Vornado AVH10 Space Heater for Home, Fan Only Option, Digital Display with Adjustable Thermostat, Advanced Safety Features, Auto Climate Control, Whole Room Electric Heater for Indoors

The space heater is very easy to use right out of the box. It takes one minute to start using it after you open the package. It has a lot of interesting features, and yet it looks very simple. You can set the temperature really easy I never needed a manual start pressing the buttons, and it just keeps working I have now used this heater in several homes consistently for a period of three years and never had a single malfunction. I’m heavily dependent on this portable heater as it reduces my electricity bill substantially. It’s just not economical anymore to heat the entire home especially when you are confined to one location. nowadays with the working at home it becomes really important to make the home as comfortable as possible. You don’t want to be shivering while you do zoom meetings with your coworkers. I usually keep the door of the room open, and that would mean that cold air from the house may enter the room in the long run. This may work out better as otherwise, in a closed room the air can become too dry and by the time you wake up in the morning you could be dehydrated so I recommend you keep the door not completely shut. You need fresh air anyway and you would have kept the door open. Otherwise, if you did not have the heater..The space heater does not really make much sound at all. It does have a fan setting, but I rarely use it as if you don’t need it in summer seasons the fan is just not powerful enough to cool a room. They’re a lot better portable fans that come in the same size. Space heater is very light, and you can move it from one room to another very easily. It does have a safety shut off, so you do not need to worry about any safety issues. Often just make sure that I know in flammables or papers nearby just in case. And when you leave the room or the house, I suggest that you shut the heater just in case especially if you live in an apartment.. due to closed spaces that could be a danger keeping the heater on in apartments.This is a perfect gift to give a friend or family member in Christmas.

I purchased this heater for a husband who stays cold and after reading a positive review in a consumer magazine. My first observation is that it is very quiet when operating which is a positive since it sits about 6 feet from the TV and my husband. For a utilitarian heater, it has an attractive appearance, so I don't mind seeing it sit in my living room. It is well made and sturdy (not easy to turn over). The buttons on the top of the heater are understandable, so operation is easy (no long instructions to read). I don't think this heater could be the primary source of heat in a large room, but it is a great little space heater. Because of its compact size, it will be easy to store during summer months in a closet.

The media could not be loaded. I bought into Vornado when my kids were babies. Probably about 4-5 years ago I bought two of the child proof ones and for our kids’ rooms, and we still use them in our their rooms today (they are 5 and 8 now).As gas prices have surged here in California, I bought 4 additional fans of this model with the thermostat for the other areas of our house - our master bedroom, living room, playroom, and front room. The fans are super quiet and pump out a lot of heat. We usually set them to 71 on high to keep our house cozy, and it’s still hundreds of dollars cheaper than gas.I saw some poor reviews so I wanted to share my experience. I haven’t had any issues with any of my 6 Vornado fans. Our power buttons work great. We run them all the time. The fire protection feature is solid. And if you have little ones, check out the childproof version - they work well (ours don’t have a thermostat - you just set the heat on a scale of 1-6 or something like that). My only complaint is they aren’t WiFi enabled, but I don’t see a lot of heaters with that feature (at least in this price range), I’m guessing for safety reasons.Overall great value for the price. My family is warm and happy.

I'm updating this review after having spoken with a manager. He understood my concerns, and offered a replacement with a model that uses the style of tip over protection our original unit has (in fact, its very like our original heater). I may take them up on this.But since that conversation, I've looked at this heater more closely, and while my concern is still there, its not as urgent as it was.This unit has a very stable base. It is very difficult to knock over. When we checked it out further, even though you can cause it to come back on once tipped over by pressing in the plunger button, there seems to be little heat. We need to test this out further.In use, it heats the space well. We were in subfreezing temperatures, snow and ice, in our RV for a few days. We used this during the day, and pretty much saved the propane furnace for the night. (We did have the furnance on during the day, but it was never triggered by the thermostat as the Vornado kept things comfortable.) We didn't even need to run the Vornado at full power. We are talking about a 38ft class A and it was comfortable from front to back.So I have to say, other than the tip over protection concern (a situation unlikely to gappen, but you don't want to be that 1 in a thousand), I am impressed with this unit.Need to test the restrictive airflow/overheat feature a bit more. If that really is not working, I'm getting this replaced.ORIGINAL REVIEW - tempered:I have been a customer of Vornado, using a heater and fans, for 2 decades. I always felt I could trust the safety features of their units to protect me and my property against mishaps caused by space heaters, such as preventing a fire if the heater is tipped over.But I question this design..Vornado has changed the way the tip over cutoff function works.Now there is a plunger button on the bottom that is pressed in when sitting on a surface. While that plunger-style button is pressed in, the unit will operate. When the unit is tipped over or picked up, there is no longer anything pushing on the plunger button from underneath, so it falls back down and all current us cut off. The unit stops working.BUT:If, WHILE THE UNIT IS LYING FACE DOWN after being tipped over, someone or something presses that plunger button back in, THE HEATER TURNS BACK ON forcing heated air against your carpet, floor, spilled papers, or other flammable material.So what happens if a child or a pet tips this over, and manages to lodge something against the button that then keeps it pressed in, allowing the heater to continue pumping out heated air against whatever flammable it fell onto?Why is this not designed to keep the heater turned off until it is returned to an upright position?We have another, smaller, much cheaper no-name brand forced air space heater that has a plunger button on the bottom as well, which works the same way, BUT THIS little heater ALSO DISENGAGES the plunger button while tipped over. If you press it in while it is tipped over, nothing happens. It does not turn back on until it is fully upright again..THAT is a PROPER tip over protection feature. I do not need to worry about our dog, or other mishap, circumventing the tip over protection feature.When I contacted the Vornado company about this, the initial person I spoke with seemed entirely unconcerned about the possibility their tip over safety feature could be so easily circumvented. He considered it such a remote possibility as to be improbable, and told me this plunger button is working as intended. He also said that the restrictive airflow/overheating protection would kick in and shut off the unit if somehow my scenario occured.How hot would things get before it shut off? He never told me. Would there be damage before it shut off? Would my carpet get scorched? My linolium discolored? What if the overheat feature failed?So I tested that feature. When I placed a towel over the back of the unit to block its air intake, it continued to run, and very quickly there was a burning smell. It never shut off. That feature didn't seem to work at all. So much for relying on this secondary backup safety cutoff.The cheap, little off-brand heater we bought to help get us through some very cold days, before this arrived, hands down wins in the safety department, and this Vornado (and I assume all modern Vornado heaters) falls prettumy far behind.If a little, cheap no-name heater manufacturer could foresee that the plunger button would need to be COMPLETELY disabled unless upright, and implemented such a solution, then Vornado most DEFINITELY can do so too in order to ensure no accidents can occur.BUT VORNADO CHOOSES NOT TO.I will no longer be a customer until this changes.Anyone who owns a Vornado heater with this feature, test this out for yourself, and then decide if it is worth the risk of damage or fire.