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Slant/Fin FE-1500 Coil / Ribbon Baseboard Heater Product FE-1500 Key FeaturesType BaseboardPower Source ElectricHeating Element Coi...

Excellent heater! - Slant/Fin FE-1500 Coil / Ribbon Baseboard Heater I purchased this heater based solely on the reviews here. I had never heard of Slant Fin and had had no experienc...

I have to give this unit the award for looks. It doesn’t look like a clunky heater sitting there, but that is only one reason I like it. Obviously it heats well. I bought this about five years ago for our basement rec room, the entertainment showplace of our home. I forget what I paid, but no matter, you can see what they go for now.We have steam heat, but being an older Cape style house, the basement and the attic does not get a radiator. In fact the larger first floor bedroom is at the end of the pipe chain and the rest of the rooms have to be raging saunas before it gets comfortably warm. I tried those attenuators of varying sizes on the other radiators to increase the push to the last one, but saw little difference. This Slant Fin unit heated that last bedroom nicely, and we primarily use it to heat the entire finished portion of the basement. (approx 15′ by 18′) I had to learn to give it a 30 minute head start, and to close the door at the top of the stairs so the heat can gather. After 20 minutes at full power, I scale it back to half and it maintains a nice temperature. Our basement floor is still chilly in the dead of winter, but thats due to a razor thin carpet and no padding, which we still haven’t replaced from the previous owners. Any floor will be cold if its practically the raw foundation slab. I was looking for a review of that DeLonghi unit, the one that stands more upright, but at this date, there’s no review on this site. We may get that unit for the attic floor, which is converted to the master bedroom. It looks like it takes up far less horizontal space. One drawback of this Slant Fin is that you need a nice 2 to 3 foot area clear because of the wide low design, much like a baseboard heater. We put it close to a wall so it can roll the heat up and across the ceiling, enveloping the room. It has an automatic cut off if it turns over, but of course you also want to make sure that nothing can fall onto it if it’s on the floor. It stays completely cool underneath, so we have it on a long coffee table we found at a garage sale and I’m guessing that extra 18 inches gives it a head start pushing the heat upward. I read a review on here that complained of clicks and “bangs”? Well, I guess if you are an ultra light sleeper that may be a concern, but the clicks I heard were very subtle, and I heard no “bangs”… good thing that person returned it, because that had to be a defect.

I give it high marks. You will be paying higher electric bills, but since we only use it on the occasions that we are down there watching a game or a movie on the 50-inch TV ( I had to throw that in there..) we havent noticed any great change. What I’d like to see is whether the use of one of these portable units upstairs would show a reduction in the light bill. What we have now on the top floor is a huge corner baseboard heater, several years old. That baby cooks, but oh the bills! I hope to get the DeLonghi soon.

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