DeLonghi fan heater- A great little heater,with high expectations (DeLonghi HTE332)

Member Name: mummy2twogirls

Product:	DeLonghi HTE332
Date:	10/01/09 (82 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Does the job great and is very handy

Disadvantages: The cable is very short

After moving into our new house about 10 months ago now which we rent privately the first thing the landlord promised was that he would sort the fire out in the living room. It is one of them coal burner ones with a door,but unfortunately one of the sides had collapsed therefore it was unsafe to use. As we moved in during a cold spell and it wasn't quite spring yet we had to come up with a safe way to heat the living room as we have two young children who would be using the living room quite often.

My partners dad gave us one of these DeLonghi fan heaters where you simply plug in, choose your settings and away you go. At first i was very impressed with the heat that the heater that kicking out, as for such a small product i wouldn't of expected it.

The heater is a 3kw output and you can either have the fan set to cool or either hot. It is a very compact little heater and is very small. It has three different heat settings- cool, medium and warm and then it has 6 different settings to control the temperature with one being the lowest and 6 being the highest. If you have the heater on number 6 it will constantly kick out hot air, but if you have it on either 4 or 5 it has a overheat protection system where if it gets to hot it will stop working, and then when it feels like it's gone to a lower temperature again will kick in blowing hot air again.

It has a thermostat to control the temperature as well and since we have been using it, have found it to be very safe and ideal. It warms up out rather large living room in no time at all and the heat circulates around for ages. I have yet to use it as a cooling fan so i cannot comment on how well it cools.

Unlike some other fan heaters i have used in the past i have found that it doesn't make a loud noise, just a simple low whirling noise which is hardly noticeable. Plus it doesn't dry up the air as much, which i also found with other heaters.

After using the heater for many months we decided to purchase a new heater a few weeks back as the old one was getting to old! And with the landlord showing no sign of the new fire, we have found that it's the cheapest and easiest way to heat the living room for now. Most of the heating in out house comes from the rayburn, which some days is not needed, and then if it gets a little chilly instead of lighting the rayburn we will use the fan heater for a while just to add some warmth to the house.

Both me and my partner agree that the heater does a great job and is excellent value for money, the new heater that we brought a few weeks ago cost £20.00 from Amazon, and about £25.00 in Argos which is still pretty cheap. Its practical, safe and we didn't see any rapid changes to our energy bills neither.

The only downfall really is that is only has a short cable attached, so you need to have a plug socket close by. But i suppose that they make the leads short for safety reasons.

I would defiantly recommend this product as a short term solution to heating rooms, although i must point out that they are not safe to use in bathrooms.

Summary: I don't know what i would have done without it.