Fire Sense 01775 Performance Series Patio Heater With Wheels 50,000 BTU Output Electronic Ignition System Portable Outdoor Propane Heater - Unpainted Stainless Steel

Purchased this for enclosed patio / lanai in Florida. These patio heaters are very popular in Florida because there is a large part of the year when the evenings are just a bit too cold to sit outside. I did not want to spend $1200 on a real commercial model as it would only be used once a week at most. There is a unit on Amazon that goes for $179 and has decent reviews however some reported that it starts to rust rather quickly. I chose this higher priced model because it is made from the higher quality "304" stainless steel and should hold up better to the frequent rain and humidity in Florida. It took me 45min to assemble and was pretty straight forward, although the instructions are light on the details. The amount of hardware was much less than I expected and everything seemed to line up nicely. The heater fired right up and you CAN feel the heat 9ft away as advertised. I really like the pilotless lighting system. Time will tell how this hold up but I am expecting a few years of trouble free usage. I like that the company is here in Florida and specializes in patio accessories. Parts should be easy to come by as they make a lot of patio heaters (manufactured in China, serviced and distributed in Amelia Island, FL).For $300, this heater meets my expectations.

This heater is definitely worth the money. It is well built and relatively easy to assemble. It is very powerful and generates lots of heat. It is a gas guzzler and runs through the propane pretty fast. Flame is adjustable and you can turn it down a little to save gas. I have another, infrared patio heater than is almost as powerful and uses less propane. It did cost a lot more than this one.

I was extremely disappointed in this product. It is absolutely not worth it! The parts are poorly made. It was almost impossible to put the heat shield together since the small nuts & bolts were not long enough to fit through 3 pieces of metal. I honestly had to wrestle the heat shield on the ground, and take it apart numerous times, since it all never lined up properly. When I finally did get the entire unit together, the ignition switch would not work, and the heater's main burner would not light up. After numerous attempts to make it work, I boxed it up and sent it back. To give you some sense of what a pain it was to put this heater together, the same day as I put the patio heater together, I also assembled a Weber Gas Grill. My father and I had more trouble putting the patio heater together than we did the finely crafted Weber Grill! Now with a new beautiful grill and no patio heater, I was going to order a patio heater from Restoration Hardware since I thought they would offer a higher quality product. What I discovered when looking at their specs, the heater they offered was actually the Fire Sense Deluxe Patio Heater offered on Amazon for $50 more then this originally ordered heater. Restoration Hardware offered the Deluxe heater for $449, but did include a cover with it. I opted to order the unit from Amazon at $304.00 and it arrived yesterday. I immediately noticed the quality of parts is much higher, and the heat shield went together without a glitch, also better designed as it has fewer pieces. Overall this new Deluxe heater went together smoothly, except for one MAJOR flaw in the directions! The Deluxe Heater stand is not weighted, and there is a plastic unit on the bottom that needs be filled with sand. You should fill the plastic tote as your first step before doing anything else. I put the entire heater together & then was going to fill the plastic bottle at the end, but with the weight of the sand, I could not re-attach it (I was working by myself this time). I ended up having to take the heater apart again, so I could wrangle the base and attach the sand filled weight. The directions do not say anything about filling the plastic tote! My Deluxe Heater starts right up & provides excellent heat range!! The moral of this story is, spend $50 more and get the Deluxe Patio Heater, forget about this shoddy unit!

It is a nice unit!! Assembly was easy. I rolled it out to the patio fired it up, my wife and I loved it. Since we live in an open area we knew this would blow over with just a little wind. So as I rolled it over the grass to place in the garage the aluminum threaded insert connecting the two pipe stacks together popped out. They were only pressed in with 4 shallow indentations. The aluminum was soft and the indentations of the SS then grooved the aluminum. I debated whether to turn a new metal thread (very time consuming) use JB weld or what I finally did was placed the insert back in and drilled the post at the indentation and inserted SS screws with lock nuts on the inside. This simple fix worked great. However even though I used a low profile screw head the Tank cover hangs up on the screw heads. Okay I have to force it a little over the plastic ring protecting the post from scratching but the price of this unit and the nice heat it puts out I'm pleased. I use a small hand dolly now to roll it around vs relying on the tiny rollers it comes with. If you have nothing but smooth concrete or other smooth surface to move this around you're probably okay, but be aware, that joint connecting the two posts is very weak.

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So, here's the issue. I searched online and compared features of about 10 of these types of products. I could have purchased one for almost half the price from Canadian Tire, about 5 minutes from my house, but out of the all the reviews, most said the igniter doesn't work. This item had mostly good reviews and it claimed to be 18 feet of heat and a commercial version.Well, the igniter doesn't work. The battery is in correctly but there isn't even a clicking noise to tell me its attempting to ignite the burner. So, I'm going to have to take this thing apart and try to find the problem, and if I can't, I will have to do what everyone else does and use a long trigger lighter for candles and BBQ's.No way there is 18 feet diameter heating as it suggests on the ordering page.I do not like the dial on it because there is no clear indication of what is OFF and what is ON. The only clear line is the line of calibration.Looks nice, is a little better quality than some of the local versions, BUT, the extra weight is from putting water in the base, not from better material.Oh yes, in the instructions, it tells you that most of the parts are pre-assembled. NOTHING is PRE-Assembled!!!!!!!!!!In final, the item works but only in a small area where my deck couches and chairs are, but it doesn't reach even 10 feet, where at least it could temporarily keep people a bit warm in the winter when they get out of the hot tub, at least until they did off and put on a robe, which is primarily what this was purchased for.Regards,Glenn