is such a thing possible?
I can afford rent or heating, no longer both. At night I use a sleeping bag, but during the day I need to move around and coats, gloves etc. are cumbersome. I need a small space to work with my laptop where the temperature is tolerable. I have an old tent but it's the kind where you put spikes in the ground, can't use it on the floors, don't own the apartment.
Looking for alternatives, or any tips in general how to cope with the cold. Thank you.
To mods: feel free to move this thread to a different board, if appropriate.
I tried /misc/ (since this situation was caused by my country's shitty politics) but they suggested I should arm myself and start killing government officials...
Now I'm thinking PrepHole must be a good board to discuss tent equipment and such.
Frick jannies.
Assuming this isn’t a meme shitpost- hang blankets from floor to ceiling to make a smaller area to keep warm.
But stop whining, you’re shivering for Ukraine, Slava zoolenski, take that Putler!
Thank you. How do I put the blankets in place, is there a tutorial? Reaching the ceiling is not easy, I live in an 'Altbau', an old building where ceilings are more than 3 meters high. I have a ladder but it only reaches enough to replace the lighbulbs which hand from long cables. Getting an extra-high ladder is also tricky since I don't own a car and there's no hardwarestores in the vicinity. If I have to nail blankets against the ceilings I may as well just cut my losses and nail the tent into the wooden floors and fill them with plaster in spring or something - if I paint them over or put a carpet maybe the landlord won't notice.
>Altbau
You live in Germany? Why don't you get government gibs, like Wohngeld or Arbeitslosengeld?
Also maybe move out of that poorly insulated house.
If you can get online deliveries you could use command hooks and fishing line to suspend the blankets
>take that Putler!
War sucks, but freezing out your own citizens just to support a foreign nation should be treated as treason. Both Russia and Ukraine can frick right off in my opinion, I have no part in their stupid war. Our politicians are absolute rat bastards.
Still waiting for further instructions on the blanket proposition...
>buy hooks
>attach to ceiling every 2' or so, making a rectangle
>hang blankets from hooks
all you're doing is making a smaller, somewhat insulated area that could be warmed by body heat. sorry didn't realize it was such a complicated notion
Yeah I used to have an Action Man one
>'I-I h-h-hate g-global warming.', exclaims the western man, as he huddles in his Action Man livingroom tent for warmth.
Climate change -> There will be more extremes, Cold and Hot ones.
Currently its cold. Hopefully it stays this way I prefer cold. But in the end its supposed to get (globally all changes added up) to get hotter.
Weird that they have to keep changing the definition, in the 60s it was a "new ice age", the 2000s it became "countries will disappear off the map from rising water levels". If only we purchased their products and gave our governments more taxes...
How do I know you are breathing through your mouth right now?
Of course there are loads of tents that don't need pegs to hold them up. Just search for a pop up tent and double check by watching an assembly video on YouTube
Your windows are shit, and most likely the largest source of heat loss.
First you need to make sure the seal around the frame is airtight.
Use some caulking to do this.
After that you need to create more panes.
This can be done with cheap plastic film, typically polycro, but if you don’t care about seeing through the window, you can use cheap Mylar emergency blankets since it’s also reflective.
Do not tape these directly to the glass, tape it to the window frame, and make sure it’s tight so there is a small air gap between the glass and the film.
If you really want, you can then made an additional pane by taping film across the wall’s cutout the window frame is set into.
Do this for your bedroom, and seal the HVAC vent in that room too if you have one.
I’m guessing your bedroom door doesn’t have a seal.
Rubber weather seal for doors is cheap and has adhesive to stick right on to the frame.
Don’t seal the bottom of the door unless you wanna suffocate.
After that, just an electric tower heater you can put next to you will probably be fine
Concentrate primarily on warming yourself. Once you have a large space a single human body is only going to pump out about 100W or so of heat, if there's wind or a lot of surface area transferring heat it's a losing battle.
As for creating a smaller, insulated space, cardboard, styrofoam, and blankets may be a good option. For the cardboard to work what you want is a layers with something like styrofoam or loosely balled up newspaper in-between to create dead air. If you can get something like Reflextix that will also work great to create walls as it's basically aluminized bubblewrap and has great insulation. Cardboard also provide something stiff enough that you can basically build an interior space. Put yourself in a corner, make two walls and a ceiling. You can heat it but be very careful as a lot of these budget insulation materials are very flammable.
If you're looking for material on a budget, ask a nearby shop for boxes from shipments. Places that carry appliances or other large items have large boxes. That can also be a source of stryofoam from packing material. Pillows are also fairly good at being insulating material. If it's really that bad consider using them to fill the space you create and maybe even create more by piling other clothes into spare cases, wrapped in a sheet, or stuffed in other clothes.
Hammocks have no insulation underneath them without an under quilt or similar. Plus it won't provide the workspace the OP is after.
an indoor hammock tent is probably your best bet. these can be very comfortable and very warm.
just find an old refrigerator box and make it your cozy fort.
>when both "yurop will freeze" and "tumor weak nooks" fail so this is what it comes down to