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This helps them ascertain whether it needs to be placed near you or if it can heat the whole space from afar. I also liked the fact that the Edge enabled me to set my desired temperature down to the exact degree. Energy use As this is the most powerful electric heater in our round-up, it naturally uses the most energy to run. In a draughty room, with the power set to maximum, my temperature reading from ten feet away started rising immediately and took only half an hour to increase by five degrees, which is much quicker than the non-fan heaters above.

With 2,100W of power, it didn’t just heat the area next to the desk, it made the whole room significantly warmer. You can set it to a lower temperature (which also saves money), but that cuts down its effective range to just a couple of feet. What this lacks in looks due to its functional, utilitarian design, it more than makes up for in heating power.

Once the heating had been off for a few hours post-school run, we cranked up a portable heater to the top and timed how long it took to heat up the room, setting a stopwatch on our phone to record an accurate measurement.

The secret is the radiant heater's gold halogen bulb technology that produces safe beaming heat rays just like the sun and stay warm outside, even when it's snowing.Convection heaters circulate air through the appliance and are often strong and silent whereas fan heaters blow air over a heating element to provide a blissful blast of warm air.

She specialises in product reviews, having reviews hundreds of small and large appliances and homeware. Rather than relying on a fan to distribute their heat, they use the principle of convection, warming up the air surrounding them, which rises, drawing cold air towards the heater. However, its lower settings are less costly, with medium heat (1000W) costing 27p an hour and low (900W) 24p an hour. It was also one of the more economical heaters – its lowest setting used 31p of electricity an hour. Every winter it's the same story: the freezing cold forces you to spend a lot of money on central heating which is both inefficient and expensive.When I try to change something with the buttons, for example adjust the temperature, nothing happens. Performance At first, I found the reach of the Russell Hobbs 700W Ceramic Plug In Heater to be limited – I found I got about a three metre range of direct heat after the heater had been running 10 minutes or so.