Stay warm year-round in your outdoor space with these CNET-tested outdoor patio heaters.
All of the heaters arrived packed in boxes and required assembly. We have now completed two rounds of product testing in order to bring you a comprehensive list of the best patio heaters. The difficulty level was roughly on par with assembling Ikea furniture: some manuals occasionally needed a little interpretation. Of the traditional-style pole heaters, there was so little variation between the products -- from assembly to operation to looks -- that they might as well have all come from the same factory. Nothing about the assembly process stood out except that it highlighted the similarities between all of the traditional models, and the Cuisinart model had a few more steps to complete its build. I was happy to see that Amazon sent not one but two cheap wrenches to aid…