Onlyfire Outdoor Fire Pit, Patio Heater wood pellet heater, FP042

Love the look of this heater! Not the best heat radiance but while it misses that mark it definitely makes up for it in ambiance! The flame is very hypnotic and cool to watch while warming up! Well made too but you will need something below to catch ash from making a mess. I also attached a chimney flue spark arrestor which help to direct more heat where you need it too.

The media could not be loaded. After reading other reviews that the heater drops burning pellets, I saw that my wife had thrown out a 9 x 13 cookie sheet, and I had an idea: Using a pair of tin snips and metal bending pliers, I could make a tray to catch any burning pallets that fall out of the heater.The tray can be easily mounted by punching & drilling four holes where the leg stand plate mounts to the bottom of the heater, then screwing through the tray when assembling - sorry, I forgot to take a photo of hole placement. Markings on the blue tape show my measurements and where I cut and bent the metal of the cookie sheet. Photos show all steps.Since I had the tin snips and pliers out, I decided that I could also make a shallow drawer out of 6-inch aluminum flashing to go inside the air intake to catch any burnt pellets that fell out there without obstructing airflow. More blue tape and measurements show where I bent the cheap aluminum flashing. Hopefully, photos show enough steps for others to duplicate my build.After-burn photos show that the tray and the drawer caught all burning embers. Not a one got down to the deck. Success!Video shows the heater looks great when burning. Too bad it doesn’t throw much heat. My next improvement experiment will be adding a heat deflector to the top (made from a 4-inch chimney rain cap - $12 at Ace Hardware). If that proves insufficient, then I’ll add an emitter and reflector from a square pyramid patio heater.

Pretty horrible design allows for embers to fall through and burned my deck. It needs a mechanism to catch the burning debris.

I love this item, but there are a few issues. Really needs a bigger base, and should probably have 4 legs instead of 3, mine fell over and broke on a medium wind, nothing dramatic. You need to clean it regularly to keep it performing well, if it gets dirty the flame is pretty low. You can't keep it out as it may blow over, but it does not really turn off, you just empty out the excess pellets and it keeps burning with a low flame, so you can't put it indoors for at least 30 minutes as it keeps smoking. Do not pour water onto the pellets as it will stain the glass tube dark brown, and is very tough to clean.If you buy it, save the foam for the glass tube, and store the tube instead of the whole unit, as the tube cools down pretty quick and doesn't keep smoking like the base. Use a firestarter or tinder to light it, as it takes some time to get going. I had success with different pellets, and even the cheap ones worked well.Even with all the issues, it looks really cool and heats at least as well as the propane patio heaters. If I can get a replacement tube, I will, even if I have to pay.Update - I contacted their customer service, and they are replacing the entire unit for free, plus sent me instructions on how to get more out of the heater. Great customer service!

The media could not be loaded. I bought it used it 5 times the first 3 times were short fires about 1 hour or less .. then i filled the feed side up completely the fire burned for over 2 hours ,Then the second time was the same about 2 hours but the flame was not as high ,the next day when cleaning it I notice the upper and lower screening that allows the air in to create the flame high enough to be 12" out the top was melted due to the long burn time when full of pellets. Not Cool ! ... so what was happening is the pellets would fall through into the catch basin and burn there or on the ground . I'm looking into a return or exchange but amazon will only return $160 out of the $202 purchase . Not Cool !

The gap out of the box allowed all pellets to fall through. They actually have a "trouble-shooting" section on the listing that recommends you take a pliers to the screen to close the gap. This helped, but I had to also cram some rolled-up pieces of aluminum foil to fully block the gaps. Seems like a major design or manufacturing flaw. The instructions included don't mention it, or how to light. I had the best luck using a "fire-starter stick" and also a propane torch to get it going, which takes a little while. Also a good tip from another reviewer; wait until the flame is going to install the glass tube to avoid smoke dirt on it.

Absolutely love love this...need 3 more for the other porches...perfect lighting and heat...need a torch lighter to start effectively...great piece and no smoke

This fire tube does a great job of providing a wonderful looking flame all the way to the top and out. One problem is that it will make a mess of burning pellets underneath as it burns. If there was a way of catching the burning pellets, it would be wonderful.