In comparison, I’ve used gas bottle Calor heaters in the same building twenty years ago and had very noticeable amounts of condensation, so (purely in my own opinion & my experience) if these heaters do produce moisture, they don’t produce it in the same volumes as traditional Calor heaters. One of the main advantages of a Zibro Paraffin Heater is its low fuel consumption. The heaters run on clean burning fuel especially formulated for Zibro Heaters. Fuel is available at many outlets such as reputable garden centres, DIY shops, online shops etc. Just one litre of fuel will typically warm up your room for up to five hours. Very easy to budget your heating costs. By buying heating oil kerosene from a local depot reduces my cost of the fuel from 70p per litre to 53p per litre, this means that the real cost of running my Inverter heater falls even further, from 7p per KW to 5.3p per KW – making it almost as cheap as mains gas, and even less than the cost of Economy 7 overnight electricity which my (useless) storage heaters use. You could probably reduce this to below 5p if you shopped around, and had the space to store a bulk heating oil delivery. Similarly, it has some amazing safety features. For instance, the Anti-topple technology, low-fuel alarm and Carbon Monoxide Alarm help rank the Inverter among the safest heaters on the Irish Market! Therefore, it’s ideal for use as a home or conservatory heater.

Requires 240v supply to power electronic ignition, thermostatic controls & electronic fan which blows out the heat. Digitally Thermostatically controlled, which switches to a paraffin saving eco mode (800w) when the room reaches the selected temperature. In Eco Mode the heater will run for an amazing 45 – 48 hours on one fill of fuel. This is where my own experiences begin, I have a rural property which is outside of the mains gas area and doesn’t have any form of central heating, the property is insulated and has double glazing, however it suffers from one handicap, the fact that it has electric storage heaters. Those who have storage heaters will already know, that come winter they are extremely inflexible, increasingly expensive to run and by around 5pm or 6pm they have exhausted all of their useful heat and once night falls, the room rapidly becomes cold. Electricity is supplied on Economy 7 or Economy 10 tariffs, and although these tariff’s give you seven to ten hours of cheap overnight electricity, the cost of the Electricity during the normal day (peak) periods is significantly more expensive than on a standard non economy 7 tariff. Up to three or four times higher per unit in fact!. My heater has a certain “wiff” to it while its running and reminds me of an Airport Runway on startup and shutdown. Finally, lets see how the cost of running the Corona Paraffin Inverter heater compares with other fuels (This update takes into account current prices in October 2023)

Unfortunately, you will always get a smell of paraffin when these heaters are first turned on and again when they shut down. These type of heaters don’t have an outside flue, so where else can the smell from the combustion process starting and stopping go. The solution, it turns out, has been here all along; before domestic gas and electricity became readily available, it was paraffin heaters UK households most commonly turned to to warm their homes. In fact, for all kinds of indoor heaters paraffin proved itself to be an ideal fuel source. The infrastructure associated with the supply and use of paraffin is established and well proven. Thanks to the current economic climate, paraffin heaters for the home are making a return to the UK.

This means, that when the Economy 7 storage heaters inevitably run out of heat, by around late afternoon or early evening, or the weather turns unexpectedly chilly some other form of ‘top up’ heating is required which is often also electrically powered, such as a convector heater, panel heater, fan heater or oil filled radiator.Once the heater is lit the pre heat element turns off and the consumption drops to around 22w which is purely the combined requirement of the fan, controls and fuel pump. The Electronic versions, being fan based have a greater degree of control and temperature accuracy, including a Digital Electronic Thermostat which modulates the heat from the burner, so the closer the heater gets to reaching the desired room temperature, the burner output is reduced automatically.

Safe and Reliable, being 99% efficient and having no external flue or chimney means 99% of the heat produced from the fuel actually goes into the room, not out of the flue. Far more efficient than portable gas heaters, LPG fired central heating, older gas fires and virtually just as efficient as more expensive electric heating, but at 50% – 75% of the cost – FACT.

These fires incorporate an electronic thermostat to control room temperature, also allowing a timer to be set so the fire will turn on at a desired time. I’m very tempted to try the Cherry fragranced additive, but the heaters instruction book says not to use fuel with additives. I’m not sure exactly what they mean by additives, maybe they mean impurities?? In-built sensors monitor machine performance as well as carbon monoxide levels in the room. Any deviation and the machine shuts down fully automatically. The Inverter 5086 is the same as the Inverter 5096. The name has been updated for 2020, the product is identical otherwise.

Zibro Laser Paraffin Heater. Needs power supply to ignite fuel efficiently and has an integral fan to circulate heat through convection as well as radiating heat. Very efficient burn system and low maintenance. Varying degree of controls include Timers, Proximity Switch On, Fuzzy Logic Control. Laser Heater have some additional safety features.These new economical heaters are virtually 100% efficient, eradicating any smell or condensation as in oldfashionedparaffin and gas heaters.These heaters are designed to run on premium paraffin which is also called class 1 kerosene use of any other fuel will invalidate any warrantyFuel tank Filler pump included