Customer Reviews

Honeywell HZ-315 Quick Heat Ceramic Heater

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I bought this heater after seeing how highly rated it is- and you guys were right! This is the best little heater ever. I bought it to keep me warm in the bathroom (I have one of those awful new house designs where the master bathroom is completely open to the master bedroom.) It works great. Gets very hot or just warm thanks to the dial. The only down side is that there is no off switch- but it is just as easy to pull the cord out of the wall as it is to turn a switch off! Portable and can be taken from room to room in one hand.

I love this heater. I use it all the time at work and it keeps me warm and toasty. I love that it has a dial so that if you get too hot you can turn it down. It heats up super quick and turns itself on and off to keep the right temperature. Its nice and small and has a nice look to it too. I like it so much that I'm buying another one to keep my bathroom warm for when I take showers. Oh, and for the people that say there is no on/off switch, you just turn the dial all the way down to turn it off. The light stays on, but the heater will not come on if you have the dial all the way down. Trust me, I have it plugged in at work all the time.

We ordered it urgently since our living room was getting cooler.
-The HoneyWell heater is light and portable, it can be conveniently moved to different rooms.
-It's good for heating small room and perfect for heating up a cozy corner when you are reading a book.
-However the temperature dial is not calibrated (in C/F)
-It heats up ultra-fast. The iron-mesh get very hot & can be a hazard for kids.
-Little loud
-Perfect for wifes/husband who feel cold even in a heated room

This is the perfect little heater and I know space heaters as I own about 3 of them already. I use this one at work. We aren't supposted to have space heaters but it is soooo cold at work that I would be absolutely miserable without it. Because of the size, it's easy for me to keep this one out of sight. I keep it plugged in to its own surge protecting power strip so it doesn't ever disturb the other computers in the area. When I leave for the day, I can lock it up in one of my filing cabinets. I can't say enough good things about it. I love the thermostat feature, if I get too warm, it's easy to turn down. I just ordered a second one for my bathroom. If you need a tiny space heater that really warms you up, then this is the one!

This heater was the best of my 3 experiences with Honeywell. The heater actually worked for almost a year before dying. Below is my review of my Honeywell experiences:

Honeywell HZ2800BW Turbo Heater Fan
Enough is enough. I bought this heater and it failed within two weeks. When it fails, the light will come on but neither the heating element or the fan will work. Thankfully Amazon is awesome at returning products and they had another one in the mail before I even put this one in the mail to ship it back. The new one arrived and it ran for about a month before stopping. When it failed it failed in the same way as the first one. Since it was Spring, I just threw it away and took the loss.

Convinced that it must have just been a defective model of Honeywell, I ordered the HZ-315 Quick Heat Ceramic Heater. This one actually worked for almost one whole year before dying last night in the exact way the other two did. The moral to the story is this: Honeywell heaters are garbage. Unfortunately, I begin this whole Honeywell nightmare only after my Holmes heater died after 5+ years of it running night and day during the winter. SPEND THE EXTRA FEW DOLLARS AND BUY QUALITY WHICH IS NOT HONEYWELL.

I'm basically happy with this space heater.

Pros: Cheap and it works.

Cons: It's loud and it turns on intermittently according to your thermostat setting so it's constantly: OFF (quite) - ON (loud) - OFF (quiet) - ON (loud) ... etc and so it can be a little annoying if you don't have any other background noise going on.

I use this heater in my 26' RV. I use it when we are at a campground or RV park that has electrical hookups so that I don't have to run the propane furnace. The furnace is so loud it will wake me at night, but this little heater is pretty much silent.

The thermostat works great! It allows me to keep the interior of the RV at about 40-45 degrees in the winter to avoid condensation and freezing. Fortunately, my RV is well insulated (for an RV), so it doesn't have to run very often.

I also use the heater to put a load on my backup generator (for the house). Every month, I start the generator, let it warm up, then plug in the heater and turn it on. This puts a nice load on it, which is what you are supposed to do when you excercise a generator.

We have been using this heater for about four years and have had absolutely no problems with it. Someone mentioned that there is no on/off switch, but if you turn the thermostat knob all the way down, it turns the heater off completely.

I purchased this heater to add a little heat to my office, which luckily for me has a window, but unluckily for me, also has a draft. I've been very happy with the results! The built-in thermostat keeps the office at a steady temperature, which is perfect. It doesn't take up much space, which is also a bonus. Downsides: There is no off-switch, so I have to unplug it at the end of the day. That's not so great, because occasionally I forget if the blower is not actively running when I'm getting ready to leave. The noise level from the machine is reasonable, though certainly not silent. In summary, this model perfectly meets my needs. For the price and convenience, it is worth tolerating the minor downsides. And it was affordable. I'd definitely purchase this model again.
Update 11/26/06: I said I'd purchase this again, and now that I have a new drafty bedroom, I have just ordered this product again. I anxiously await its arrival this week.

I bought this heater for our upstairs bathroom that we really don't use except for showers and baths. We closed off the heat in that room and wanted something that would heat up fast and be able to keep us warm this winter while taking our showers. It was wonderful! It even had a frost watch feature on it so I bought one (at Wally World) for my dad who has troubles with his upstairs pipes freezing. I bought this on a Friday sale and was glad I did, but if I needed another one this is the exact one I would get - it's small but it is mighty!

I have never had an electric heater before so I wasn't sure what to expect. Especially when I heard so many horror stories about electric heaters starting home fires. However, I wanted a small heater to use on my legs and feet when I am sitting at my computer. Being that the heater is a Honeywell, I figued I couldn't gone wrong with it and I bought it on sale so the price was cheap.
I can not raved highly enough about this heater. It is so small and yet it heats up my whole bedroom, which I was not expecting. I can pick it up and take it to any room or place where I need it. It truely is the mouse that roared.
When I read others who reviewed this heater, their biggest complaint was that there is no off and on switch. This is true. But, I wouldn't want to leave it plugged in when I am not using it anyway...just to be on the safe side. Buy it you won't regret it.