This may be because their previous forced-air system ductwork had or developed leaks, or something was wrong with air-flow on their system (clogged filters !!) I also have a $39.99 portable oil radiator heater that I purchased from Lowes. Keith Schroeder (author) from Wisconsin on November 01, 2011: It looks like we are starting another season of the heater scam. Was informed that my order was not in the system as of yet, was instructed to call back after 24 hrs. It is the wrong measurement for electric heat. If a portable electric heater serves your needs, a low-cost model will kick out the same heat as an expensive model. THIS is the reason the heating companies have zone heating. EdenPURE Classic CopperPLUS Heater $272.00 $399.00 Best Sellers EdenPURE 3000 Whole House Air Purifier by AirFree $299.00 $374.00 EdenPURE GEN50 Infrared Heater $297.00 $399.00 EdenPURE GEN40 Heater $247.00 $447.00 EdenPURE Bio SpeedCLEAN Cordless Vac - Model XL200 $249.00 $299.00 EdenPURE GEN21 EdenPURE All Season Heater $279.00 $447.00 CLAIM: With the EdenPure the temperature will not vary in any part of the room. are surprised when they experience comfortable, cost-efficiently operating systems in other manufactured homes. TV Shows. I also agree with your opinion on products sold by celebrities. And Bob Vila?he seems to be trading his trusted reputation for money. There not trying to rip you off or scam you. Had I done that, I believe, without using a calculator, that cost would be $180.00 a month for just the heat on one floor of my home. This scam reminds me of Obama: you can pretty much lie and say anything you want for a long time and get away with it ! First of all, because it is silent. I have not used it consistently 24 hours a day. I did buy a small Pelonis ceramic heater 20 years ago for $100, and it still works. I have natural gas heat and now I like it even more. Bobby Burkett ( Logan Huffman) is a promising quarterback for a struggling high-school football team. And, BTW, author of this site, it is SQUARE FEET, not CUBIC as you stated. zp. A 1500-watt heater will produce at most 5000 BTUs. You are just cutting costs by heating a smaller areasomething you could have done without a $400 space heater. I was just about to order an edenpure heater. I purchaser 2 EP 2 years ago and they work fine in my 1900sq foot home.I bought them to stop those money grubbing gas companys.I read all you're complaints,and no one had the common sense to understand some people may just want to get the oil money suckers out of their lives. Bill Burkett lives in Boerne, TX; previous cities include Helotes TX and San Antonio TX. In fact, I had to get up and turn down the heat later as I was sweating. The number one reason not to buy a Bio Tech Research Eden Pure is people just like you and me on this site have given specific factual examples being abused after the sale by things which should have been disclosed before the sale. The key to these are you heat the rooms you are living in during the day so you use your furnace less. I bought 2 refurbished EP heaters 8 years ago and both are still working just fine. I guess two guys with a beard is supposed to lend your overpriced heater more credibility. Have i used them. So, I turned on the EdenPure, had it on high, which I didn't need to do, and my upstairs is varying from a toasty 70 degrees to 67 at the farthest areas from the EdenPure. Why pay 400.00 for a space heater,when you can go to Home Depot and buy a elecric heater for 30.00-60.00 that will heat the room better than the "bulbs in a box" heater will.Edenpure is just ripping people off! The American Free Enterprise system only works if we work it. My wife and I have found that our electric and gas power bills have gone down by more than half, each (we have a gas furnace) since we started using our Life Smart brand infrared heater. I purchased a gen4 2 months ago and could not find I was saving any money since Im all electric.I have notified the co I want to return the heater for a refund and they keep giving me the run around about sending me an RMA and the prepaid UPS slip to ship the unit back to them.after reading some of the other complaints I'm wandering if I will ever get a slip. You just lay it loose on top so nothing touches it. A good quality heat pump with good ductwork WILL outperform straight resistance electric heat. Loves them! It is an older model. Is the $300 Edenpure any better than a regular $20 electric space heater for any purpose? My heat gun is about 5 times hotter than my wife's hairdryer. The group was formed in 1958 at the old Turtle Creek High School, calling. If I was Bob Vila I would not put my name on the product if they cannot get anyone to anwser the customer service number or even return your calls. Any electric heater is 100% efficient. I remodeled a mobile home and replaced the insulation and added drywall. Since the same heater at Amazon is under $100 my guess is they lowered their price to compete better. I am lucky to have a couple of working ones, they do help, but after reading all the electric experts and cost of cheaper 1500w heaters, I must sadly say, I have been scamed. I plugged it in this spring to take the chill out. xc. Complain all you want the heater works well. Needless to say, i WILL NOT be buying any expensive heating units with misleading claims of their efficiency and lower monthly savings. Here is a great explanation of what you should look for (that and a 'wide mouth'): http://www.biophysicscenter.com/infrared-heaters.h Hope this helps!! The problem lays, as always, in Sales and Marketing (or Greed and Misleading), that makes EdenPure a hype from the cost vs.value point of view. The big SCAM not mentioned is the advertised life of the Edenpure US-1000 or Gen4 heaters. Glad I read all these posts before wasting my money on Edenpure though. turning you main source of heat down for the whole house and just warming up the areas you are in with the Eden Pure heater. ELECTRICAL ENGINEER on December 16, 2012: First of all, 120vac appliances are very inefficient compared to 220vac. Has anyone specifically gone from a traditional electric space heater (ONLY) to an Eden and found an improvement in their electric bill? Consider Choosing a Different Electric Heater. If it heats, cools, moves air or water, we do it. Unplugged edenpure. The criticism must have impelled these heater hucksters