Geez, mate, give it a rest! Since you readily admit you are not a heating engineer or electrician or anything else vaguely related (nor am I) you have no way of knowing HOW MUCH oil should be in it. ALL oil heaters are partly filled, perhaps for reasons I have theorised before. I also doubt you could buy less than a rather large drum of it, if you could find it. Tell me - any signs of a leak? Do you have an identical heater? If so, weigh both with good scales. That would indicate if oil was low. As I've said before, oil-filled heaters have a very gentle heat, so may not feel as 'warm' as others, still, with a little time they will fill a smaller room with a nice all-over heat. If you could compare identical heaters you might be able to say one was hotter than another.....I suspect it's fine apart from the thermostat, and, chances are, you're on the low setting. I don't think running it without a thermostat is safe, even if you do watch it..... Trust me, I've seen/bought/used a lot of heaters in my day, probably more than most posters here, since I lived in Australia and portable heaters are all 99% of the population use, since few people have central heat. Just chuck it. Get another sort, if you don't like the oil heat type. Personally I like them almost as much as baseboard heaters (and they're easier to cover up accidentally, although I don't know how much risk of fire they pose) - I bought an oil heater for both my daughter's rooms since they were the safest we could find, and they may well have been Delonghis. For us, they worked well but to this day, they still make a hot paint smell when they run. DON'T BOTHER ABOUT THE OIL - YOU CAN'T RESEAL IT, AND YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHETHER MORE OIL WILL HELP OR WILL EXPAND AND CAUSE LEAKAGE ETC.

I'd get rid of those plug-in's completely and the air-wick things, too. They're both made with an industrial oil base so you can't reproduce them at home. The first disburses perfumed oil from the little heating element inside the plastic "warmer" and the other through air absorbtion from the wick. In the long run, (you mentioned you liked vanilla scent) it's much cheaper, easier, and more environmentally-friendly to buy vanilla scent potpourri and, vanilla scent essential oil at your local, discount craft store and just keep refreshing the potpourri with a few drops of essential oil when it needs it. Potpourri lasts for years and, a scent like vanilla is almost always readily available. (Buy the essential oils ahead if you have any doubts). Eileen :-)

newhomebuilder, I'm taking a look at the new beach club but felt the need to caution you first about buying Scentsy wax on ebay. You have no idea how old it is and unless it's kept in the freezer, it's "intended" use can be as short as 4-5 months depending on how it was stored. It will still have fragrance but be weaker. Which peach scent have you found and I'll try to figure out when was the last time it was offered (but it could be older than that). It might be something that hasn't been for sale for a year or longer! I'd hate for you to be disappointed with your first Scentsy experience. Tell me what you like and I'll try to make some suggestions...of course everyone's nose is different! The last peach fragrance I remember is Posey Peach

Bronwynsmom is right! I would be so tempted to order them in the balsam! I love the scent of pine trees, but because I'm allergic to evergreen trees, I can only have the artificial ones in our home. I'm technically only allergic to their pollen in the Spring and touching them anytime. We live here in the mountains of New Mexico, in the middle of thousands of acres of pinon pine and juniper trees, but I don't have any problems until the pollen hits in the Spring. Last week I bought a real mixed evergreen wreath, swag and candle ring for here in the house and they don't bother me at all (I don't touch them, though). But . . . a couple of days ago I bought one of Glade's Scented Plug-ins in Simmering Spruce. I plugged it in and within the hour I was having some breathing problems(coughing and shortness of breath). This was definitely caused by the plug-in. I unplugged it and it took about 6 hours for my breathing to get back to normal. That thing is going back tomorrow! So if, like me, you or a loved one has allergies to pines, be very careful about the pine scented oils, candles, potpourri and whatever. As Bronwynsmom said, "most scented products use chemicals that mimic the real thing, and those can shut us right down". I learned the hard way, but I realize that it could have been much worse. Lynn