Challenge 2kw Oscillating Tower Fan Heater With Remote Control - White

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This Challenge ceramic fan heater keeps your home heated or comfortably cool with 2 heat settings, a normal room-temp wind setting and the option to blow cool air. It's freestanding, thermostatically controlled and has a 1.5-metre cord. For your own peace of mind, it has a safety cut out switch to prevent it from overheating as well as a tip-over protection switch. Heat output 2kW. 2 heat settings. Safety cut out switch. Thermostatically controlled. Cool air blow feature. Suitable for room size up to 15m². Freestanding. Suitable for floor standing. 1.5m cord length. 2000 watts. Size H22.8, W17.5, D13.5cm. Weight 1.44kg. Fully assembled.

We set up each heater in the centre of our test room and run it on the maximum settings, with the room starting at a cool temperature. We monitor how much the room temperature changed over the course of an hour using temperature probes. We found the most drastic changes happen in the first half an hour and increases in temperature become more incremental after that. The oil in the radiator acts as a heat reservoir, which stays hot for some time after the heater's switched off. Some are called 'oil-free' and function in a comparable way, just with an internal heating element instead of any oil. Read our full story on illegal and dangerous plug-in mini heaters for sale on online marketplaces to see those we identified as having serious safety risks. The first is brand. Looking at the brand of the product is often a really good indicator for judging product quality. For example you’d expect a much higher quality product from a brand known for providing excellent quality than you would from an unknown or even a budget brand. The next step was to try and narrow down our search even more. So we’ve already looked the prices of products in the Heaters and radiators category. Then we’ve also looked at the prices of products from Challenge. So this step combines the two and looks specifically at the price you’d expect to pay for Challenge branded products in the Heaters and radiators category.If you were to try replacing the use of your central heating by putting an electric heater in each room, it will definitely end up costing much more. Just before we get into the detail of analysing the price of this product, we want to briefly highlight the importance of setting yourself a budget before you spend too much time shopping around for a suitable product. It’s all too often that we get carried away when shopping and find ourselves buying a fantastic product, but probably actually overdelivers on what we need and therefore costs a lot more than we should have spent. So spend a bit of time looking around at the sort of price you can expect to pay for products in the Heaters and radiators category and use that alongside your own financial situation to set yourself a budget. Some portable heaters have useful extras, such as an LCD screen that displays the current temperature or a remote control for turning the heater on from across the room. These features may come in handy: The brand of product you buy can vary in importance, from person to person. Some people will of course be much more particular about the brands they will use. Whilst others aren’t interested in the brand and are more interested in the overall quality or price of the product itself. Thankfully Challenge is a brand that many customers have grown to love over the years and is very popular for items in the Heaters and radiators category.

We assess how easily each electric heater can be set up and how easily understandable the controls and settings are. We used any handles to lift the heater and move it around. While some heaters can be used straight out of the box, others have complicated program and timer settings. Price is then of course the second part of this tip, and the advice here is to take the time to really study the price of Challenge 2kW Ceramic Fan Heater against other products in the Heaters and radiators category. To help you with that, we’ve run some analysis for you.

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In terms of how much it would cost your fan heater to heat a room, this would depend on a variety of factors. These are:

Although the comparison might make your electric heater look cheaper to run, bear in mind that it will only be heating a much smaller area, whereas your central heating will be aiming to heat your whole home. Of the 55 products, we discovered that 48 were more expensive and 5 were cheaper than Challenge 2kW Ceramic Fan Heater. Prices from Challenge Quality is another important element when shopping for a new product, particularly if you’re looking for products like Heaters and radiators. However it’s really worth setting your expectations and needs right up-front so that you’re not expecting the world’s best quality products from the cheapest products in the range. It's worth also bearing in mind that calculating the cheapest way to heat a room again depends on a number of variables, such as the size of your home and how energy-efficient it is, your heating requirements, and your energy provider. What are the disadvantages of a fan heater?Programmable timer Useful for setting a heater to turn on just before you get home or wake up, so there's no waiting around for the heater to warm up. Next up is material. Read through the product description for Challenge 2kW Ceramic Fan Heater to get an understanding of the materials the product is made from. Some materials will obviously be known for delivering better quality item than others. You might also have decided that you’ll only accept a product made from a particular material. Keen to optimise home heating? See our advice on boiler controls and thermostats , smart meters , and loft insulation

Fan heaters can consume a lot of electricity in a short space of time, and are therefore best used in smaller and well insulated rooms. These can still be bought, but they aren't as popular or widely available as fan or convector heaters.Cold air setting Some fan heaters can help cool you down too. They're not nearly as effective as a dedicated air conditioner, but a light breeze of cold air is better than nothing. Pinning down an exact comparison of how much central heating and electric heaters cost to run is nigh-on impossible, as the factors below are just some of the variables that play a part: They tend to be cheap to run, but some can be really slow to heat up. Most oil-filled heaters are also fairly heavy and cumbersome, so look out for models that come with wheels.