Sengoku Indoor & Outdoor Kerosene Heater, 23,500 BTU, Portable Use, White

Wish I had bought one sooner! This product has great safety features, works well & is compact enough to work around. Quiet operation and excellent heat output. If I use it with temps over 30°F, it actually is too warm for comfort. On those nights in the teens, the entire front of the house is maintained at 69° with the bedrooms at optimal sleep temps! I saved so much on my electric bill this year!

This heater puts out a ton of heat and is very simple to use. I would caution anyone buying this to keep the instructions manual and follow it very carefully, however all use and maintenance procedures are very simple. This thing works extremely well to heat my detached garage that is about 1,000 square feet. Used it the other night and it heated my entire garage from 40F to over 70F in about two hours.

Our son loves this heater. It's bigger than we thought, but it heats his house very nicely.

It gets the job done. And constantly heats as long as it has kerosene.

Needed something to heat up my off grid cabin quickly on those cold winter nights and that doesn't run on electricity. This heater fit the bill and lived up to expectations. Easy to fill with a battery operated syphon and puts out a ton of heat.I lit the heater outside for the first go and then moved it inside. Only smell the kerosene when the unit is turned off and it's not bad at all...in fact it's a lot less than I expected.Heat projects upward so my ceiling fan comes in handy to circulate the heat effectively. I'm finding that I now turn the heater on early in the morning vs using the woodstove to take the chill off mainly due to the convenience factor.Kerosene has to be K1 and my cost is about $25 per 5 gallon jug so this is a more expensive option compared to wood forsure but cheaper for me than using small propane cannister heaters to warm my cabin up upon arrive on cold winter nights.Handle is the only bad thing about the heater as it's too flimsy so you have to be careful when lifting the unit when it's full of kerosene.I like this heater so much that I'm likely to purchase another one for use in another part of the cabin.-------------------------UPDATE Feb 2015Warning...don't let this heater run out of kerosene. I made the mistake of leaving the heater running one morning when it was almost out of fuel and didn't realize it was on until I smelt the kerosene smell. Turned it off and later realized there was a layer of soot on my walls and ceiling throughout my 1100sqft cabin. This resulted in a major cleaning job especially on my new window blinds.

This heater is our winter savior! It doesn't just heat the room, but does it in a much faster manner, thus creating nice and comfortable leaving environment when it's most needed. We usually use this heater in order to boost up the heating procedure and, once the temperature has been reached the desirable level, we turn it off. That helps to save the level of oxygen in the room, to save the fuel and the electricity. Another good feature of this heater is that it moves the excess moisture form the leaving space. We leave near the ocean and, in winter time, severe fogs, strong winds and ocean mist get "into the bones". The heater makes the room warm and cozy.The wick should be serviced regularly, according to instruction. It really helps maintaining the flow of the flame - and the life of the filter itself.Some people comment on the kerosene odour, and it's, indeed, evident during the refilling and at the moments of igniting-warming-up and of the extinguishing the heater. But sometimes some regular cooking brings more fume than this device does. And it, as well as the smell of the kerosene, goes away with a brief room ventilation. I personally do not find the smell of the kerosene much offensive. It's, of course, my personal opinion. Once it's heated, there hardly any smell at all. The same goes with the intervals of no usage: the canister is quite well isolated. The electronic ignition works well only with the fresh, new wick. Otherwise the spark eventually stops reaching the wick. I have expected that form the start and found that, even after proper wick adjustment, the ignition isn't as reliable as with the new one. But igniting the heater with the match is no hassle at all.

Item packed great. Lousy instructions for assembling, also found the hardware cheap. Screws stripped out on the brackets that hold the wire safety cage to the heater. The 2 "C" Chinese made batteries were dead on arrival. The unit lit correctly 1 time, after that the glow plug is not working properly. All in all it produces good heat. I use it in a garage. I also am using the manual lighting method by using a long reach BIC BBQ lighter. To get the heater started you have to be pretty flexible and able to either sit on the floor or bend over to get too the controls. I am still looking for a new glow plug but cannot find one. I do not recommend this product unless you are up to playing with it. I do not recommend this for any senior citizens.

Assembly was easy and the heat output is fantastic!