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A TikTok user has shared a ‘bizarre trick’ to help keep her house warm during this winter. Claiming she once lived without heating for four years, social media user Klaire de Lys said that she has a unique thing to try for anyone who is trying to use “as little electricity as possible”.

Klaire’s unusual trick involves putting bricks in the oven. Yes, you read that correctly: putting bricks in the oven helps to keep the house warm, apparently.

The idea is that the bricks will retain a lot of the heat from the oven, YorkshireLive reports, which means that you can then use them to keep warm air circulating around your house. However, Klaire did warn that you should use only bricks and not just any old rocks.

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 three bricks sitting proud 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.

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“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”, Klaire added.

Klaire said that, this way, if the bricks are wet there will be no water trapped underneath them, which can make a loud ‘popping’ sound. Klaire said: “It will scare the absolute life out of you”.

Explaining why she uses this technique in the first place, 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.”

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