Mr Heater MH18B Portable "Big Buddy" Heater
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Mr Heater MH18B Portable "Big Buddy" Heater
Customer Review: Awesome stove
Summary: 5 Stars
This stove puts out instantaneous heat and along with the fan, it is distributed very evenly through out the room.Easy to put togrther and a breeze to use.Customer Review: BIG BUDDY IS MY BUDDY
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this heater a month ago to heat my garage 20x32 just over 600 sq ft well insulated. So far i have gone through about two 20# cylnders running the heat at least every night for 2-3 hours and on weekends 6-7 hours a day. The temp in the garage has never dropped below 35 deg, and from there it warms up to 50-55 degrees in about an hour running on high makes it warm enough to work. I have an ac adapter from radio shack pretty inexpensive less than $10.
All in all i would highly recommend the Big Buddy heater it works great with throw aways although you throw away more than empty cylnders compared to a 20# cylnder. I last bought a 40# cylnder, if that gets me through a month that is reasonable enough to get through the winter.
Customer Review: Beat the COLD!
Summary: 5 Stars
My best friend recommended to me to buy this heater for use when I'm out back giving my Beagles a cleaning after they come in from a hunt. I have a 10 foot by 10 foot shack with water and a hose and after washing them off the heater makes it easier to keep them warm while I dry them off. It also keeps me warm and makes this dirty job as nice as it can be. The dogs also like it because they stand in front of the heater while waiting to get dried. The fan helps move the heat around and I'm sweating by the time I get to the last dog so I turn it down to the medium setting. My dogs and I love this little heater.Customer Review: Best thing I've ever bought!
Summary: 5 Stars
My heavily retro-insulated 1920 NH colonial is heated with base-board heat supplied by an oil fired water boiler. Living alone now, and seeing oil prices exceeding $4.25/gallon this summer, I decided to get creative with space heaters. After a lot of research, I bought a Big Buddy for my downstairs 12x24 office and a Delonghi TRD0715T oil-filled radiator for my upstairs, 12x12 bedroom. Both have proven to be excellent choices.
To fire my Big Buddy, I drilled a small hole in the wall to the outside, just large enough to sneak the 12' regulated propane hose (accessory) outside and into a barbeque grill size propane tank. I built a little, enclosed stand for the propane tank so I could reach out a window to turn it off and on rather than have to go outside to do it. I've been keeping the rest of the downstairs at 50 degrees as I don't use the other rooms except to walk through to get to my office. In the morning, I fire my Big Buddy up to the max 18,000 btu and in 20 minutes the room is at 60 degrees. Then I turn the heater down to 9,000 btu for a half hour or so until the room is up to 65 degrees, then down to 4,000 btu until the room is at 70 degrees, and for the rest of the day I vary between 4,000 btu and just a pilot light. At a local propane dealer, I can get a 20 lb. barbeque tank filled for $10. I keep two barbeque tanks, so when one runs out of propane, I have another ready to go. So far I go through a tank about every 10 days. No mess, no fumes, no headaches, no problems. Between this heater and the excellent Delonghi heater in my bedroom, I have so far used 1/8 tank of heating oil since August, where I would otherwise by now have used more near 3/4 of my 275 gallon oil tank. Even as heating oil has dropped considerably in price since August, that's still a huge savings.
One downside of my Big Buddy is the installed fan is not only noisy but pretty useless. To compensate for this, I have a six inch fan propped up behind and toward the top of the heater to blow the rising heat around the room. My Big Buddy isn't thermostat controlled, but who cares? When the room is up to the temperature I want, I get up out of my chair once every couple hours or so and turn the heat control up or down, and for that minor inconvenience I save a small fortune on heating oil.
If you buy the Big Buddy, be sure to turn off your propane source and let your Big Buddy pilot light go out before you turn off the unit. Otherwise, enjoy the relatively inexpensive heat from this excellent powerhouse.
Customer Review: Big Buddy
Summary: 4 Stars
Great little heater! This thing puts out a lot of heat. I bought it for a backup when the power goes out but I've been using it a lot just to knock the chill off. I keep the heat pump set pretty low which is fine when I'm up moving about but when I sit down to read or watch tv it is a little cool. I fire this thing up for a little while to warm the room and I don't have to turn the heat pump up and heat up the whole house. I also bought one for my cabin.