Safety
Electric fan heaters are unsealed appliances with live electric parts inside, so are not safe to use in wet or very humid conditions, due to risk of a short circuit leading to fire, or electrocution due to access to electrically live parts. Electric fan heaters usually have a thermal fuse close to the element(s) to protect against fan failure causing overheating and possibly fire. Steel-cased heaters perform better in potential fire-causing faults than plastic-cased ones, since the case will stay whole and not burn.
Portable fuel-powered fan heaters release all the fumes of combustion into the room, creating a risk of poisoning by carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide. Most installed fuel fan heaters in the first world use a heat exchanger and external ventilation, avoiding this risk, and dumping the water vapour from combustion outdoors.
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neither, than with safety of a pure blush thou mayst in
honor come off again.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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—George Orwell (1903–1950)