The winter season is coming which means, you need heat. You may be considering getting a small heater for your bedroom or another room that may not exactly have central heat. Before you do, read this article because there are some safety issues I have discovered with the Lasko air pushed heating unit.
My husband and I have a gas heater in the Living room and in our kitchen but the two downstairs bedrooms are stuck without any heat and with drafts coming from the windows; the rooms can get pretty cold at night.
For this reason, my husband and I decided to visit Wal-mart and purchase a heater. However, this heather purchase turned out to be a waste of time. We bought an air forced heater fan by Lasko for around $35.00 with hopes that we would sleep in a warm room.
When we got the heater home, my husband opened the box and pulled the heater out of the cardboard packaging. The heating unit was wrapped up in a plastic bag. He cut through the plastic then he pulled out the heating unit from its wrapping. Robbie then set the fan on the dresser. Next, he un-wrapped the power cord and then turned the heater on.
He set the timer and the temperature to 75 degrees. The timer had been set for the max of seven hours. At 9 pm, I crawled beneath my very clean cotton blankets and began to sleep. Unfortunately, I woke up as I began to shiver. I looked at the clock , and the face read 1 o’clock am. Surely, that was not seven hours. I got up and put my flip flops on then walked around the bedroom to where the heater was located.
The red light was on showing me that there was power. I pushed the power button like the instruction booklet had said to reset the heater. Nothing would happen. I turned the power supply off in order to shut the heater off. The heater did shut off. Then, I counted to 60 and pushed the button to turn the power supply back on. The red light appeared again indicating the unit was on and yet I pressed the power button the machine would not work.
After about an eight hour rest, I turned the heater on again. This time after pressing the power button to turn it on, the heater lit up. I tried to set the fan onto a lower setting. I was successful with the lower setting but after five minutes, the Lasko heating unit shut itself off again and I saw sparks from the inside of the fan when the unit shut off.
The sparks coming from this fan created some concern, so I did not try to turn the Lasko heater back on until my husband returned home. Then once he returned home from a job that he was doing, he took a look at the heater and the unit shut off around the same time frame for him too.
We tried to get the heater working two more times after and it still would shut off and spark. I read in the instruction manual. The manual says the heater may shut off once the room has become the desired temperature. However, the room was cold and the heater was near a window where a cool draft was coming through.
My husband and I had to make another trip to Wal-mart wasting our gas insisting that the heater not be put back on the shelves for the safety of another consumer that may want to purchase it. I cannot give this product a good or bad review due to its one time experience. However, I will not want to use a Lasko product again anytime soon and I would suggest that you thoroughly check out the product before you purchase it at any store!