of Suarez Corporation Industries (which peddles both the "Amish"Heat Surge heaters and the Eden Pure heater) to back off the fable about Jones and his "cured copper." Best of luck. Vince DeAntonio ( D. B. Sweeney) is a former college football offensive coordinator, who abruptly resigned five years earlier, and has now become coach at the high school. I used to like him on this old house , but like many of the over the hill broke celebs. I'm paying $0.17 per KWH, or $2.04 for an 8 hour run per day. I tune mine up every year with the drop of oil and a little compressed air. is too low you end up, cutting in a supply grill to bring the temp. Whether it saves more money than all the others is not the issue. Even a child knows that hot air rises. You can put a sheet of copper in front of your heater and buffer the heat with an electric heater. HOWEVERand this is where I have to now state after research of many heaters, this Gen4 costs .25 an hour to heat. The EdenPURE portable electric heater is a scam by my count. It does heat evenly. 00 EdenPURE GEN40 Heater $247. Now if your heating a whole home that uses gas or electric and close off several rooms and used the eden pure to heat a few rooms, sure you will save money. Gas burners are a hazard in a barn with hay even if only in a side utility room. The air movement inside an Edenpure heater is blowing the coldest air on the base of the bulbs and the bulbs cycle on and off frequently. I am glad you enjoy your EdenPURE heater. Received a reconditioned unit a week ago. By not heating the unoccupied rooms of your home, you will cut your heating bill. You cannot beat basic rule of physics saying that energy does not come from nowhere, and does not disappear to nowhere. EdenPURE claims stretch the truth. He is just whoring for the Edenpure company (or whatever their corporate identification is). AND I MEAN THAT SINCERELY. I don't know about most of you, but in the coldest 3 months of the year here, my bill runs over $500. Are the so called experts on here thick or something. Put an infrared heater in your bedroom. at a fraction of the cost,with the same heat output a far fewer failure rates. So I am not really surprised. 4) Contrary to this article and many of its posts, the reason why infrared heaters have been so successful is not because of slick marketingprimarily it has been word of mouth. PERIOD. Yes other heaters have safety cut off switches but there not much good if your sofa has set on fire because the fire was too close. Now, that may seem cold to some of you, but no other heater identical to this one is going to do any better and if they are not this safe, you would have to have your central heat on. The EdenPURE heater is several times as expensive as other infrared electric heaters. I have a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, so I can tell you with precision that EdenPure's claims are false and misleading. A few comments are concerned with my personal experience with EdenPURE. I have a ceramic cube heater I bought 25 years ago for $19.95 that will. Those heated water molecules will warm the human body faster than air molecules. I have been in this house for 10 years, so in 10 years, I have spent just in those 3 months alone $15,000. A radiant barrier works best in the attic. A UNIT is $1000. Lucinda from Michigan on December 03, 2012: I got my 1st heater in nov.20011 and used it for 5 months and up for the summer I got it out on oct.25 20012. Want a great laugh? Directions to Burkett Heating & Cooling Authorized Dealer & Servicer We are authorized to install, repair, and maintain heating & cooling systems manufactured by some of the most renowned companies in the world. There are millions of happy customers who are telling their friends. You suffer from the "curse of knowledge" (having a bias based on what other people have taught you) . Click a location below to find Bill more easily. Plus, as someone else said, there are varied types of heat. Enjoyed reading all the above comments, all valid points, but with all the back and forth opinions, I feel like I've been watching a tennis match. I first spent a few dollars on insulation(extra)it paid off! Sorry about the math confusion, but I really did mean cubic feet, not square feet. It doesn't mater what's inside the box. to produce those BTUs. But, although our gas savings decreased our electric usage went up and we noticed about a $4 a month savings. FACT: Nonsense. Saying you might cut your heating bill in half is a lie. It's clear that you have not only taken the bait, but swallowed the hook. Certainly the bedrooms are cooler, but remember it is a zone heater not meant to warm the entire area of 1250 sq ft, although the bedrooms are not cold. A btu IS a btu, weather you use oil, wood, propane, electricity, gasoline, kerosene, camel dung, or a candle to make the heat. Zone heat is just that whether you use a single zone heater or have your central system set up that way. I will not call this a scam. I'll definitely buy another. I'm absolutely thrilled with my unit. Answer: You will need to review your homeowner's policy to see if this heater is covered. She points out their parents had electrc heat in a double-wide. The person who stated the baseboard is just as efficient may be right about it being as efficient, but only in the sense that it heats the room. Well it depends on what version you get. I am ashamed that, as a scientist I didn't think through the physics of Edenpure's claims. ft. I just received an ad in the mail for a Comfort Furnace, Infrared Heater, that has all the same claims as the Eden Pure and selling for $329.00 (sale price) and a 3 yr warranty. If you read it carefully, it never really claims that the Eden Pure heater is a miraculous heat source. Many have been running now for well over 5 years and run almost constantly all winter long. bill burkett heaters. Now she is crying the blues because she could have applied the outrageous price of the heaters and their exhorbitant use of electricity, to her regular heat bill. Frame homes use a radiant barrier as a film on the foam insulation on the outside of the home. Edenpure heaters are CRAP. Of course, I was always skeptical, since their full page ads with lots and lots of "information" never mentions the heat output of the unit nor how much electricity it consumes. 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