Bought this in January 2023, to heat my bedroom, dry my washing over (and in turn, keep my tropical poison dart frogs tanks at the right temperature).
It's had two years of constant use except those few weeks in summer where we've had heatwaves. When I say constant use, I mean it!
It's easy to set up, easy to move around, a bit clumsy on carpet but still moves, doesn't easily fall over (I have four dogs, including a bull terrier, who hadn't managed to KO it).
Power output wise, warms up relatively quickly, takes a while longer to warm up the room if the temperature has dropped significantly or when it's been off a while (which wasn't often in the room I used this) but certainly blasts the heat out, in less than 30 minutes can warm the room to a lovely, comfortable toasty temp.
Just in case anyone also likes to dry their laundry, with a wing airer over it, it can dry a pair of freshly washed jeans, combat trousers, 5 tshirts, a weeks underwear and a towel in about 1-2 hours and you won't lose heat from the room (so double that time for an entire wing airer, I only used one wing set above the radiator, you'd have to short your airer around to properly dry the other side quickly). If you aren't bothered about drying your stuff quickly, it'll dry everything overnight without the airer over it anyway.
Power cable is a bit short but it's not like you need to have it stood on the middle of the room, mine was about 3 ft away from the window wall, and heated the whole room evenly.
It does get hot when on, and is very hot to touch on the highest setting, but then it's an oil filled radiator, that's how it disperses it's heat?!
Functionality wise, the only annoying bit it the timer, which is fiddly, but easy enough to set. I originally started with mine set on a timer, but switched to just leaving the radiator on, as the rest of the house is freezing and draughty and sucks all the warm air out of my room, I was losing heat too quickly when the timer knocked the radiator off meaning my frogs tanks weren't being kept to temperature, so left it on.
After two years, the radiator has now died, RIP my trusty heat filled friend, but after constant use, i would say it's been great value for money and have ordered another to replace the the temporary one I have heating the room, which is nowhere near as good as the Vonhaus.
| Product Dimensions | 24 x 33.5 x 62 cm; 10 kg |
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| Form Factor | Freestanding |
| Number of pieces | 1 |
