Russell Hobbs 650W Oil Filled Radiator, 9 Fin Portable Electric Heater - Black, Adjustable Thermostat, Safety Cut-off, 10 m sq Room Size, ‎RHOFR5002B-AZ, 2 Year Guarantee

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Does the room have doors with gaps and no draught excluders, large windows, and poorly insulated walls? If so, these rooms will need a higher-powered heater to combat those draughty breezes. Convector heaters consume around 2000-watts (2kWh) of electricity, which is often more than double the energy usage of an oil-filled radiator. It’s always best practice to avoid having anything within 3 feet of any active heater and avoid drying damp clothes by laying them over the heated fins. This 2kW oil filled radiator is ideal for warming spaces up to 20 square meters, perfect for rooms up to the size of a small living room or bedroom. The 9 fins are designed for even heat distribution. Ideal for Use All Around the Home They’re portable, filled with oil, and usually, come on caster wheels for easy movement throughout rooms.

Setting the thermostat on a 500-watt heater will take twice as long to reach the temperature as a 1000-watt, yet the overall amount of electricity consumed will be the same for both. 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. 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. The most useful addition is a timer, allowing you to set the heating for the moment you wake up or arrive home. Upmarket models use an app for this, although you’d get much the same functionality with a smart plug.This product comes with a free one year manufacturer guarantee. A free second year guarantee is available upon registering your product. From the 1st of October to December 31st, 2023 the discounted unit rate will be just over 11p/kWhfor electricity during off-peak times. Now let’s see how much price difference it costs to run the heater mentioned above during these times: Setting Also, once turned off, the convector heater will not radiate any more heat, unlike the oil radiator, which will continue to warm the surrounding air as the oil slowly cools to room temperature.

Of the 41 products in the Heating and cooling category, 14 were more expensive than RUSSELL HOBBS RHOFR5002 Portable Oil-Filled Radiator and 26 were cheaper. Prices from Russell Hobbs Apart from the thermostat the only controls here are a three-step power dial and an old-fashioned 24-hour timer divided into 15-minute segments that you pull out for ‘on’ and push in for ‘off’. 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: A 1000-watt radiator running on its lowest setting will cost around 27p an hour, or 16p an hour (off-peak).On the downside, this type can be quite noisy and they don't have some of the more advanced features you can get with convector heaters. Talking of high-end choices… Cotswolds-based Everhot, chief rival to Aga, have just launched a miniature stove that we must include given that it’s the most Telegraph electric heater imaginable.

However, central heating is suitable for heating all the rooms in your house together. Meanwhile, an oil-filled radiator is best suited for adjusting the temperature in any single room, whether that might be a bedroom, living room, conservatory, or garage. Consider the price. We’ll dive into a lot more detail on the price of RUSSELL HOBBS RHOFR5002 Portable Oil-Filled Radiator shortly, but in terms of quality, the obvious advice here is ‘you get what you pay for’. It’s really just being aware that if you’re buying the cheapest of the Heating and cooling from Currys PC World you might not expect the same level of quality as you’d get from a decent quality product like RUSSELL HOBBS RHOFR5002 Portable Oil-Filled Radiator. 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.

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Convector heaters are usually taller than fan heaters, but thin and light – making them larger, but still relatively easy to move between rooms.

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? Oil heaters come with a control dial so you can choose to run the heater on a low, medium, or higher setting. 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. Running the heater on its highest setting will require more electricity to heat the oil faster, and you’ll be using the maximum 2500-watts (2.5 kilowatts per hour). Adjustable thermostat Using this function, a portable heater will heat the room and when the desired temperature is reached, it will try to maintain the room at that temperature. Most of the cheaper, simpler heaters we tested have a dial thermostat that doesn't let you choose specific temperatures in °C. You'll likely need to buy a more expensive model for that. Our tests also found that they're rarely 100% accurate and will probably think the room is a couple of °C warmer or cooler than it is.The cost of one kiloWatt-hour of electricity is capped at 34p under the Energy Price Guarantee announced by the Government in October 2022. Although prices do vary by region and contract (economy 7 tariffs are more expensive by day and cheaper by night, for example), we use the capped price to estimate running costs. If the average variable unit price for energy changes, this article will be updated accordingly. Nearly all have some kind of carry handle for moving about and many have a safety cut-out feature, which will switch off the heater if it gets dangerously hot. Some modern options also have smart features so you can program them via companion apps and smart speakers.