Dimplex OFRB7N Electric Heater, 700 W

I needed an under the desk heater for work as my feet are always cold. I had a fan heater before that and Ben on the lower setting it was as consuming 1220W and it never heat up evenly. It would either burn my shoes or let all heat escape. This one is just above 700W and as it heats more evenly and slowly I have heat all around the underneath of my table. It also stops and starts when it gets warm so it has really halved my electricity bill so it basically it has paid itself off in possibly 2 and a half months! You can see on the graph it has reduced my daily consumption from 7.42KWh to 4.32KWh. Your cost of assuming a KWh is £0.34 will be around 25pence per hour. It creates quite a lot of heat for such a small heater. People say that the power button blows up after a while but I will replace it with a non neon button from CPC so it can last a long time. Very light too. Also no oil so no mess or fire hazard for work! Really happy with purchase.

Bonne chauffage pour les petits espaces. Economique.

Both my mum and myself have had one of these heaters for around 5 years now. I use mine to heat my radiator-less cold hall in the colder winters. She uses hers for extra heat in her front room. For a small little radiator they chuck out a ton of heat and don’t cane the electric bill up. Last week my mums boiler packed up. So I ordered her 2 more of these heaters. She put one in her bedroom, one in the hall and her old one in her front room where it usually goes. They worked great at keeping her rooms warm in the emergency, until the boiler was fixed. I paid postage to get the heaters delivered to her within days but they took double the amount of time to deliver. But today I have received an email from Amazon crediting the postage back to me on my next order with them. So thank you Amazon. As I was a bit disappointed over the postage issue but you have made good in the long run as usual. These little radiators are so good, we don’t mind that the extra ones were not needed for long. They are so handy to have and now my mums new spare ones for emergency will be stored away for when needed. They are a sturdy design. No oil in them to leak out. Thermostat works great, so it turns itself on and off to keep the selected temperature. I’ve only ever had to turn it half way round on the temperature setting. The sturdy wide feet make it very stable. Plus it’s easy to pick up and move.

This is a fabulous heater, I gave it 4 stars simply because it is not designed to be covered. This means I can't 'iron' my clothes using heat to get out the creases like I could with my last radiator. It does also mean I can't position it near anything that could fall on it, so they have to be in safe areas rather than in the exact area I would prefer. Having said that, this is a marvellous heater, light, effective (yes, even with 700 W), attractive, small, unobtrusive, economical - I just love it. In fact, I bought two more, so I now have three. They can be placed on the carpet with no fear of an oil spill. One warms my lobby which used to be freezing, I keep them on all the time on low, but give them a boost for half an hour on high first thing in the morning. The rooms warm quickly. One is in the hall, I don't get mould spotting there any more, and it takes the edge off the cold making all the difference. The third is in the sitting room. I have gas central heating, but it doesn't need to be on much now I have the heaters. I recommend it to anyone though it may suit people who are not too cluttered best, because you do need to find a place for it where there are no overhead shelves and nothing can fall on it to block the surface.

After much consideration of other similar heaters, I chose this one. I really like it, it warms up really fast and stays warm for a quite a long time after reaching temperature and the thermostat turning off. I haven't been using it long enough yet to comment on running costs, but it is only 700watts so it should be reasonable. I found it warmed up my living room really quickly (size 14ftx16ft) which surprised me for such a small sized heater, although I did have the door closed. I particularly like the size of it, it easily tucks away down the side of the sofa when not being used and is unexpectedly light and easy to lift, even for me who has joint and mobility problems. The only downside that I can think of is that the cord is short, but that is easily solved with an extension lead. Overall, I would recommend it, it would be good in a small space too, but seems to work really well in larger ones too.