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In my internship about 4 years ago…

I used to live in the “intern house” owned by the state of Indiana. This was an extremely old house that had its share of problems. One of which was that the heater sometimes fizzled out. Unfortunately since I lived there from Oct-April many of those months in Indiana were cold. One particular weekend when it fizzled out and the on-call number was vacant I headed out to find me a space heater so I didn’t freeze to death inside of the house.

Good timing

I headed to a Meijer in Ft. Wayne and headed to where they kept the heaters. Fortunately they were even having a sale on space heaters! (So, at least my emergency buy I could find a good deal). I found this one for $25 and was ready to head home and see if it worked well.

Works great! Let me tell you about it!

This unit is 15″ x 6″ x 9″ and uses 1320 Watt - Fan Forced power. The cabinet is baked enamel steel and is ice white and grey in color. There is a thermostat dial to set the temperature. Also, a safety feature this heater has is a “safety-tip-over cut off switch” meaning when the unit tips over the power to the heater is cut off immediately turning off the heat. There is also a light that goes on if the unit is getting too hot-cautioning you to turn off the heater for a few minutes.

This unit uses Radiant Heat which means it has a flat ribbon element to emit heat that glows red. The vent on the side of the unit pulls cool air from the floor and circulates the warmth. There is a carrying handle in the back and the unit requires no assembly.

The unit is 6.6lbs and plugs in easily to an outlet in the wall.

Saving money…

With the rising cost of natural gas in the U.S.A. you may be interested to know that if you turn down your thermostat and use a space heater like this one that uses only 1320 Watts of power in the area that you are in, you can still be warm and comfortable and save money on not heating the entire house. 1320 watts is also safer on your outlets than the typical 1500 watts because you are not using as much of the available power.

My experience

This space heater was literally a life saver in my internship in that silly problem-filled house. It kept me many times when that heater would fizzle and it would be a bit before they could fix it. The heater was able to fill a room full of heat so that it was comfortable to be in it with or without a blanket… even with no heat going in the house. It never warmed more than a room or so, but that was alright because at least there was someplace that was warm.

In my home now (my husband and I own our house) we use it from time to time to help with our heat bill in the winter. If we are going to be watching a movie we might set it up in that room and then turn down the thermostat for a bit and go with that. The only thing that is tricky now is that we have a baby so if the baby is asleep we don’t want to freeze him to save a buck or two.

Cost

This may retail as high as $90… try to find it on sale!

Overall

I recommend this space heater highly. I have had it for around 4 years and it still works and runs like new. The cost effectiveness for running during the winter months could be amazing!

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