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Vornado MVH Whole Room Vortex Heater

  • Life’s too short to live with that one room that never quite gets warm enough
  • Three heat levels (750 watts, 1125, or 1500), or four if you count “off”
  • The outside doesn’t get hot and it shuts off when tipped over: yay, this space heater won’t kill you!
  • Fan is quieter than the fans at a Minnesota Timberwolves game (because not many people go to watch that basketball team, is the joke there)
  • Stands a little over 10 inches tall: about the length of a mature Hispaniolan woodpecker, if that helps
  • Five-year warranty makes other companies’ shorter warranties look shriveled and weak
  • Model: EH1-0091-43 (All of Vornado’s electric heaters start with “EH1”. So far, so good. Then we get a hyphen, then a four-digit code where the product lines diverge, then another hyphen, then a two-digit code for specific models. But if the length of the codes is always the same, what purpose do the hyphens serve? Wouldn’t you always know which digits signified which code? Or, to put it another way, if the hyphens divide the three codes, why do we need extraneous zeroes to keep the middle code at four digits? You can have your zeroes or (if you insist) you can have hyphens, but not both. Are we making sense here?)
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Heaters gonna heat.

You’re not going to choose a space heater because it’s more powerful. They all produce heat the same way, by using the electricity from the wall socket to heat up some metal elements inside. And they’re all limited to the amount of electricity they can pull from that wall socket: in North America, that’s 1500 watts.

So they have the same wattage to work with. By now, all the decent ones have learned the same efficiencies in converting that wattage to heat. The one big heat-delivery innovation that space heaters have ever had - adding a fan to circulate the heat around the room - is pretty widespread, too. Throw out the few outliers that don’t have a fan and you’re still left with a ton of choices.

You’re not going to choose a space heater because it’s safer. Not anymore, anyway. The inferno-prone horrors of Mom and Dad’s first apartment, those tin death boxes that were basically like balancing a toaster oven upright on the carpet, those are gone. They’re all pretty much totally safe now, with the tip-over protection and automatic shut-off featured on this Vornado here.

So how do you know which space heater to buy? What are the differences? What should you look for?

You might choose a space heater because it’s quieter. Space heaters should be felt and not heard. Props to Vornado for figuring out a way to stand out from the crowd. Vornado heaters like this one are widely and correctly known to be easier on the ears than other space heaters. We tried this one. Purrs like a kitten.

You might choose a space heater because it’s more reliable. This particular Vornado line has more than 900 Amazon reviews, with 61% of them being five-star, and an average rating of 4.1 stars. That’s a lot of satisfied Vornadoans. And just in case you get a lemon, it’s covered with a 5-year warranty. Other companies just offer one year, maybe three if you’re lucky. What good is a space heater if it craps out on you after two, three, or four winters?

You might choose a space heater because it’s better looking. Matter of taste, of course. But to our eyes, anyway, the sawed-off rounded pyramid shape and brushed-metal finish grill on this one strikes the balance a space heater should have: easy not to notice, but interesting when you do.

You might choose a space heater because it’s a better deal. And, well, y’know, that’s how we stay in business.

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