When we lived in our previous house the office was up in the converted attic and despite there being a big Velux window up there it used to get VERY hot at times so we decided to buy a fan. The one we chose was a pedestal fan from Homebase and I can't remember how much we paid for it but the current price is £31.49. Having read the other reviews on this site the price seems to be around the £18 mark so I don't know if they got theirs on special offer. Getting Set Up The fan comes in a box (obviously) complete with instructions on how to put it together. The weight of the whole thing is 4.8kg so it isn't too heavy to go and collect from ...  Read the complete review

When things started heating up seriously over the last two weeks in my office and our air conditioning packed up (great timings ay) we needed a solution. So a few of us hot foted it down to the local homebase. It seems homebase knew things where gonna get a bit hot under the collar because these babies were cente stage as we walked in along with desk fans and all sorts of other contraptions for keeping you cool. Weve had it for a few weeks now and we have had no problems with it. I tend to think that when you buy own brand cheapy products like this, especially electronics, they either fail in the first two weeks or keep on going for a long time and ended up ...  Read the complete review

Its fair to say that I have not had much need over recent months to turn on my Homebase Pedestal Fan - but back in the summer, this was a different story and I used it a fair bit. Unlike in other places in the world that are geared up for hot weather with air-con installed in their houses and swimming pools in their back gardens, here in the UK we have to make do with regular cool showers, cold drinks - and a fan in the corner of the room which battles to keep the room temperature at least a little more comfortable. The fan was bought from Homebase about 18 months ago for the low cost of £17.99 - which seemed a very reasonable price to pay. I have used it for ...  Read the complete review

We are a contrary lot here in the UK. First we moan that we don't get a summer. Now it's here, we are all moaning that we are too hot! I think we just need the weather to give us something to talk about... My office is an oven in summer though, as we have large windows that don't open and only two weeny little louvre window things that tilt a bit at the top. Gasp. Much as I love the summer, I don't enjoy sitting and getting sweaty at work. So I've brought my pedestal fan in from home and thought it might be the perfect moment to review this little gem. I have owned the white version of this fan for six years and it gets put to use every summer, then ...  Read the complete review

It's possibly the coldest month of the year, everyone's feeling a bit down after Christmas, it's been blowing a gale for the past few days and it's currently raining outside my window... yet I spent the day in a t shirt with a fan on! Sadly I'm not in the Barbados (despite praying every night to wake up there in the morning) and I'm actually still in the north west of England where the majority of people are moaning about the cold weather (we Brits are just so predictable aren't we)! I've also not lost my mind by trying to contract hypothermia (even though I don't really want to go to work tomorrow) and I'm not under trying to play those mind games where you imagine the .  Read the complete review