Dimplex: Vital Sense 60

A fire for every mood, every day of the year.

Quick Facts

• Heating Capacity: 0–500 sq ft
• Viewing Area: 57″ wide
• Fuel: Electric.
• Controls: App, remote control, or hidden touch controls, with temperature setting and a timer up to 8 hours.
• Fan: Included (fan-forced heater).

Who It’s For

Most fireplaces give you one look: the same flame, the same color, and not much reason to turn it on from April to October. You need a fire that changes with the evening and runs without heat when the room is already warm. If you’re finishing a wall in a living room, bedroom, or office and want the fire to be part of the design, this is your category. Pick a fixed-look unit and it sits dark half the year; the Vital Sense 60 runs flame-only, 365 days a year, with heat on demand when you want it.

What Makes It Special

Dimplex’s patented flame effect is layered, so the fire has depth—and every part of it is yours to adjust: 13 flame colors, seven ember-bed colors, three speeds, and three brightness settings. Turn it down to a slow amber glow for a quiet evening or run it bright and vivid for a full house. Because the flames work with or without heat, the fire earns its wall in July as much as in January.

When you do want warmth, the built-in heater covers up to 1,000 square feet on demand—set the temperature and let it do the rest. Run everything from the Glen Dimplex Connect app on your phone, the included remote, or touch controls tucked out of sight along the top edge. Installation goes either way: hang it on the included wall-mount brackets or recess it into a framed opening for a flush, built-in finish.

Possible Downsides

• Tumbled glass is the only included media; driftwood and split-log looks are optional add-on sets.
• No power, no fire—like any electric fireplace, it stops during an outage. If outage heat matters to you, look at a gas or wood unit.

If you want a fire you’ll actually use all twelve months, the Vital Sense 60 is the right decision. The room it’s in becomes the room the house lives in.

It ships with a tumbled glass media bed, and optional faux wood log sets—Split Logs, Thin Split Logs, Driftwood, and Beach Driftwood—let you change the look of the fire whenever you change the room.