duraflame® 3D Infrared Quartz Electric Fireplace Stove Heater, Black

Absolutely perfect but you need a very long Philips screwdriver to screw legs on. They are extremely difficult to reach and a pair of strong hands are necessary. Afterwards you will find this heater delightful, quiet, beautiful flame pattern. I have an older model with a lousy switch for temperature control that goes on & off about 5 times before it actually turns off the heat. This one has a much better electronic switch that works the way it should. I am running it all day in a large family room in a cold time in Central West Florida. It is heating at the 1500 or high watt lever for about 30 minutes, then turned down to 1000 and it keeps my large area at about 70 degrees and is off more than on. I find this device well made, beautiful looking. It also has open side large vents and the fire looks absolutely real with flams from anywhere! The fire itself is as bright as you could want it, and is also adjustable with a high quality control like the thermostat uses. The switches light up so you know which mode is on and the device that scrolls for flame is quiet and unheard with no squeaking or rolling sounds. It is almost impossible to hear the fan blowing and is extremely quiet even only 6 feet away. This will be a good heater for the large area I use daily and the older one will be places in the master bedroom. I also told my boss at work and he will buy 2 of these; one for his office and 1 for mine. At 36 degrees outside you will never know it in this home and I am very happy with Duraflame design. They are a good company and their subsidiary follows there rules perfectly. This is a great unit. Case closed! Ray C

I love this fireplace! Item as described! I was needing it to help heat a room and it works great! I love how the flame looks toowith the brick backing..

If you’re looking for something easy to set the atmosphere for those cold mornings and chilly evenings, this checks almost all boxes. After looking through a bunch of this fireplace type heaters, with price and overall realistic look in mind, I’ve decided upon this one due to its simple look as compared to the gaudy others, the trusted Duraflame name, and being able to view the fire from all angles due to the see through grate on the sides. The fireplace was a bit low sitting to be viewed across the entire room, so we used some bed risers to prop it up a few more inches. Since the heating element and the only hot area comes from below, as long as you don’t place anything else below it, the heat coming from there and slighlty on the risers will be okay. Another little modification we made involved a little hacking to the visual fire source’s colored bulbs, blue in particular. If you enjoy some blue in your flame, you can skip this step, but for us the blue looked less like a calming fireplace and more like the police were outside, so we removed the rear panel and unplugged the blue bulbs. The whole process was slighlty annoying, but only required a Phillips head and took a few minutes, a bit more trying to figure out the exact wiring below. The installation of the legs was far more tedious than this, so if you make it past the legs, you can do this too, I believe in you! Anyone needing strong heat for areas that are extremely cold, I’d recommend looking elsewhere, unless you will be using this for a little extra heat and atmosphere and are relying on your home’s larger heater as the primary heating source. This will definitely add some heat, but won’t bring the fire. Based on Hot Ones, this would be a 4-6, definitely not The Last Dab. PROS: • High-Quality & Realistic • View Fire From All Angles • Adjustable Heat w/ No Heat Option CONS: • Not great for extreme cold • Heat take a bit to warm a room • Legs assembly isn’t the easiest • Needs minor hacking for truest realistic flame color To improve this product I would recommend removing the blue color bulbs from the fireplace all together as it looks more less like a relaxing fireplace and more like the police have been called to a bonfire. Another improvement would be a better heating element to heat more thoroughly. Overall, I would highly recommend this product to anyone looking for a small stovetop looking fireplace to boost a room’s overall atmosphere and provide a little extra heat to those cozy moments at home.

Great product, on low... It's still really toasty wherever you're heating & doesn't make the electric bill skyrocket. Built to last, reasonably priced, easy to assemble, they send you the tools. Quiet

Works well. Temperature got down to 3°f, real feel of -10°f, and the heater still kept up. There was no chill in the house at all. I have recommended this to several people in real life

Bought less than 1 year ago and it already quit. It is not run constantly either. We usually turn it on for night time use in bedroom in winter months and turn it off in morning. Two days ago I entered bedroom and something smelled odd. I thought it was heater which had only been run about 3 times this winter. So I shut if off since night temps were not going too low. Last night I went to turn it on and the 1500 watt choice would not turn on no matter how high I adjusted the temp. The flicker flame wasn't working either. My only choice left for heat was the 1000 watt button. Real bummer. Only 1 winter season of use and it's done. I though DuraFlame was better than this!!

