Electric Fireplace Logs Inserts Heater with Infrared Remote Controller 5 Flame Brightness 24 H Timer Overheating Protection for Home and Office Decor Black

This exceeded my expectations. It looks like a real fire and puts out heat in 2 settings (high and low). When you turn it on, it defaults to high heat mode. Press the heat button again and it cycles to low heat mode. Push the button one more time and the unit counts down from 59 to 0. While in countdown mode, it expels the heat. Once it gets to zero, the heat is off and it just emits the flame with no heat. That’s how I typically run it- no heat, just the ambiance. It’s worth mentioning that the unit is on top of the fireplace grill that was in my fireplace, so it sits up a bit higher which looks better than if it was on the fireplace floor.

This item was fantastic, the logs look very real and looks great in fireplace. Works very well with the heat element it has, takes the chill off the room.

Works great and looks great

After getting the bad news from an inspection that our fireplace needed $5k+ worth of repairs to render it safe for burning wood, I decided to cut my losses and buy one of these heaters so I could still have some ambiance in our living room. This heater is not perfect, but I believe most of the similar heaters will suffer from the same issues. Pros: lightweight, gives off good heat, has two heat settings, remote control makes it easy to use, and I feel that the light is bright and about as realistic as you could ask for. Generally pretty quiet (see below). Minor cons: the fan in mine seems to be a little off-balance, or one of the screws holding it in is loose - if it's not sitting on a perfectly flat surface, it has a very loud rattling noise as a result. I have this sitting on some bricks in my fireplace and was able to fix it by stuffing some fiberglass insulation under the middle to put gentle pressure against the area where the rattling came from. This might be fixable by opening it up the unit and tightening some screws. The light on mine had also come loose during shipping, I was easily able to snap it back into place by removing the top cast resin piece, which is held in by four screws. The blower output is very low to the ground and blows at a slight upward angle away from the heater. There is nothing normally wrong with this, but if you have doors on your fireplace, you will likely have to elevate it a bit to get the airflow past the lower bezel of the door frame (hence the bricks). It's clearly listed in the description as a 5.9 foot cord, so this one is on me - unless you have a receptacle very close to your fireplace, you'll need an extension cord, which is not ideal at best and dangerous at worse when using a space heater. Make sure you use at minimum a 14/3 gauge cord (12/3 is best) if you need one and plug it directly into the receptacle, not a power strip. Basically all of these have too-short cords and IMO that's fairly irresponsible of the manufacturers. Measured with a watt meter and the light on the brightest setting, it uses about 720 watts on low and 1370 watts on high. Overall I am very satisfied with my purchase. It's a handsome heater and I hope we will get many hours of ambiance and warm space out of it.

For the price I paid for this, this was an excellent buy. I cleaned out my fireplace and put this in its place. It gives a decent bit of ambiance and heat without the hassle or danger of wood.