Question about Eden Pure heaters

[Ann Mary]

Does anyone out there have an opinion pro/con about the Eden Pure heaters...Bob Vila sent me a brochure and so therefore I MUST consider it! Seriously, it does look good but experience speaks louder than a brochure. I would be looking to heat about 900 sq of the main floor of our very old farmhouse....as a backup for our woodstove. I can't find in the literature how much energy it draws to work. Thanks for the insight!

[uncle Will in In.]

We have one we've used two winters. We back up an oil furnace with it. The oil it saves is about egual to the electric it uses when oil is over $3.00 a gallon. The large one is 1500 watts. They won't heat 900 square feet unless it is air tight and insulated.
With wood heat you would be way ahead to just set a fan where it will push the warm air to where it is needed. When you add in the cost of an Eden Pure to the electric bill it will add, you will go into the red. <>UNK

[Cabin Fever]

The laws of thermodynamics dictate how much heat 1500 watts of electricity will produce. A 1500w Eden Pure puts out the same amount of heat as a 1500w blow dryer for your hair.

[cfabe]

If you want a 1500 watt electric heater, go spend $30 for one of the little ceramic/fab jobs. Or if you want a silent one, go with one of the oil filled radiator style ones for mybe $60-70. The other ones are just selling you a fancy cabinet with the same cheap heater in it.

[meleahbee]

Some good friends of mine live in an 1895-built farmhouse, poorly insulated, etc. It's primarily heated by woodstove, but they put the Eden Pure in their kitchen as a supplement. They swear by it. They claim it to be better than any ceramic heater. They have small children and pets, and they like the fact that it stays cool to the touch. Sounds like they're really pleased with it. I'm sorry my information isn't firsthand, but I will say when I go into their house in winter it's always toasty.

[mowrey1999]

I have 2 edenpure heaters a ceramic heater ,oil filled radiator heater and a couple other heaters I have bought at garage sales in the past and the eden pure works ok, I mainly use it in a basement which is 900 sq ft and it raises the temp in the basement to the 62-68 in the middle of winter,as far as the cost it doesnt run for 2 cents an hour or whatever they advertise because your still using 1500 watts and your paying on the meter for any time its on but I would say in the winter last year it raised my electric bill probably 30 dollars a month or 1.00 dollar a day it was running and I only would use it 2-3 hours a day , This is just supplimental heat and I have gas in the rest of the house and it would probably be cheaper to just open my downstairs vents a little rather than run the edenpure for a 2-3 hours a day in the winter , It would probably heat 5-700 sq foot nicely but will still cost you a few dollars more per month on the electric than you were paying before,

[willow_girl]

Do a Google search; there are tons of bad reviews about this product. The units are overpriced and don't hold up for long. My bosses' dad bought one to heat his basement; it only lasted a couple months. Buyer beware!

[Ken Scharabok]

It is basically a glorified quartz heat lamp. As I recall when the bulb burns out it has to be replaced by one of their service personnel.

[uncle Will in In.]

Ours has run two winters without any problems. When it runs full time our electric bill goes up nearly $100 per month. The biggest savings is because it is near the thermostat and the rest of the house stays colder because the furnace don't burn as much. A $29 milk house heater would do the same thing. <>UNK

[wwubben]

Our church ran one for a month and checked the amount of electricity it used.They compared the cost of natural gas and electricity to see how it fared.Natural gas was cheaper.My son uses a couple of the $60 ceramic oil heaters and he swears by them.

[indypartridge]

Seems like questions about Eden Pure come up every few months:

http://www.homesteadingtoday.com/sho...ight=eden+pure

http://www.homesteadingtoday.com/sho...ight=eden+pure

http://www.homesteadingtoday.com/sho...ight=eden+pure

[Danaus29]

Mom and Pop got one last year. It worked about 6 months. It came from a place in Canton, Ohio and could be serviced ONLY by the distributor in Canton. Pop drove 4 hours to return it. 4 weeks later he finally got the money back.

Milk house heaters are effective and cost only $25 or so.

[mare]

mine cost over 90.00 to run for a month but my bedroom is to cold so it did heat it up but the cost of the heater and the extra electric it used. i think i would have done better to get one of the oil filled heaters.

[Jim-mi]

Yes they do work very well. Friends of mine used one for 2 months one winter. . . . .until they got slapped in the face with their big electric bill.
It now resides in his insulated workshop inside the barn . . . .where it sees very limited short time usage.

As the ads say yes it will cut your *gas* bill way down........
what they don't say is how much your electric bill will go way up.

[Ken Scharabok]

Mare:

For an isolated room you might consider on the the combination 100v heat & A/C window/wall units.

A sister and BIL are rehabbing a 2000 mobile home. They have one of these units in the master bedroom and front room (which is her scrapbooking room). Seem to work quite well and don't seem to draw a lot of current. They were gone out West for three months traveling and with the two set at 80 degrees their electric bill was barely above minimum usage.

[WhiteChristmas]

http://www.homedecorators.com/newThu...d=hdfireplaces


I've actually been thinking about getting one of these, in case we ever had a power failure. Plus they're really nice looking. Because I live in a trailor park for now, we can't have the real deal of a fireplace/woodstove.