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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
Best Heater on the Market
By J. L. Strouble
THE HONEYWELL HZ-709: I'm on my sixth oil-filled radiator heater. It's a Honeywell HZ-709, the only satisfactory one I've found currently on the market. The first Honeywell I bought worked very well for one season. When I began experiencing problems, I found customer service to be very responsive and responsible.THE OTHERS: I had a Lakewood which worked very well, but Lakewood doesn't make these heaters anymore. I've also tried two different DeLonghi radiators. Both of them continued to put out irritating fumes even after the break in period. Back they went. Likewise for the Holmes I bought. It gave off a low-level odor that I didn't find too noxious at first; but after the first few hours I developed a continuous and worsening headache + nausea that wouldn't quit unless I left the house. It didn't put out as much heat as the Honeywell either. I gave it two days to prove itself, then gave up on it.THE WARRANTY: So I've purchased a second Honeywell. As I said, the first one worked beautifully for one season. I cranked it up again this fall and it worked fine for a few days. Then, suddenly, the heater started to put out nasty fumes. It smelled like a CFL bulb when they go bad - very nasty. It still worked and I couldn't find any leaking oil. I think the problem was in the control panel. I called customer service because, unlike other heaters, the Honeywell has a three-year warranty. Customer service was very thorough and efficient. The guy I spoke to told me he would waive the $10 return fee (?!!), but he wanted me to ship the heater back at my expense. When I objected, he put me on hold for a short time, then came back and told me that this one time I could just cut off the cord and send it. This I did, and I'm waiting on my replacement heater. Meanwhile I bought another because I wanted a second heater of this type anyway.DIFFERENT TYPES OF HEATERS: I really prefer oil-filled radiators as opposed to forced-air or open-element heaters. They are quiet, slow, even, efficient, and safe. But you have to use them correctly. You can't come into a 60 degree room, crank up one of these radiators, and expect instant warmth. Rather than sending out a fan-driven blast of warm air, it transfers heat to the air and the objects around it by natural convection. Radiator is a misnomer - they should be called convectors.(True radiant heaters, such as quartz heaters, use infrared heat (electromagnetic radiation) to warm objects (and people) rather than the air. This is, in principle, exactly how the sun heats. The air may remain cool, but if you stand in the sunshine you will be warmed by radiation. Infrared heat is great - if you can afford it. Quartz heaters will make your electric bill resemble NASA's budget. Apparently, buying a little piece of the sun is a very expensive proposition.)Back to the oil-filled gadgets. As the heating element inside the convector (aka radiator) heats the oil, a current is generated in the oil because warm oil is more buoyant. The warm oil rises and gives up its heat, via the metal fins, to the colder air. The heated oil constantly rising from the bottom displaces the cooling oil which circulates back down to the heat coil to be heated again etc. etc. Meanwhile, the heated air is rising, forming its own convection current and is circulating throughout the room without any mechanical aids. This gentle current of air ultimately feels warmer than forced air because you are not contending with the "breeze" created by a fan-driven system. The use of natural convection circulation saves money because there is no fan using additional electricity.If your room cools to, say, 55 degrees for a while, then so do all the objects in it. In a typical room, that's a lot of mass to bring back up to the desired temperature. Until everything reaches the desired temp, all that mass is soaking up the heat from whatever source you use. I find that these convection heaters are best used over a long period of time to warm the room and all the objects in it, then to maintain a comfortable temperature. To that end I wish the timer were set up to turn ON the heater (like an hour or two before I wake up or arrive home from work) rather than to turn OFF the heater at a preset time. That would make much more sense to me.THE CONTROLS: The only other caveat to the timer is that if you accidentally turn it on by flicking the center button, your heater will cut off unexpectedly in whatever number of hours you unwittingly chose. Some of the "malfunctions" listed in other reviews may be due to accidentally setting the timer. The other controls work very well and the heater puts out a large, consistent volume of heat for a relatively modest increase in my power bill. The thermostat for this heater is apparently located near the floor. My floor is very cold, so the recorded temperature on the heater panel reads lower than the room temp. I monitor the actual room temperature and reset the heater thermostat accordingly. Right now it is 44 degrees outside, a comfy 72.5 inside, but the heater panel reads 68. This is in a very old, drafty, poorly-insulated 600 sq. ft. unit with no other intentional source of heat.SUMMARY: Oil-filled heaters are quiet, efficient, and safe. The cats can and do sleep right up against it without burning themselves. It will not catch the curtains afire. There is no noisy, inefficient fan. Of all similar heaters, this Honeywell is the best -- well worth the additional price. It is obviously made to higher quality standards than the other, cheaper heaters I've tried. It carries a three-year warranty, and the company stands behind its product. It heats the room without poisoning the air. If they made an even better one and charged even more, I'd buy it!
