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vornado VH2
I bought this as a gift for my mother in law. She has a new house with very high vaulted ceilings. We were trying to save on heat while still staying warm. She says she hasn't turned the vornado off since Christmas. It fills her great room with even heat and she loves it .The vornado is very quiet and cool to the touch. It is very easy to operate and we are both glad I bought it.
[Wednesday, January 07, 2009]
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Not For Us
I purchased the Vornado VH2 Heater, but I returned it to the store after a few days.
My wife and I owned a Lasko Ceramic Element 30" Pedestal heater for years, but this season it finally died. We chose the Vornado VH2 Vortex heater after reading some of the positive reviews.
We live in the Northeast, have kind of a drafty apartment and we try to keep the heat low or off to save energy. The space heater goes into whatever room we are in and we use it to heat that room while we are there. Or we turn it on in the bedroom in the morning while we get ready for the day.
After a few days, it was clear that the Vornado VH2 was not going to cut it. The unit blows heat, but it is very tepid compared to our other heater.
We did notice that the Vornado VH2 (as many positive reviews here have mentioned) gives a very ambient warmth - meaning that it seems to spread the heat about the room very evenly. However, be warned, it takes a loooong time for it to even raise the temperature a little bit.
I am confident in saying that this is NOT the heater for certain uses. For instance, if you have a home office and you like to use a heater to aim warmth your workstation area, this would not do the trick. Also, it isn't the heater for a fast warm-up. The Vornado VH2's big failure was in our morning routine. Usually, during the winter, we wake up, put on the heater, go into the bathroom to get ready and when return to the bedroom the heater has it nice and toasty. Well, the first morning using the Vornado was a shock - it felt as if nothing had changed in the room.
After a couple of days, I went out and bought another Lasko heater, (same model as we had before,) brought it home and did a side by side comparison. NO CONTEST. I immediately boxed up the Vornado and returned it.
*****On a safety note: The plug for the Vornado VH2 seemed to not sit well in the outlet. When I would go to unplug it after using it, I would notice that the plug would kind of be hanging down, just a little, out of the outlet. This doesn't seem to be the case with our new heater, or our old one.
[Wednesday, December 10, 2008]
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Defective ON/OFF switch
I bought a VH2 for an infants room.
It worked very well for a while.
Then the ON/OFF switch stopped working.
It is stuck in the ON position.
It can not be shut off unless it is unplugged.
This thing is a fire hazard.
I was lucky that I shut it off in time before it started a fire in our baby's room.
I called the Vornado company but they want $25 plus shipping to fix it.
All it needs is the switch.
I asked if I could just send back the control panel.
I am an electrician.
Not worth it!
I will never buy another Vornado product again.
They use cheap parts made in asia and then want to rip you off to fix it.
Why are so many electronic items made to just be disposable.
If it was just made with better quality it would last more than a couple of uses.
[Wednesday, November 26, 2008]
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