De'Longhi VV551225 Vento Oil Filled Radiator - 2.5 Kilowatt,(very light grey)

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My view is NO electrical appliance should be used in the bathroom unless it is designed for bathroom use and it correctly wired in by an electrician. A higher rating will obviously heat the oil to peak temperature faster, but once reached much less energy is generally needed to maintain oil temperature. It features the 'Venturi effect' in which an internal chimney-like structure increases convective air flow.

The safe design also fills you with confidence about using these heaters anywhere, and leaving them on near to clothes or kids and so on. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Obviously it's better design outweighed the bigger heating element, and I ended swapping the rads between rooms.The controls are simple - 3 heat settings, and a thermostat - this has worked reliably and keeps the room its in a nice balanced tempature. More expensive heaters or fixed wall mounted radiators often claim to be more efficient based on the fact they have more sophisticated thermostats and/or timers, so can avoid wasting energy by overheating the room. I know in the manual it does mention an odour when new but (apart from testing when I first got it) I had it on several hours yesterday and the odour seemed to disappear completely but then I went to put it on again today and it was back just as bad. Heater is used on a time switch to come on for 2 hours at lunchtime, then from midnight until 9 am and the bedroom is now nice and warm, and that's using the heater on its lowest setting (700kw) which hopefully means that when winter really arrives up here in the north Pennines, we have plenty of spare heating power.

Other than that this is a good reliable product and the heat it gives off is a long lasting comfortable heat far superior to fan heaters.I think if we had not wanted the machine in operation quickly we may have tried to find a white heater. I checked my electric power meter and switched the radiator between all 3 settings and these are the approximate power consumed on each setting. Mains gas per "unit" is cheaper than electricity, so gas central heating would be cheaper than having a house full of these heaters. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Bought two of these to survive a broken boiler over Christmas a few years ago, and have used one ever since under my desk in a cold office at work and one in my bedroom at home to help regulate the temperature as the room is often much cooler than the rest of the house due to the roof design.