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
A Definite Money Saver in the Right Location
By Paul S. Remington
My wife and I purchased this heater as a way to offset the ever-increasing cost of heating our home. We were pleased to find that this little space heater worked to reduce our gas and electric bill by approximately 30% during the peak winter months, which amounted to about a $100 savings monthly.We have a 1,700 ft., single-family home that's not very efficient: 6" insulation in the attic, limited attic venting, R11 insulation in the floors, and R19 insulation in the walls. That's pretty bad by today's standards, but not uncommon for 1974. It made little sense to heat the entire house when the two of us are in the family room, or, worse yet, heat the entire home while we're sleeping in the bedroom.So we purchased this Honeywell oil heater and it was a great decision! The heater allows you to preset three different heat settings. You can program in the exact room temperature you'd like the unit to maintain and it has a standby mode that shuts the heat off when the programmed heat has been reached. There's also an 18-hour timer that can control how long the unit is operational.The energy consumption for the heater is as follows: Standby: 55 Watts Low: 600 Watts Medium: 900 Watts High: 1500 WattsFor an average home with eight-foot ceilings, the way you calculate how many Watts of energy you'll need to heat your room is to multiply 10W by the amount of room space. So, for example, if you have a 100 square foot room, that would be 100 sq. ft. x 10 Watts = 1,000 Watts. This heater isn't really designed for rooms over 150 sq. ft. It will work, but the larger the room, the longer it will take to heat it and if it's too large and too cold, it won't be able to maintain a comfortable level of heat.Our main family room is about 270 sq. ft. In the dead of winter when we get home, if we let the house get into the upper 50s, it takes a couple of hours for this heater to get the room in the upper 60s. We typically use the furnace to get the room up to the mid 60s, then turn the furnace off and use the Honeywell oil heater.If you have a larger room space you're trying to heat, you may want to consider a 220V baseboard or hydronic baseboard unit, which can deliver much more Wattage that will translate into more heat energy. Oil heaters, like this one, are a great solution for zone heating of smaller room space, but shouldn't be considered for larger areas.Now to share some experience. We found this heater had the greatest impact in our bedroom. Again, it's a smaller space and it was absolutely perfect for that room. One thing we noticed is this heater dried out the air considerably. So we purchased a humidifier and set it to the recommended 60% level. This does two things: first, it provides needed humidity, which is good for the sinuses and breathing passages; and second, it helps hold the heat in the air. When air gets dry, it's less able to hold heat energy. You remember how heavy the air feels on a hot and humid day? This principle holds true with the air in your room. If you maintain a healthy level of humidity, it assists in maintaining a comfortable level of heat.Normally, I would have given this product a five-star rating and still feel it's worthy of such, but due to the fact that our heater died after about a year, I have to give it a reduced rating. I have read other reviews from owners who have had problems with the thermostatic control build into this unit, so just be forewarned that you could run into some problems. Save your receipt and be prepared to turn it in for warranty service, if necessary. With us, the unit was running great and we heard a "tick" noise from it and it went dead. We didn't save the receipt, so we purchased a new one. I'm not too upset. In the year we owned it, it paid for itself in money saved many times over.Had this not occurred, we would definitely have given it a full five stars. Hopefully you'll have better luck than we did.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Great Heater, but Broken After 2 Months
By Lily
I do not normally write reviews, but I thought that this may be helpful. We purchased this heater from Target and it is a wonderful item. It warmed our room (that is approximately 20x20) very well and was not a hazard in any way. It is actually one of the best heaters that I've had, compared to the stand-up ones that do work well, but this one just heats up the entire room and keeps it at a constant temperature. The only problem is that it somehow would not work after only two months. It is not a circuit or any other fault, it just will no longer turn on. We used the heater only at night and do not know why it stopped working.The company, Kaz incorporated, was very nice and responded to my email inquiry promptly, but there is not an apparent reason for it to have stopped working other than it is a "faulty unit". Target has said that they will refund the money for the heater; although they no longer have them in stock because it is a seasonal item, so we cannot replace it, which is bad only in that we are now freezing at night. *If you purchase this heater, I would recommend keeping all of the paperwork (Target would rather that I kept all of the original packaging, but I did not anticipate having to return it). I kept the receipt and all the booklets and they will refund the money. I hope this review helps.
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