This heater has saved my bacon on a number of occasions. I've owned mine for 7 years and it's still going strong. In my student house, where the heating was on for 20 minutes a day (woe betide you if you left your towel covering your radiator during this precious period) it was a godsend. I had a large room but it soon warmed up with this heater running at full pelt. In my current flat which only has single glazing, it gets plenty of use during the winter and makes the cold months liveable. The Connect-It Halogen heater is a simple white upright design. Three heating bars elements provide the power and the user has the option of controlling the output level ...  Read the complete review

We bought this halogen heater a few years back, just as a back up for in the kitchen. Having large patio windows at one end and two large sets of windows either side we seem to lose a lot of heat through the glass. We are double glazed, but it can still get cold even with the heating on. The main reason we bought this heater was because they were selling them off for a fiver ( it must have been in the summertime when we got this one!). I now wish we had got a couple more, now that I know how good they can be. When it came for the first time to use this heater I was so embarrassed, as I thought the neighbours would think that our kitchen had been light up by ...  Read the complete review

After it gets cold and you suddenly realize there is a cold spot in your room you start looking around for something portable and cheap to give some supplementary heating. There seem to be a number of variations of this type of heater around these days from different makers. They also seem to quote different wattage figures although apart from some which come in grey they all look virtually identical. This model quotes 1200 watts so I assume each of the 3 heating bars will give 400 watts of output. The heater is light, easy to carry around (although it lacks a carrying handle) so is ideal for positioning exactly where you need some heating. Something you ...  Read the complete review