The warm summer months never last forever. Soon it’s time to look for a way to bring a little extra warmth into the home and this simple solar heater is a great project to do just that. It’s made of metal cans, steel or aluminum, and can produce a surprisingly strong and consistent airflow upwards of 140F.
Even on a heavy snow day you’re looking at somewhere around 75-85F.
Best of all, this simple project requires just a few common parts and many of them can simply be re-purposed from your regular recycling. Watch the project come together in the fully-detailed video on the NEXT PAGE:
We made one of these this winter for our place to help keep the electric bill down. 3ftx4ft was the size we built. It needs a solid amount of sunshine to work well but during the hours that it got that sunshine (for us that was noon – about 4pm) it worked really well. I’d equate it to a 1000 watt space heater.
Copied from a Newfoundlander
Worked good in Wyoming I was very suprised
Where do you put it? I dont get it. Do you run the dryer hose from outside to inside? How many hours does it heat?
Thing is it doesn’t work at night when it really gets cold
@[505355952:2048:Matt Strenz]
Good for heating chicken coop
@[1217337693:2048:Shana Will]
Sweet
Leonard says he will make this for me if I save the cans. I have 14 already.