That did however bring up one issue…that Dimplex are known to make more products than just Heating and cooling. 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: Under current energy prices, the electric heaters we've tested can cost anything from 9p to 87p per hour to run on full blast. We’re delighted that two of our most popular portable heaters, and one of our dehumidifiers, have been recognised for their outstanding performance with Which? Best Buy Awards in the latest electric heater and dehumidifier review guides. 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.

The Dimplex DXSTG25 Studio G ceramic fan tower heater and Dimplex DXUC2B fan heater were among six Best Buy products, making up one third of the total electric heating selection from Which?.We would also recommend the following video on the brand Dimplex too. Thank you for taking the time to read our Dimplex DXUC2B Fan Heater review from the Small Appliances category. If there’s any products that we have not yet reviewed please leave us a comment and we will do our best to get a review added. About Ao.com These can still be bought, but they aren't as popular or widely available as fan or convector heaters. Frost protection The heater can be set to heat automatically when the temperature drops below 5°C, but you'll need to have it on standby for it to run, so this can limit its usefulness. Keen to optimise home heating? See our advice on boiler controls and thermostats , smart meters , and loft insulation 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.

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The next process we put in place was to see how cheap you can get products in the Heating and cooling category and also just to see how expensive they can get too.

So the final step for us was to look specifically at products that are made by Dimplex but are also only fitting in the Heating and cooling category. Dimplex branded Heating and cooling Some brands and specific models can make a splash with consumers. Because of this, other companies sometimes offer very similar products that might be quite a bit cheaper. To do this we studied all 66 products that show up in the Heating and cooling category at Currys PC World as well as the 35 from the brand Dimplex. 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. 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.Modern computers sometimes don’t even have features that have been standard for decades. If you like the option to burn CDs or store files on external hard drives, make sure that the computer you’re looking to buy has a CD drive as well as plenty of USB slots. We’re really pleased overall with DIMPLEX DXUC2B Tusk Ceramic Fan Heater, enough to score it 8.5/10. 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. But despite how often we use electronic devices, buying new appliances can be a daunting, and often expensive, task. 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.