Dyson Hot + Cool Jet Focus AM09 Fan Heater, Black/Nickel

Let's face it - the design of this heater is uber sexy and you're paying for it - but you are also paying for a quality product that does just what it says it will do. The major advantage is a design which provides excellent heat without the fear of setting everything around your space heater on fire. It is also a unit that can be touched accidentally and will not see you (or your children or pets) walking away with scorched fingers, paws or fur. The remote is intuitive and easy to use and the ability to control the dynamics of the airflow (focused narrow output or wide spread of air) is clever and very practical. I live in an older brick building with an open floor plan, old windows and less than optimal insulation. My home is heated by water source heat pumps (essentially a fancy name for an in-ceiling air conditioner that uses the compression of refrigerant to provide heat as well as cooling). These units are efficient and heat steadily, but not near at the rate of other heating devices such as a gas forced hot air furnace or baseboard radiant heating. I use the Dyson to fill in the gaps as my heat pumps bring the air mass of the house up to temp. Because the unit can tilt its head up or down (this is a position set manually), you can wash air across a cold floor or push air upward if need be. For maximum effect, set the fan to oscillate with a wide spread of the air stream...you will feel the ambient temperature of your room increase rapidly. The unit can be set for a certain room temperature (obviously this works best in an enclosed room vs. an open space) and will cycle on and off as the temperature is achieved. The fan is relatively quiet, even at high speed. I've read complaints about fan noise but I suspect this is coming from some very PICKY people...this is among the quietest fans or space heaters I've ever come across. The whole thing is pretty much set it and forget it and within no time it does exactly what it sets out to do.

This heater is crazy expensive. It is 10x more expensive than my other space heater at home. So is it 10x better? I have been using this for a few weeks and my first impression is....yes! I am so surprised. The cheap heater I have at home tends to blow heat that is too hot. I keep it close by because it's freezing in the mornings, and within 5 minutes I have to face it the other way or else turn it off, and then of course, it gets too cold, so I have to reach over and turn it back on, over and over again. The dyson somehow mysteriously solves this problem. I place it right next to my feetI and it just feels pleasantly warm all the time. It does not get too hot. It turns off when it reaches the preset temperature, and keeps the room just right. It is so comfortable and my legs, directly in front of the heater, do not get all dry and itchy like they do with the cheap heater. The remote is useful and it sticks by magnet to the top of the heater when not in use, so you won't lose it. I am so pleasantly surprised. This thing is a winner!Edit: I actually do have one complaint...the on switch is a tiny red light at the base of the heater that is hard to see. Since the heater stops blowing when it reaches the preset temperature, if it is not currently blowing, sometimes I do not notice it is still on when I walk away. I have accidentally left it on all day. When I came back into the room, the room was pleasantly warm, just right, not too hot, and nothing was burning or overheating, which is GOOD. But I would have preferred to save energy (and peace of mind) and turned it off when I was done with it. So you just to remember that quiet thing is still on and turn it off yourself, knowing that is is sometimes hard to see that it is still on.

I have a basement (roughly 1100 sqft) that gets about 15 degrees cooler than the main floor in between summer and winter when the HVAC isn't running as much. I was worried that this would basically be a warm fan, but that's just the immediate effect after turning it on. Given maybe a n hour (and especially after a few hours) the heater kicks into a lower gear and my basement is cozy.The first time I used it, I actually turned the heat to 78 thinking I should make it kick out more heat, but by that afternoon the basement was warmer than the main floor, so I set it to the same temperature as the main floor and it's quite comfortable.The basement does use 4x6s in the walls as is fairly common now for extra insulation, so I doubt you'd get the same effect in a poorly insulated basement, or even in a garage in the winter when it gets to below freezing and the door opens multiple times a day. However it works perfectly for my needs.Additionally, the heat it pumps out is rather comfortable, the fan does not blow very hard (I mostly don't feel it) and it doesn't dry out the air. The fan itself is rather quiet, you can hear it but it shouldn't bother you. It's quite safe for children, my 2yo is obsessed with it so I made sure it didn't get too hot, (You should do the same before you let your kids or pets near it). Finally, it is rather attractive. I was a bit hesitant on other models of heaters because they looked like something you'd see in a retro 1970s home or a college kids dorm, but I rather like the look of this one especially for the effect.