Esschert Design Medium Terra Heater,black

Built strong, nice fire place

This little keeps us warm when we take our dogs to play in the backyard. We bought one for ourselves and one for our friends. They love it so much, too. The only reason I would rate it a 4 star instead of 5 is because the mouth is a bit too small. So we have to cut the wood into smaller piece before we could put it inside. Otherwise, great piece if you want to hang out in backyard in winter time.

Package arrived beatup, but if you expect a 50 lb cast iron package to arrive in perfect condition you are nuts.Its a hair small, But I knew that going into the purchase.The construction seems rigid and thick and this thing could easily last decades getting beat up by the elements with how thick the metal is.

Minimum footprint on my small patio, a nice sleek look and LOTS of heat. It rusts like crazy and I assume the finish will mostly burn off, but it looks natural. It was hard to find a cast iron chiminea without ornementation -- loads of Southwest or grapes or vines -- but the appearance of this is easy on the eyes. Beware, though, packaging is flimsy and it took three deliveries for me to end up with one whole chiminea. The entire thing was re-sent each time, so I had lots of broken cast iron to dispose of, but Amazon customer service was fantastic.

Great quality product. The only downside is that the mouth of the opening is simply too small to put enough wood in it to create any real heat. It does get off a nice ambience but is very hard to keep the wood inside the chiminea the wood keeps falling out. We have to buy a bigger one with a great on the front to keep the wood on the inside. Overall the cast iron it is very nice.

We did not realize how small this was when we purchased. The area where you place logs and have a fire will not accept logs that are normal sized, you must cut them in half. If I was to do this again, I'd spend the extra money on bigger fire place. Other than that it seems fairly sturdy.Update 5/29/2020. We've only had this since end of March and its starting to rust. I do not recommend this. It's too small and it's rusting see photos.

This thing is great, puts out alot if heat, and best of all IT KEEPS MOSQUITOS AWAY!Don't expect the black paint to survive. When I bought it I assumed it would need to be painted every. No big deal.Don't let the need to repaint stop you from buying one.

Its been a solid unit. The center bottom grate broke after a few years of use but other than that its been good