Perfect for my office, works well, don't need to use the fan, great service from AO as always

This heater is pretty good for relatively small rooms. It heats up the room in about half an hour's time at mode II. I usually leave it at I. Cons: The timer is not very user-friendly, we took some time to understand how it works.

I live in an old drafty unit with vents in the ceiling that suck hot air out in winter, and secondly the room I want heated is the main room which is entirely open to the kitchen area, meaning any heater has to work extra-hard. My old oil-column heater was useless at heating this space - if I was lucky the temperature went up by 1 degree no matter how many hours I left it on. I thought it might not be possible to buy a heater that acutally did any better given the environment it has to work in, but having a circulatory disorder, had to try something. I read all the Appliances Online reviews for all products in the electrical heater category. I hade planned not to buy another column heater, but was impressed by the reviews for this Dimplex one. I supposed I had only $150 to lose and much to gain, so I bought it. So glad I did. It raises the temperature of my hard-to-heat space by at minimum 3 degrees and I can turn it off the highest setting after an hour. I can even open my bedroom door before going to bed and the heat will go through into there and even raise the temperature of the bedroom a little. I haven't even needed to use the fan function yet. There's only two drawbacks. 1) the timer system - firstly I don't have it on at the same time every day which means I would have to readjust it every day, and secondly the little dimples you have to push in are so small and fiddly and don't look robust: so I just have to remember to turn it off before bed, which would be easier to remember if the light on the unit went off when you switched the thermostat to off - but it doesn't, it stays on even when the unit is off, until you switch it off at the wall. and 2) the cords is really really short. It says not to plug it in to an extension cord or power board - well, I have it plugged into both an extension cord and a power board, because in my old unit the power-point is at the wrong end of the room and I don't want the heater to heat only the window, I want it to heat the whole main room & kitchen area. But these two drawbacks are not enough to stop me giving it 5 stars, as I would actually have bought the one without a timer if that had been available anyway.