I spent a good bit of time researching options and decided on this Duraflame model. This one is in more of the budget/competitive price tier, but it offers some great qualities that others don’t. First off, the flame effect looks quite real. This was highest on my list of features wanted. Second, you can adjust the flame effect from low to high. My video shows it at about 3/4 brightness. And third, there are switches for either low or high heat settings. Some reviewers have complained about the blue lights causing the flames to not look as real. I don’t mind the blue color mixed in when considering the overall pleasing look of the flames. The unit is made mostly of metal, which is a nice touch. It’s also very light and easy to move around. I wish it was a little larger, but it is large enough in the nook where we are using it. We’re very happy with this product.

My updated review for this heater: This Duraflame heater stopped working SIX DAYS after the return window closed. One of the toggle switches stopped working, it will not stay "toggled" and just flops back off. I am certainly not happy about this development since this replaced a heater that sprung its toggle switch and stopped working.. I deliberately picked Duraflame thinking it is an established company, so the quality would be better than a heater made in China. Now I have to call the company to deal with it. There is a one year warrantly. I still have the box, but last week I threw out the syrafoam pieces, so that creates a problem boxing it up. I am so disappointed and I will update again once I speak to Duraflame on how to deal with this problem. My first review for this heater when it arrived: First the pros, it puts out a nice bank of heat which warms up a cold area quickly. This is what I needed for the far end of a long room that is always several degrees cooler than the other end where the house furnace blows warm air. So success! Now for the cons, the flames look great from the front glass door. I am not as thrilled with the view from the sides towards the back wall, not as realistic looking as the view from the front. This is my fourth free standing electric fireplace heater and so I am becoming a pro at attaching the legs to these units. I have two Duraflame stoves, the one before this is a larger model Duraflame, and two others made in China. The power plugs on the ones made in China get hot with use, but the other two plugs do not. It is too bad that these companies cannot come up with a shipping box that protects the legs in shipment. However, having seen the mangled boxes than are delivered at times makes me realize that it would be difficult to have the legs attached before shipping without snapping off. Sadly, the legs for this Duraflame were quite difficult to attach due to where the screws need to be attached to the unit. I have very small hands with slim fingers and yet I had to use needle nose pliers to put the back screw (of the three screws needed for each leg) into the hole in order to be tightened. I have a ratchet type phillips screw driver that works with my drill bits, but the handle of this screw driver was too thick to be used to tighten the screws, so I had to use a regular phillips screw driver for two of the screws. It was a pain to attach the legs, but once it is done that is it. The screw that attaches the door handle kept clinging to the door magnets, so I had to use needle nose pliers to insert that screw into the screw hole, too. That recessed screw hole is difficult to get to in order to position the screw in the hole, but again once it is done that part is over. All in all it is a great stove once the legs and door handle are installed. I took one star off due to the difficulty encountered once I opened the box. My hope is that this electric heater lasts, my first one (made in China) was great until a toggle switch sprung making it impossible to turn on. That one is waiting until I find a repair person who can replace the toggle switch because the realistic flames are great on it despite where it was made.

Had a cheaper electric fire place before in my dinning room, after a few months it became noisy and didn't quite do the job even on full heat. The Duraflame will heat my open dinning room even on low setting. The infrared quartz heat is very enjoyable, soothing and quiet. Very glad I made this purchase! You will need a 6" Phillips screw driver to put the legs on. If you don't have one, order one. After that you will enjoy this, garrateed!

We bought this for my 12 year olds room, it is really cold in the winter. He loves it and sometimes in the summer he just runs the lights because he thinks they look so cool.

The fireplace effect has stopped working. Probably just needs a new bulb, but after just over three months of use, not being used all the time? When heat is turned on with lower element, blows coolish air. With high element still gives off heat. Have been heating with a quartz heater instead, cost $24.99 on sale and is doing a better job. This heater was a disappointment.

Cute but doesn’t give out heat for a small room plus is noisy