Review on Lasko 101 Personal Heater White by Jermaine Rhodes

This is my second Lasko heater and it will be my last. The first was a "tower" type oscillating heater. When it seemed to be losing heat output after just a few months of use, I took a closer look and found that its dense heating element was more than half clogged with dust, lint, and cat hair, not only halving its efficiency but making it one Fire hazard (part of the stack is burned). An attempt to blow out the blockage with compressed air was unsuccessful. And disassembling the heater to clean the heating element proved to be a big problem, as it was held together with special Torx security screws - star sockets with a pin in the middle that didn't allow the use of a standard Torx tool or any other tool for these Matter. I ended up throwing the Lasko tower heater away - more trouble than good. Why am I telling you all this? Because this little "personal" heater is the same thing in miniature. It has a smaller, clog-prone version of the same heating element and is held together with deeply embedded Torx security screws. Unless you have a Torx Security T10 screwdriver that is at least three inches long, you cannot disassemble it for cleaning. So if its heating element clogs up after a few months, you'll have to throw it away. Not recommended.