Swan SH60010BN 9 Finned Oil Filled Radiator , Black

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Many fan heaters also have a cold air setting – they essentially double up as fans in the summer. While not as potent as air conditioners, it could save you having to fit both appliances into your house. How safe are portable electric heaters? Your heater’s power will be measured in kilowatts (kW). For most small- and medium-sized rooms, a 2kW device will suffice. All of the heaters in our review are 2kW or under. Running costs are usually calculated by the hour (kWh). High demand Standing knee-high, it can be plugged in anywhere, but you won’t be moving it around much: at 50kg, it takes two people to lift and does get very hot. The heat escapes from the vent at the top, making this a convection heater like many others, but after about half an hour the rest of the cast iron body heats up too, radiating warmth outwards for quite a while after it’s turned off.

Oil filled radiators are brilliant at retaining heat and will continue to emit heat once switched off - this is because oil cools down very slowly.

Frost protection is a common extra and sees the heater automatically switch on when the room goes below 5C. That leads us nicely into price, where we’re going to spend some time looking at the price of SWAN SH60010BN Oil-Filled Radiator and seeing how that compares to other Heating and cooling and also looking at the sort of price you can expect to pay for products from Swan. Brand, as mentioned earlier, is another really important factor to consider for buying Heating and cooling. Portable and a far cry from clunky designs of the past, oil radiators are a great home heating solution in particularly cold weather or heating a single room without turning the central heating on.

If you’re sitting a few feet away from this not particularly handsome oil-filled radiator, initially it’s underwhelming. The oil takes a while to warm up, plinking and plonking as it goes, and the heat that slowly emerges from the top in a “chimney” effect goes up, not out. Over time, as cool air is drawn in from beneath due to convection, the whole room heats up, but in my test it took half an hour for the temperature monitor set ten feet away to register any rise at all. According to technical service manager at Pimlico Plumbers Bennett, these are the most efficient on the whole. They use an electrical current within thermal oil, heating the oil and circulating it around the heater, a bit like water in a radiator. They are convection heaters, meaning that as the heat rises it draws in cooler air in underneath to be heated in turn - an effect that works best in well-sealed rooms.

However, it won’t be suitable for all. It may not be unusually large, but it is very heavy, making it challenge to move around for people with reduced strength or mobility. It becomes super-hot, too, making it a poor choice around very young children who might be tempted to touch it. At 500W, it offers the same power at maximum setting as some of the full-sized heaters above do on minimum. It makes some noise, but not much more than an old disc-driven computer. Apart from the temperature setting, the only other control is a timer to switch it off after up to 12 hours. In the Heating and cooling category, 15 products cost more than SWAN SH60010BN Oil-Filled Radiator and 35 cost less. How much are Swan Heating and cooling? Manufacturer Refurbished Includes essential functional accessories to power on and work the unit. Non-essential accessories may NOT be supplied.