Lasko 42" DUO Comfort Tower Fan Space Heater - Remote - Gray - FH515

I love this tower fan. I live on the top floor of high-rise condo building, and it's difficult to maintain cool temps. This product more than solved my issue as it helps keep my condo's living room cool. I would recommend it any day! It's also super easy to assemble and quiet.

Update: It still works as advertised, but now that winter in here I'm finding out that unless you heat the whole room up, it's not going to be very comfortable just having hot air blowing along the floor. As a fan for cooling it works great, but as a heater, for the amount of power it draws, it's just not enough heat. I just ordered an oil filled design that is supposed to heat a room, not just throw out some spot heat. They seem to be more efficient because you can leave them on all the time 24/7 (they cycle on/off.) On a side note, I noticed that when I make pancakes on my cheapo but large griddle, the whole kitchen quickly gets pretty warm. I set it up in my living room and it doesn't take long to raise the room temp a few degrees. This is pretty much the same principle as those wall mounted heaters. Right off the bat, tower fans/heaters and small kids don’t mix. While it’s pretty stable, some kid is going to want to play with it, followed by yelling parents if it breaks in pieces on the floor, (it is only plastic, not metal.) I like towers over floor models because I don’t sit on the floor. I want to feel it while I’m on a couch or chair. First, the Fan mode. It’s pretty great and moves a narrow vertical beam of air right at you. 4-speeds; the 4th speed is almost too much from 5’ away, which is a good thing on a hot day. You’ll soon want to turn it down. It has an oscillating option, which I never like on fans; a steady flow of air is much better. Now the heater. I didn’t fully test this too much as it’s 82 degrees out. I just wanted to make sure it works. The heat comes out from the lower part, from 5” up to 15” from the floor. While this opposes why I wanted a tower model, it will keep your feet and legs warm. I guess they had to compromise separating the fan and heater, but it does let you run both at the same time. I used to have a smaller tower heater, and always put it in a stand so that the heat was at eye/body level when sitting. I can always put this on a stand too, (no kids). Power draw. At highest heat setting, about 13.6 amps, 1470 watts. Most homes have 15 amp breakers so you’ll probably want this on a separate circuit not shared with other gadgets. Of course, you have lower less power hungry settings, but you know how it is when you’re cold. All electric heaters are going to use a fair amount of power; there’s no “efficiency ratings” for them. All you can do is choose direct radient heat on your skin, or try to heat a whole room (obviously takes more power and a longer run time.) Radiant heat is good for sitting in one spot, watching a movie or reading, and you’re trying to keep your heating bill down. For just the fan, 44 watts to 32 Watts, high to low setting. My ceiling fan uses over twice as much power. Funny how they show a whole family gathered around it. The reality is this is more of a 1 or 2 person fan/heater, at least when it’s really cold (excuse to snuggle up) or really hot (quit hogging the fan.)

Overall, this heater does a great job at heating a decent sized room, quickly. So 4 stars for doing what it should do, at a great price, very well. Minus 1 star for all the overall minor annoyances below. I primarily use it in my office which is ~10 x 15 feet and on the highest setting (out of 3), fills the room with heat very quickly. To the point where I have to turn it down because it's just too much. Feels pretty sturdy and doesn't feel like it would knock over with a small bump. The oscillation has a mediocre range if you even care about that. Didn't really matter for me since it just literally fills the entire room with heat so quickly. The remote is where this is lacking - the images on the button are difficult to see on the dark grey/blackish controller. And the buttons are not very distinct tactile-wise so good luck using this thing in the middle of the night, and good luck if you're an older person - they're gonna have a helluva time with it. The LED light display is SUPER ANNOYINGLY bright. Good luck going to sleep with this one in the room. I literally have to use a piece of cloth and wrapped it around the unit to block the LED display. Lastly, wish it had a better carrying handle, as i like to bring it from room to room as needed. Luckily the unit isn't super heavy, but it's cumbersome and would pose problems for weaker people. Overall, would still recommend because it does a quality job, but they could have made certain things better for sure.

One of the rooms in my house is either a sauna or freezer. This works amazing in both environments. The heat coming off this thing is crazy and the fan keeps you cool. I Recommend. Noise is quiet, speed is adjustable only downside is the bright light showing it’s on but I put some tape over it and sharpied the light out. I have the remote so I still know what it’s doing or adjust it from the bed 10/10 great fan

Bought in 2020, and the performance is top-notch. It has been working since day one with no issues. The noise level is relatively similar to others. The weight is good, and the flow is pretty consistent. Cooling is effective, although it depends on where it is placed for maximum cooling or airflow performance.

My bedroom is hot in summer. I freeze in winter. This Fan & Heater combo is great.

This “heater” has a bizarre design in many ways. The whole stack isn’t a heater, only the bottom of the stack is a little heater so if you’re expecting this whole tower to put out heat, you’re going to be disappointed, it doesn’t put out anymore heat than a smaller tower heater that lasko makes. The fan controls aren’t lit at all so if you want to adjust this at night, you’re going in blind. It beeps SO LOUD when you adjust it for who knows what reason. There are obnoxiously bright leds on the FRONT of the unit show you all night long right in your face what fan setting you’re on. Lasko makes zero consideration for any users using their products at home. Blaring noises that wake everyone else up along with blaring bright LEDs that mean nothing keeping you up. You get the choice of being blinded by bright red leds if you use the really weak heater or bright blue blind leds if you use the fan. They are so bright they will light up your bedroom. This fan does auto shut off but there seems to be an issue with the thermostat and our room gets blaring hot. We have decided this unit is completely overpriced and is just a glorified tower fan with a little heater on the bottom. If you need both, great, but if you’re like me and you were expecting a huge heater, you’ll be disappointed. The heater is weak compared to the size of the unit. Wouldn’t recommend this product. It’s a really careless use of LEDs, sounds and heater design to fool the customer into something is higher end than it should be. As I’m typing this, the blue LEDs are blinding me out my left eye. I have it on fan setting 2, so that means 2 blinding LEDs that were on all night and made my bedroom bright blue. No way to turn them off.

We have a ten year old Lasko 2511 tower fan that we decided to upgrade to this all-in-one fan and space heater. We plan to use it in our living room year-round for heating and cooling that space while we're in it. We've been using it for the past 5 days. PRO: - Looks nice. - It's huge... taller than we expected. We like that the fan is so high up on the unit, though, and expect we'll get more of a direct hit from it than the old fan. CON: - The oscillation is loud. It started quiet, oddly enough, and we commented on how quiet the feature was compared to the old fan. But a few days later it started making a churning sound when it hits the far left and far right sides. We hear it over our TV. We stopped oscillating it. - The remote is maddening. It's common to keep pressing a button repeatedly, hearing no sound, pointing it every direction you can think of with no response from the unit. It seems like a technology they had already mastered (our old fan had a remote too and this issue wasn't present) so I'm not sure how they got it so wrong. We stopped using the remote. - The temperature setting is really sensitive. The heater will run for a while, then when it reaches its set temperature it cycles the heat off. Then back on when it drops one degree. Then off. The unit will do this so rapidly it's an annoyance (20 second intervals at times). We stopped using the temperature setting and just use the H1, H2, and H3 settings or turn it off. Basically every convenience feature here sucks. But the fan does fan and the heater does heat.