List Price: $34.99
Sale Price: $29.10
Today's Bonus: 17% Off
We bought this to heat up specific areas of our drafty apartment. Mostly, we've been using it in our living room, which is miserably cold in the winter. The room is about 10x14, and this little heater maxes out to warm it comfortably. I used it one day to jumpstart the temperature in my son's much smaller room and it was effective in minutes. It really is for smaller rooms.
Pros:
-Does warm quiet well
-Stay cool housing
-Automatically turns off if tipped over
-Two fan speeds for heat, and one for fan alone (I can't tell any difference between low and high, though)
Cons:
-It's quite loud. If you're watching a movie, or trying to talk on the phone, it's a bit intrusive
-The cord gets warm. That seems rather worrying, except that we never leave it on or plugged in unmonitored. I don't feel like it is suddenly going to explode, I just wouldn't leave any electric heater on or plugged in with our old-house wiring (we even unplug our toaster when we're not using it)
-It's not very efficient if the heat is not turned all the way up comes off and on every five minutes or so, which, combined with the noise level, is a little annoying
-Also the grate on the front (pretty small) does heat up, so it'll have to be out of reach if you have crawlers or pets.
All this to say, we're keeping it. It's already here, the price was right and it makes our frozen tundra of a living room quite cozy. I'm just going to pretend the noise is the sound of crashing waves on a seashore in the tropics.
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