Fire Sense 01775 Performance Series Patio Heater With Wheels 50,000 BTU Output Electronic Ignition System Portable Outdoor Propane Heater – Unpainted Stainless Steel

Spend $50 More & Buy The Deluxe Fire Sense Heater!
I was extremely disappointed in this product. It is absolutely not worth it! The parts are poorly made. It was almost impossible to put the heat shield together since the small nuts & bolts were not long enough to fit through 3 pieces of metal. I honestly had to wrestle the heat shield on the ground, and take it apart numerous times, since it all never lined up properly. When I finally did get the entire unit together, the ignition switch would not work, and the heater’s main burner would not light up. After numerous attempts to make it work, I boxed it up and sent it back. To give you some sense of what a pain it was to put this heater together, the same day as I put the patio heater together, I also assembled a Weber Gas Grill. My father and I had more trouble putting the patio heater together than we did the finely crafted Weber Grill! Now with a new beautiful grill and no patio heater, I was going to order a patio heater from Restoration Hardware since I thought they would offer a higher quality product. What I discovered when looking at their specs, the heater they offered was actually the Fire Sense Deluxe Patio Heater offered on Amazon for $50 more then this originally ordered heater. Restoration Hardware offered the Deluxe heater for $449, but did include a cover with it. I opted to order the unit from Amazon at $304.00 and it arrived yesterday. I immediately noticed the quality of parts is much higher, and the heat shield went together without a glitch, also better designed as it has fewer pieces. Overall this new Deluxe heater went together smoothly, except for one MAJOR flaw in the directions! The Deluxe Heater stand is not weighted, and there is a plastic unit on the bottom that needs be filled with sand. You should fill the plastic tote as your first step before doing anything else. I put the entire heater together & then was going to fill the plastic bottle at the end, but with the weight of the sand, I could not re-attach it (I was working by myself this time). I ended up having to take the heater apart again, so I could wrangle the base and attach the sand filled weight. The directions do not say anything about filling the plastic tote! My Deluxe Heater starts right up & provides excellent heat range!! The moral of this story is, spend $50 more and get the Deluxe Patio Heater, forget about this shoddy unit!

Good product
We had these outside this past weekend at 28 degrees and they held their own. They were plenty hot. Don’t sit too far away as the heat only travels so far. Assembly was not bad. The most difficult part was the aluminum top. Those sucked to screw together. I’m sure someone has a trick on how to do it more efficiently that I did. Keep a spare tank or 2 around as the propane freezes. Not a product issue, just how propane works.

So, here’s the issue. I searched online and compared features of about 10 of these types of products. I could have purchased one for almost half the price from Canadian Tire, about 5 minutes from my house, but out of the all the reviews, most said the igniter doesn’t work. This item had mostly good reviews and it claimed to be 18 feet of heat and a commercial version.Well, the igniter doesn’t work. The battery is in correctly but there isn’t even a clicking noise to tell me its attempting to ignite the burner. So, I’m going to have to take this thing apart and try to find the problem, and if I can’t, I will have to do what everyone else does and use a long trigger lighter for candles and BBQ’s.No way there is 18 feet diameter heating as it suggests on the ordering page.I do not like the dial on it because there is no clear indication of what is OFF and what is ON. The only clear line is the line of calibration.Looks nice, is a little better quality than some of the local versions, BUT, the extra weight is from putting water in the base, not from better material.Oh yes, in the instructions, it tells you that most of the parts are pre-assembled. NOTHING is PRE-Assembled!!!!!!!!!!In final, the item works but only in a small area where my deck couches and chairs are, but it doesn’t reach even 10 feet, where at least it could temporarily keep people a bit warm in the winter when they get out of the hot tub, at least until they did off and put on a robe, which is primarily what this was purchased for.Regards,Glenn