duraflame® 3D Infrared Quartz Electric Fireplace Stove Heater, Black

Absolutely perfect but you need a very long Philips screwdriver to screw legs on. They are extremely difficult to reach and a pair of strong hands are necessary. Afterwards you will find this heater delightful, quiet, beautiful flame pattern. I have an older model with a lousy switch for temperature control that goes on & off about 5 times before it actually turns off the heat. This one has a much better electronic switch that works the way it should. I am running it all day in a large family room in a cold time in Central West Florida. It is heating at the 1500 or high watt lever for about 30 minutes, then turned down to 1000 and it keeps my large area at about 70 degrees and is off more than on. I find this device well made, beautiful looking. It also has open side large vents and the fire looks absolutely real with flams from anywhere! The fire itself is as bright as you could want it, and is also adjustable with a high quality control like the thermostat uses. The switches light up so you know which mode is on and the device that scrolls for flame is quiet and unheard with no squeaking or rolling sounds. It is almost impossible to hear the fan blowing and is extremely quiet even only 6 feet away. This will be a good heater for the large area I use daily and the older one will be places in the master bedroom. I also told my boss at work and he will buy 2 of these; one for his office and 1 for mine. At 36 degrees outside you will never know it in this home and I am very happy with Duraflame design. They are a good company and their subsidiary follows there rules perfectly. This is a great unit. Case closed! Ray C

Kicks out some heat, looks pretty realistic and easy to set up. It's quiet and is very aesthetically pleasing all the way around. It doesn't take up much room. Perfect. I purchased it for a cold bedroom. All you do is is screw on the legs and door handle- screws supplied. I have no idea what this does to the electric bill but if it's bad news I will update.

Day one and it gets 5 stars so far. It's cute, its quiet, the flame effect is convincing, you can run it at 2 heat levels, with or without flame or run it with no heat and just the flame. The flame and the heat both have a dial to control intensity. In about 20 minutes it heated up about 700 sq ft to a comfortable level. It's in the 50s here. Thumbs up. The pkg was good resulting in no damage and it arrived a full week before it was scheduled to get here. Really pleased. Seems primarily constructed of thin sheet metal. It's cool to the touch unless you stick your finger right in the element. Good for kids. It a little on the small side (which I wanted for a small apartment) but be aware of the dimensions. I bought this to replace a similar (about 50% larger) one I had that lasted 12 years. I looked at a lot of them on Amazon and in person at Walmart and Home Depot. I paid $83 for it and me, Jack the Doxie and my 6yo granddaughter like it so far. We're really happy with it on day one.

This unit arrived very quickly, ahead of schedule. Putting it together was very simple, just attach the door handle and the four legs. The body of it is thin metal, the legs are plastic. I think it would have been much nicer with metal legs. Yes, the screws can be a little bit difficult to get started, but it's not the hugely impossible job some reviews would have you believe. I think I had the whole thing done in less than 15 minutes. Plugged in and heating I was pleased that it did not have a big "first burn" smell. However it did have a loud scraping sound, a very annoying sticks on a sidewalk, bad plastic bearing sort of sound that was just intolerable. I was afraid something was very wrong with it, but with some investigating discovered that the thin tin foil fins that create the flickering fire illusion are all spaced on a long thin shaft. As the shaft rotates, some of the fins scrape across the metal housing of the control panel, making that nasty sound. I was able to remove the back of the unit, and then a metal plate and watch to see which fins were scraping, then allow them to rotate to the top and quickly shut the unit off. Then I clipped the fins shorter with a pair of scissors so that they cleared the metal housing. It took a long time of watching and listening and clipping, but I eventually got all of them that had been making that horrible sound. Still an easier fix than trying to pack it up and ship it back and I'm very happy with it now. It heats my small home office very quickly and creates a cozy atmosphere so I almost forget I'm working. Pros - Thermostat with adjustable levels. Control for adjusting flame speed and color. Top stays cool/ Fan forced heat quickly warms up the room, much better than oil filled radiator style. Quiet operation, once I clipped the fins. The motor has a small burbling sound sometimes, but it's hardly noticeable. The heating fan is quiet. This is only feet away from my desk but doesn't interfere with phone calls. Controls are hidden behind the door. No big stickers or logos to take away from the pretend fireplace effect. Side screens allow view of the fire from three sides. Fire effect can be used without the heater for those warmer days when you just want the display. Cons - No remote control. Seriously, such a nice unit, you could have added a remote control to make it even better! Plastic legs. I saw a picture from another brand where the legs had actually melted which is kind of scary. The whole fins scraping on metal deal. The engineers could have designed that a lot better. Shipped in retail box, so not only does everyone see what got left on your porch, it's not given any added protection. Luckily the glass on mine did not break in transit. Can't run the heater without the fire effect. So if you want this for a bedroom be aware the light will be on and flickering the whole time. Four stars for lack of remote control and original noise problem.

Top is safe to the touch it doesn't get hot. Its pretty to look at and heats very well because of the infrared aspect.

Great, does not take up much room. Gives out warmth and looks like a real fire is burning.

This is the 3rd Duraflame fireplace that I’ve had and I’ve always loved them, until now. I turned the heat almost all the way down when I wasn’t home. The only thing on was the flame light feature. I came back home to the flames being out and a burned wire smell. Amazon said it’s too late for them to do anything and I can’t get through customer support. I will never waste my money on these again. I don’t usually write reviews but they don’t make them like they use to for sure. I’ll continue trying support and update if there’s any change.

Love this Fireplsce Stovd with Syntjetic Flames. The Flames are Beautiful and it does Heat up the 2 Bedroom Apartment pretty good, especially the Living Room

Had a cheaper electric fire place before in my dinning room, after a few months it became noisy and didn't quite do the job even on full heat. The Duraflame will heat my open dinning room even on low setting. The infrared quartz heat is very enjoyable, soothing and quiet. Very glad I made this purchase! You will need a 6" Phillips screw driver to put the legs on. If you don't have one, order one. After that you will enjoy this, garrateed!

We bought this for my 12 year olds room, it is really cold in the winter. He loves it and sometimes in the summer he just runs the lights because he thinks they look so cool.

The fireplace effect has stopped working. Probably just needs a new bulb, but after just over three months of use, not being used all the time? When heat is turned on with lower element, blows coolish air. With high element still gives off heat. Have been heating with a quartz heater instead, cost $24.99 on sale and is doing a better job. This heater was a disappointment.

Cute but doesn’t give out heat for a small room plus is noisy