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The mar­ket for heat­ing appli­ances is very sat­u­rat­ed right now. There are pow­er­ful sta­tion­ary devices that can heat large spaces, and there are also portable ones with low pow­er. A house­hold fan heater allows you to quick­ly and effi­cient­ly warm up the room in the off-sea­son, as well as sup­ple­ment the work of radi­a­tors if their heat trans­fer is not enough.

Fan heaters accord­ing to their pur­pose are divid­ed into domes­tic or indus­tri­al. By type of heat­ing ele­ment — spi­ral, ceram­ic or tubu­lar. And also by the type of instal­la­tion — on the floor or wall. When choos­ing a fan, it is impor­tant to con­sid­er what area and for how long you need to heat it, whether you need the device to be “friends” with mois­ture, whether you will use it con­stant­ly or turn it on for a cou­ple of hours, what noise lev­el both­ers you and whether you are ready to solve the prob­lem of dry air . Kom­so­mol­skaya Prav­da talks about the best fan heaters: which mod­els are rel­e­vant in 2021, how much they cost and what to look for when buy­ing.

Top 10 rating according to KP

1. REDMOND RFH-C4522S

Our rat­ing is opened by a floor fan heater from the Russ­ian com­pa­ny Red­mond. The device will delight those who keep up with progress: it con­nects to a smart­phone, to the Yan­dex voice assis­tant Alice, has a remote con­trol as a nice addi­tion, small size with quite decent work pow­er. In the spring of 2021, it fell in price by a cou­ple of thou­sand, which makes it even more attrac­tive.

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Main characteristics

Heat­ing ele­ment	ceram­ic
Heat­ed area	25 m²
Heat­ing pow­er	2000 W
Ther­mo­stat	there is
Tem­per­a­ture con­trol	there is
Dis­play	elec­tron­ic
Instal­la­tion	wall mount
Two oper­at­ing modes	heat­ing and blow­ing

Pros and cons

Works with Alice, is con­trolled via Blue­tooth from a phone, works almost silent­ly, has a remote con­trol, turns off when over­heat­ed and rollover, rotates around its axis

There is no instruc­tion man­u­al, the remote con­trol appli­ca­tion is not suit­able for all smart­phones, the tem­per­a­ture sen­sor is not always true, the fan does not turn off when the room tem­per­a­ture is main­tained

2. Electrolux EFH/W‑7020

This Elec­trolux wall-mount­ed fan heater is so con­ve­nient and pow­er­ful that there are quite a few neg­a­tive reviews on it. It looks styl­ish, works prop­er­ly, allows you to set the tem­per­a­ture to which you want to heat the room.

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3. Stadler Form Anna (A‑020E/021E)

The Swiss com­pa­ny Stadler Form has assem­bled a small but pow­er­ful and reli­able fan heater. This mod­el is avail­able in white and black col­ors, so it will eas­i­ly fit into any inte­ri­or. What it lacks in addi­tion­al fea­tures, it makes up for in reli­a­bil­i­ty and ease of use.

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4. Electrolux EFH/W‑9020

Two modes of oper­a­tion, in win­ter it can be used for heat­ing, in sum­mer — as a fan. Hangs on the wall so it won’t get in the way. The kit comes with a remote con­trol, for which there is a place to store it inside the device itself.

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5. Stadler Form Anna Little

Anoth­er mod­el of the Swiss com­pa­ny Stadler Form is a lit­tle less pow­er­ful, but also cheap­er than the Stadler From Anna, and by the end of win­ter 2021, its price has decreased by an aver­age of anoth­er thou­sand rubles. The man­u­fac­tur­er some­what over­did it with safe­ty mea­sures: the device turns off not only when heat­ed and over­turned, but even when tilt­ed, but you can be sure that it will def­i­nite­ly not cause a fire.

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6. Timberk TFH F20VVE

Tim­berk is a Russ­ian brand that has been pro­duc­ing home appli­ances since 2004. This device is inter­est­ing in that it has both touch con­trol but­tons and a remote con­trol, the room warms up quick­ly, the air does not dry out. The sys­tem, which turns off the device when it over­heats and falls, works with­out fail­ures.

