this is that some stones and rocks, especially if they're near a riverbed, can be very porous and they will have absorbed a lot of water.
"And when you put them in the oven, and if they heat up too fast and too quickly, they can actually explode. So, don't just use any rock that you found in the garden; use bricks, try and let them dry out first before you put them in the oven and also put them on a tray like what you saw I used in the oven."
She said that she uses a wire cookie tray, which can be purchased from Poundland. "They're not expensive", she added.
Explaining why she uses the technique Klaire said: "The reason I put the bricks in the oven is because those bricks heat up when you're doing cooking and then, when you've finished cooking and you've turned everything off, open that door and those bricks are hot.
"They're going to keep that heat a lot longer than the actual oven is, because the oven loses its heat pretty quickly but the bricks don't. So, it might only be an extra 15 or 20 minutes of heat radiating out, but when you don't have any kind of central heating those 15 and 20 minutes make a huge, huge difference."
She went on to warn, however, that if the bricks are wet there will be no water trapped underneath them, which can make a loud 'popping' sound, adding: "It will scare the absolute life out of you".
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