To help minimize your utility costs, it also has a smart eco mode that cycles between the highest and lowest setting to maintain your room temperature while lowering energy consumption. For large spaces, Van Tuijl recommends the Lifesmart infrared space heater with a maximum watts high setting. It includes a remote, a hour timer, three different heat modes and even an 'eco setting' that maintains a constant degree temperature using less power for when you want to bring it into a smaller room.
Rather than a traditional fan design used in many of the options above, this Lasko space heater features a bladeless design like that of Dyson models.
It's equipped with a slew of safety features, including a safe touch surface and an automatic shut-off switch. With its quiet oscillating mode, the sleek tower can evenly distribute heat in rooms up to square feet. If speed is the name of the game, TaoTronics has got you covered.
This space heater can reach up to 70 degrees Fahrenheit in three seconds and features side to side oscillation for increased heat distribution. Additionally, it comes with three heating modes and includes overheating protection sensors, as well as an automatic off switch.
Space heaters are portable devices designed to heat single rooms rather than entire houses, explained Arie Van Tuijl, a licensed home inspector and founder of Home Inspector Secrets.
In addition to their main function of heating things up, space heaters could prove their value in a variety of other ways. Space heaters work faster. A space heater takes less time to distribute heat and warmth within an area compared to an HVAC system, explained Wiseman.
Space heaters are consistent. Space heaters can also maintain the same temperature in a space for as long as you want, allowing you to easily and quickly turn it off and cut off the heat. Automatic Thermostat. Built-In Thermostat. Child Lock. Cool Touch Exterior. Cool Touch Handle.
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A few space heater reviews have complained that the timer makes an audible ticking noise, but we did not encounter this issue in our testing. If you encounter this issue, we recommend that you contact the manufacturer. If you want a heater with the power of a Vornado that also oscillates to spread the heat evenly around the room, get the Vornado OSCTH1.
It also has a nice digital touch screen, with simple controls and an easy-to-read temperature display. The OSCTH1 is a sleek tower fan about a foot and a half tall that looks kind of like a miniature and much less ominous version of the Monoliths from A Space Odyssey , with a clear plastic touchscreen display on the top. In our tests, it was surprisingly good at maintaining this temperature, too.
Within 20 minutes, the room had jumped from the 70s up to 85 degrees Fahrenheit about 8 degrees measured from 6 feet away, or 5 degrees from 3 feet and slowly crept up toward 90 from there over the rest of the hour. Wirecutter editor Joshua Lyons, who has been long-term testing this model in a room with no other heat source, finds the effect frustrating at times. I usually find myself constantly fiddling with the temperature dial to adjust the heat up or down.
If you let the dust build up, it can interfere with the touchscreen mechanism—and you need to turn the heater off in order to clean it, or else risk messing with the touchscreen even more. And if anything does go wrong, the OSCTH1 is backed by an impressive five-year warranty like all the other Vornado models we recommend.
Overall, the OSCTH11 is a great choice if you want to share the warmth with other people in the same room, or just want a steady, balanced control of heat across a space.
Also, it just looks great as it subtly oscillates back and forth in the corner of the room like an extraterrestrial portent. However, we have noticed that it occasionally makes a loud grinding sound while oscillating—something that a few other Amazon reviews have noted , as well. And despite its height, the FH actually has only about a byinch footprint, which makes it a great space-saver.
From our measurements at both 3 feet and 6 feet, it took the FH about 45 minutes to raise the 8 degrees needed to reach our target temperature. Though this was a slower temperature increase than with some of our other picks including the VH and AVH10 , we were impressed by how evenly the temperature rose across the room.
What was even more remarkable was that as soon as the room reached 90 degrees Fahrenheit, the FH kept the temperature there for the rest of the hour.
As the tower heater oscillated, it emitted a low, gentle wooshing sound that was too quiet to measure beneath the hum of the urban streets outside. Unlike most other models we tested, the FH has three built-in heating settings, so it offers more heating flexibility for maximum comfort. It also has four fan modes including fan-only. The FH room heater comes with a large remote control that can be stored in an attached pocket on the back of the tower.
The buttons are clearly marked, matching the controls on the tower itself, including the digital temperature display, the timer, and the Auto Eco setting. The FH was the only electric space heater model we tested that required some minor assembly for the base. We do have a couple of reservations in recommending the FH, in spite of its strong test performance.
