Hi,
My Mums old Dimplex log effect bar fire (30 years old) finally died last year and she replaced it with a "stove style" electric heater she got through Clifford James via a Radio Times special offer. It's looks like metal stove (in fact it's black MDF) with a flame effect and fan heater.
It's not a dimplex, though they sell similar looking models . Thing is it's a nightmare. You have to remove 20+ screws and pretty much disassemble the entire thing to change the bulbs and also remove a sheet of glass which has no edge protection.
It's 13 months old and the motor which generates the flame effect by rotating some vanes has started to make a rumbling sound (bearing ?). I'm going to argue the toss with them, but in terms of replacement I wonder if anyone has any good experiences of free standing flame effect electric heaters ? i.e build and ease of replacing the bulbs ?
The old Dimplex has a couple of bulbs and cunningly used passive spinners which turned through updraft from the red bulbs underneath
Amazon and Argos list a couple of similar stove effect models, but my concern is that these are just the same stuff OEM'd