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7. Thermex Stels 2000E

Anoth­er Russ­ian com­pa­ny, Ther­mex, has made an inex­pen­sive, reli­able prod­uct that is easy to use, looks decent, and is inex­pen­sive. Mount­ed on the wall, con­trolled from the remote con­trol. There are no con­trol but­tons on the device itself, so the remote con­trol will have to be cher­ished like the apple of an eye.

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8. Tefal SE9420

The device is very unusu­al, styl­ish, avail­able in black. The fan heater of the French com­pa­ny Tefal has five modes of oper­a­tion, but it will not be easy to deal with them: the instruc­tion man­u­al is sparse and does not explain the nuances of con­trol.

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9. PROFFI PH9401

This fan heater is pro­duced by a rel­a­tive­ly young Russ­ian com­pa­ny (it has exist­ed since 2015). Cus­tomers com­plain about the smell of plas­tic at the begin­ning of use, which lat­er dis­ap­pears. Users have prac­ti­cal­ly no com­plaints about the oper­a­tion of the device itself.

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10. Hyundai H‑FH2-F10S

The South Kore­an com­pa­ny Hyundai also pro­duces cheap fan heaters with a spi­ral heat­ing ele­ment. If you do not expect too much from the device, then it will turn out to be a real find: it quick­ly heats the air, turns off when it over­heats, and is cheap. Of the minus­es: a short cord, the smell of plas­tic, dry air in the room.

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How to choose a fan heater

Vadim Maly­shev, an expert at a house­hold appli­ance store, told Kom­so­mol­skaya Prav­da how to choose the best fan heater, what char­ac­ter­is­tics and func­tions to pay atten­tion to.

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Brand

The lion’s share of bud­get fan heaters are actu­al­ly made in Chi­na, so when choos­ing a device, it is bet­ter to focus not on the coun­try of ori­gin, but on the brand: well-known com­pa­nies not only mon­i­tor the qual­i­ty of goods more vig­i­lant­ly, but also give decent terms for war­ran­ty repairs. True, such a device can­not cost 500–600 rubles.

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Heating element

Con­sid­er whether your fan heater will be on all the time or just for a cou­ple of hours. Such devices can work on spi­ral or ceram­ic heat­ing ele­ments, as well as on heat­ing ele­ments.

Devices with spi­ral heat­ing ele­ments are cheap­er, but they dry the air, dust and debris flies into them, which, burn­ing on the heat­ing ele­ment, smell. In addi­tion, the device itself is notice­ably heat­ed.

The heat­ing ele­ment is a met­al tube, which is filled with quartz sand, man­ganese oxide and a nichrome wire rod. Heat­ing ele­ments are very pow­er­ful, they are rarely bought for the home, they are main­ly used in pro­duc­tion.

Fan heaters with a ceram­ic heat­ing ele­ment are con­sid­ered the most durable and pro­duc­tive for home use today — they con­sume less elec­tric­i­ty and almost do not heat up, which means they will last longer.

Installation

Fan heaters are wall and floor. Wall-mount­ed ones look like air con­di­tion­ers, but with­out an out­door unit, they usu­al­ly come with a remote con­trol. The down­side is that they need to be mount­ed. Plus — they will not lat­er take up space on the floor and attract the atten­tion of chil­dren and ani­mals.

Floor fan heaters are more com­mon, they come in dif­fer­ent shapes and sizes, but in this case you need to look if the device has a shut­down func­tion not only in case of over­heat­ing, but also in case of a fall — oth­er­wise a fire may occur.

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What other fan features should I pay attention to?

If you want to be heat­ed by a fan heater around the clock, pay atten­tion to the reviews about how it makes noise — whether it is com­fort­able to place it in the bed­room. Also an impor­tant fac­tor is the back­light (it inter­feres with sleep for many) and the abil­i­ty to con­trol the device remote­ly. In addi­tion to the usu­al remote con­trol, man­u­fac­tur­ers have begun to intro­duce con­trol func­tions from smart­phones using Blue­tooth into fan heaters.

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