Heater Help

So far I like this heater. It’s easy to use, and makes me comfortable in cold weather. I’ve had it a little over a week now.

This unit does not have wheels. It must be picked up and carried, for which it has something like handles. It’s not too heavy, but an oil filled heater has to have oil in it in order to work properly and that necessarily adds some weight.

I’m not sure if the rounded shape confers any benefit. I suspect it does not. It does look good though, not all boxy like a normal oil filled heater.

Our room faces the northwest side, so we really needed something to regulate the temperature. This was the best solution of the choices we had at Home Depot.

Overview

Woohoo! Another reason to have a remote! This unit came with a remote! Not like we already don’t have a collection of these. The max output is 1500W, 120VAC. That means it can heat up a room really good. The lower the wattage, the weaker it is. The design is a very attractive black with an large LED display of the temperature, two heating modes (high or low), timer (if it’s set) and current temperature.

we purchased a bionaire 3900 console heater, and exactly one year and two weeks after purchase it buzzed loudly, emitted smoke and put out a seriously ‘burned’ smell. i opened the faceplate and found that several wires to the heat level control knob were either melted or fused; the knob housing itself was melted and charred! a neighbor happened to have a similar unit, and complained that it often wouldn’t turn on unless he toyed with the knobs; i opened it and found the SAME burned and melted wires! bionaire’s way of building the heater was to use a little locking tab of copper to hold the power wires to the control box, and it was clearly insufficient a connection for the amount of current flowing through the wire. this led to overheating, melting and fire. a mr. pantaleon silva, customer service ‘manager’ at bionaire, COMPLETELY blew us off about this, despite many close-up pictures sent to him. finally, bionaire offerred us ANOTHER one, with the SAME defect! sorry, my life is worth more than that. these losers need a class-action suit. PS - a friend purchased one of their ‘galileo’ cube heaters - it has fans that often fail to run when turned on, leading to overheating. BAD PRODUCTS!!!

My brother gave me this Vornado heater as a much needed Christmas gift about a year ago. My brother researches everything he buys, usually using Consumer Reports and usually only buys when the object is rated very high and is a good value for the money spent. He told me that the main advantage to this heater was that if it tips over, it automatically shuts off. This is true. If you move this heater, it shuts off right away. This is a great safety factor.

Winter is my least favorite season and I am constantly looking for ways to stay warm during these dreary months. The heat from the furnace isn’t always good enough and I find I often have to reach for a space heater to compensate for the difference. One heater brand I have grown to like is Holmes and one of its many different products is the Holmes HFH110U, a small portable space heater.

Facts About This Product:

I bought mine in walmarts for about $35 several years ago.

It worked fine. Then after about 2 years one of the switches on the front (which controls 900 watts) stopped working.

I find all oil filled heaters (I have 4) close to the same in heat output (they’re the same size/construction, they use the same amount of power). The differences are the controls/thermostat, how to move them around, how hard they are to assemble, and do they have a place to stash the cord.

Just as soon as winter sets in with cold temps something is apt to stop working or break. In this case it is our heater. The heater uses propane and I just had the tank filled with it decided to stop working.

To help keep the house warm for the baby we needed some kind of portable heater to use day and night. Our next door neighbor lent us three new Holmes 1500 Watt Ceramic Heater

The heater is small and measures 6″x 5″x7″. It is very unobtrusive depending on where you set it to heat the room.

I have mixed feelings about the Soleus HGW-308:

On the positive side, I definitely like the aesthetics of the unit. It is very light weight, making it easy to move from one part of the house to another. It feels very stable when sitting on the casters (no worries about it falling over). It has a microchip which will turn it off if something (like a towel) is placed over it, accidentally (a nice safety feature). It feels safe to use because there are no exposed elements, no flames and it never gets hot to the touch. It is thin (not taking up much floor space) and I plan to mount mine on a brick wall in my entryway. Also, it is very quiet (just making a few noises, like sheet metal warping, as described by another reviewer) when it heats up. And it doesn’t produce any odors (like my old ceramic heater did). It should be energy efficient, too.

The Honeywell HZ-708 we own, or the fifth one so-to-say was purchased at Menard’s in Germantown, Wisconsin. The heater is packaged well and surrounded by styrofoam on all sides. It comes unassembled but not to worry, it completes in two easy steps of attaching the bracket to the bottom of the heater and snapping the four wheels in place that come with it. Directions are easy to understand, clear concise and to the point. The heater is filled with oil and never needs to be rebuilt, refilled etc. The exact grade or toxicity of the oil onboard is not stated anywhere, which leaves it a mystery. Anyway, on with the rants and raves.

My house was built in 1938, so it is poorly insulated, and the master bedroom, being the farthest room from the forced-air furnace, receives little heat. So, looking for supplemental heat, I tried the Slant/Fin Futura FE-1500.

Even with an outside temperature of 10 degrees, this heater kept a 12′ x 16′ bedroom warm. It doesn’t have glowing red coils and a noisy fan, but a rather simple, trouble-free construction. This is a convection heater and works through basic physics: as warm air rises it creates circular air movement that pulls cool air into the bottom of the heater, through the radiator, and up into the room. A simple concept that works surprisingly well.