And it has a tower design, which on tower fans can be so difficult to clean that they can become inoperable after a season or two. All that being said, the Lasko has continued to perform well in both heating and cooling capacities after a year of continued use. The Vornado VHEAT Vintage Heater is an all-around decent heater, but what really sets it apart is its delightful aesthetic, inspired by the original Vornado design from The VHEAT was able to raise the temperature in the room by 11 degrees in just 15 minutes when measured from 3 feet in front of the fan.
By the end of the hour, there was a degree difference between our measurements at 3 feet in front of the fan and at 6 feet on an angle. Despite its metal exterior, the VHEAT also remained surprisingly cool to the touch—only about degrees Fahrenheit on the sides, and on the grille, and it cooled down even further within minutes of shutting off. If you think it sounds silly to sacrifice some heating prowess for a pleasing retro aesthetic, then the VHEAT may not be the choice for you.
But we found ourselves so utterly charmed by the plastic guitar-amp knobs and solid metal construction that we think this could be a fair trade-off for some people. The CD has a similar design to our longstanding Lasko budget pick, but this model has a thicker, more-cube-like shape, rather than being a tall, thin rectangle.
The button cycles the heater through three settings: a one-hour timer mode, an always-on high mode 1, watts , and an always-on low mode watts. Even if you forget to turn the heater off again, the default one-hour heating mode will having the unit shutting itself off soon enough.
In our tests, the Lasko CD managed to raise the temperature in the bathroom by an impressive 12 degrees over the course of just one hour. Although it did leave the whole bathroom feeling warmer, we also measured about a degree difference on average between our sensor at 3 feet in front of the heater and the one we placed 6 feet away on a diagonal. The Lasko CD will definitely warm you up regardless of your bathroom layout.
As an added bonus, the Lasko also helped to noticeably reduce the humidity in the room, burning off most of the condensation that otherwise tends to form while you shower. Whereas most of the other heaters we tested caused the humidity to drop by only a few points, the Lasko CD essentially traded one percentage point of humidity for every one point of heat.
This might not be a boon in every situation, but it was a pleasant surprise in the windowless bathroom where we performed our tests which otherwise has to rely on a single overhead fan for venting and dehumidification.
This is what specifically sets the Lasko apart for low-risk bathroom usage. The Lasko also has its own built-in overheat protection. The Lasko is not very tall or likely to tip over, and if anything does go wrong, the ALCI plug should catch the problem before it turns into something worse. In , we finally decided to make an exception for the desktop-size Vornado Velocity 1 —which was fine , but mostly just justified our prior assumptions about personal-size space heaters.
The Velocity 1 had tremendous warming power at 3 feet, raising the temperature by a whopping 16 degrees in just 20 minutes; but from 6 feet away, it only increased the temperature by 2 degrees.
Sadly, it has been discontinued by the manufacturer. We also tested the AmazonBasics Portable Ceramic Tower Space Heater , shortly before the news broke that various AmazonBasics electronics products had been exploding with concerning frequency ; by the time we were finished testing, it had already been discontinued. But we were disappointed with it in other ways, including its maddeningly confusing controls and the degree temperature difference between our measurements at 3 and 6 feet.
Disappointing performance and safety concerns make this a quick dismissal. The Vornado MVH , our previous runner-up pick, is mechanically almost identical to our top pick for the best space heater, the VH In previous years, we found it was slower to warm the room in our tests, and that the case was hotter to the touch after an hour.
In , our test model overheated when it was only 82 degrees in the room. We tested the Vornado VH10 , which is a glossier, newer generation of the VH, but nothing set it apart from our less expensive top pick. It recorded similarly quiet decibel levels and performed just as well in heating our room. The VH10 offers a few other perks, such as a ledge to coil the cord around on the bottom of the heater, but we actually found this more annoying than helpful, because our cord kept falling under the heating unit and activating its tip-over switch.
We still think it looks nice, and it usually works pretty well for a loud, cheap fireball, but there are better options out there without the same drawbacks—the most troubling of which have been reports of failures within the first few months, on top of the usual complaints of units arriving damaged or inoperable from the start. Like Prince Robot IV, the Glide took a while to warm up, and it was just kind of fine overall, with decent but uneven heat and very basic functionality.
We recommend snagging one now while you still can and while you still have a variety of brands and styles to choose from before winter arrives. The product experts at Reviewed have all your shopping needs covered. Follow Reviewed on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram for the latest deals, product reviews, and more.
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