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| Customer Reviews: | | Average Customer Review: ( 69 customer reviews )
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21 of 21 found the following review helpful:
 Perfect heater for Small to Medium rooms. Jan 17, 2008
By Surandome
This is a perfect heater for guest rooms, bedrooms, and office type spaces. It has preset temperature settings starting from 60 up to 80 degrees fahrenheit in increments of 5, and automatically turns off and on when the setting has been reached or falls below respectively. Granted, the immediate temperature around the heater may not coincide with the room as a whole, but the differences are small. The heater also has two manual settings (High heat - 1500 watts / Low heat - 1000 watts) that will provide continuous nonstop heat until the user chooses change the setting. These two settings will heat a room to a cozy 85 degrees.
One of the key advantages of this heater over other fan-forced heaters is it's quiet factor. I am able to sleep and study with this heater on 24/7 (I keep it on High most of the time). It does generate minor sound due to the heated air being forced by the fan, but it is soothing, and in fact serves as a nice replacement for external sounds coming from outside the room being heated (for example T.V's, dog barking at night, etc.). There is no noticeable mechanical noise assosciated with its operation. It also has an elegant and compact design.
For anyone concerned, it does not support a seperate 'fan only' button, only heating options. It does not oscillate, does not have a remote control, and does not have a 'tip-over' safety shutoff feature (it has a wide base though).
I own two of these heaters, and I had to return one of original heaters due to a malfunction. But these problems usually crop up within the first 2 weeks of operating any heater, so once you pass the break-in period, the product should work beyond its warranty.
27 of 30 found the following review helpful:
 Thermostat mode is a JOKE and an AFTERTHOUGHT! Oct 29, 2006
By CQ DX
There are much better working heaters out there for the money. I've had the Holmes 'One-Touch' for over a year now, and although it does provide OK heat in manual (constant on) mode, it does not work well at all in thermostat mode. The unit turns on for only perhaps a minute or two, then shuts off for a much longer period of time. It does not seem to have a temperature sensor to control the unit's thermostat, and thus keep an area heated properly. The unit would have been better off if it had a timer, where you could set it to let's say turn on for 5 minutes, then off for 10, or whatever else time intervals you would need to properly keep your area heated. This is a major shortcoming, since you don't want to keep your space heater on constantly for long periods of time (fire hazard), and you must rely on a thermostat or timer mode to keep the unit on in intervals.
14 of 14 found the following review helpful:
Great heater for the price! Dec 06, 2005
By Mollyanne Gardner
Living in MN our below gound family room can get pretty chilly. We are very pleased at how well this heater warms the room and how quiet it is. When the heater is on our family room becomes the warmest room in the house, allowing us to keep the centeral heat turned down lower than we did before we bought the space heater. Worth the money.
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
 Dangerous Product -- Do Not Buy! Mar 30, 2011
By RochelleYork
I bought this heater about six weeks ago. One morning I turned it on, and saw sparks and smoke pouring out of it. Luckily, I was there and could turn it off. Otherwise, it would have started a fire.
I called Holmes immediately and they seemed unconcerned about this matter.
It is unlikely that mine is the only heater that may catch on fire. Consider yourself warned!
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
VERY QUIET! Heats well, controls could be better Dec 19, 2006
By R. Peery
This is the quietest space heater ever. Truly quiet (you don't know it's on) and it does heat very well. The thermostat is fine/good (not great), and the controls require you to step through all settings to arrive at the setting desired. I'm here on Amazon looking for a second one - so I do recommend this heater, even if the controls aren't 100% perfect. If you need quiet and warm, this is a fine choice.
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