Very good price - but fan stays on when heat goes off!

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SilverCrest Fan Heater with Remote Control Shelf 2000 A1
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andyr's review of SilverCrest Fan Heater with Remote Control Shelf 2000 A1

“Very good price - but fan stays on when heat goes off!”

★★★★☆

written by andyr on 27/12/2011

Haven't had this for long (only 4 Hours!) but first impressions pretty good. My wife bought this out of Lidl store in Ireland.
First the plusses:

(+) well its got a remote control, you might think why? but I think its a good Idea to have one rather than not. if your away from the heater but want to turn it on. then you dont even have to get up off your A*se to turn it on or off or adjust the cut off temperature, you can also time the fan heater, turn oscillating feature on and off and also heat power (1kw or 2kw) using the remote control as well as the electronic buttons on the front of the unit.

(+) It has a safety Cut Off Switch underneath it, if the Fan Heater gets knocked over the total power to the fan heater gets cut off to prevent the risk of fire, the Heater also has a thermal cut out inside so if it overheats it cuts off the element.

(+) It has a built in thermometer (small digit though) on the Display (which lights up a nice blue colour by the way) which tells you the room temperature. The Fan Heater has another great feature, Set temperature in the display in centigrade (again another tiny digit) and when the room reaches that temperature the power will be cut to the heating elements, notice I say cuts the power to the heating elements but does not turn off the fan/blower er continuing to blow out cold Air!! - not quite sure why you wouuld want to have cold air being blown out in a room which you are trying to heat up but there you go there must be a valid reason to design it that way!!

(+) the affordable Price only €20 - I mean you could pay more than that for even a standard fan heater.

Minuses in my opinion:

(-) No Cord storage on heater.
(-) Some of the indicators/text on the LCD Display are too small.
(-) When room reached temperature the fan stays on blowing out cold air!
(-) Timer on display but from what I can make out you can not set the heater to turn on at a later time such as turn on heater in 6 or 8 Hours.
(-) only used for a couple of hours from new and the fan/blower has started to go a little bit noisy already!
(-) more buttons could have been put on remote to make it easier to use.
(-) quite confusing to use for the first time you really need to read that instruction booklet first before jumping in and using it in my opinion.

Conclusion: on the whole I am pretty impressed especially with the 'Gadgety' features, lets hope I get a good couple of years out of it at least we shall see but even if I dont I have found in the past that Lidl store has an excellent after sales service and will normally accept back the item and will either refund the money in full or exchange the faulty item for you so you can buy in confidence!

Andy. County Sligo, Ireland.

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Michellelesley's Response to andyr's Review

Written on: 23/10/2019

Is it a portable one? So it doesn't need to be plugged in all the time?

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Michellelesley's Response to andyr's Review

Written on: 23/10/2019

Is it a portable one? So it doesn't need to be plugged in all the time?

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