I see Google news pushing flipping adverts for (Amazon and other) plug in portable heaters and how amazing they are. Apparently they are so good and cheap to run we’re literal fools for not having one. But before I invest a trifling twenty notes, are these bollox it can anyone share their experience or reviews and thoughts. I can’t find reviews for them which don’t look dodgy.
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Its going to perform the same or slightly worse than any other heater you can plug into a wall tbh
You got some that are a bit bigger than a plug and actually sit on the socket like a plug in Glade. 500W. “amazing, so cheap to run”; then there are ones that are just ceramic mini blower heaters, 2000W. Surely they can’t be as the adverts describe.. ?
They’re no more or less efficient than larger units. Bit of scam really.
Ha. I saw the same adverts. The one I saw was a tiny photoshopped woodburner plugged into a socket.
Big Clive’s got you covered:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPnLnk35XsY
Something the size of a glade plug in is gonna do fuck all to heat a room up.
I’ve got a 1.5kw russell hobbs electric oil heater that cost 50 quid. It looks decent enough and gets a room warm in a few minutes
Avoid at all costs. Why do you think it’s a good idea to put an extremely cheaply made plastic heater right next to a wall socket, a heater so dangerously designed that no mainstream retailer will sell them. If you see them in Argos, [ao.com](https://ao.com) etc then go for it.
Gas is still cheaper than leccy. If you have central heating just turn it on instead.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-jmSjy2ArM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-jmSjy2ArM)
There was a report on these heaters on the BBC two weeks ago, and they basically said that they are OK for tiny room, like a little box office, but they aren’t any good for rooms bigger than that as you would need multiple ones plugged in, and also they warned that the heat plate gets incredibly hot and could easily burn someone if the touched it. I’ve attached the link to the article on BBC Sounds.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001dxtx
Generally, all electric heaters turn near all the electrcity into heat. Radiant types (those that light up) tend to heat the person close to it, rather than the room. But a ‘cheap to run one’ will only save you money if you’re happy to accept it being colder, or it taking a lot longer to heat the room, thus costing the same in total electricity use. They are basically a low level con.
Personally I think fan heaters are too expensive to run and essentially redundant as a result, because if you can afford to run one then you can probably afford to run your central heating.
Halogen heaters (the ones that glow red) are significantly cheaper to run, but they’re still going to burn through your energy budget pretty quickly.
Spend the money on an A level physics text book, read and learn and stop getting scammed.