In terms of how much it would cost your fan heater to heat a room, this would depend on a variety of factors. These are: The brand of product you buy can vary in importance, from person to person. Some people will of course be much more particular about the brands they will use. Whilst others aren’t interested in the brand and are more interested in the overall quality or price of the product itself. Thankfully Challenge is a brand that many customers have grown to love over the years and is very popular for items in the Heaters and radiators category. If you do then find that Challenge 2kW Ceramic Fan Heater isn’t exactly as you thought it would be, you can easily return it. It's worth also bearing in mind that calculating the cheapest way to heat a room again depends on a number of variables, such as the size of your home and how energy-efficient it is, your heating requirements, and your energy provider. What are the disadvantages of a fan heater? Heaters that don’t form part of a property’s inbuilt central heating system are often, perhaps unfairly, maligned as hugely energy inefficient, but the truth is the cost depends on when, where, and how you use them.

So let’s carry on with our Challenge 2kW Ceramic Fan Heater review and explore the product’s pricing. Fan heaters can consume a lot of electricity in a short space of time, and are therefore best used in smaller and well insulated rooms. Price is another really important factor for analysing the quality of Challenge 2kW Ceramic Fan Heater vs other products in the Heaters and radiators category. It’s obvious, but you will need to set your expectations of quality based on your budget and the price of the product you’re looking at, against the price of alternatives. Looking for heating solutions like electric heaters and electric radiators? You’ve come to the right place. Our range of convector heaters are a great choice when it comes to providing some additional heat in your home. Put them on for a few hours at a time to help heat up an entire room, and with a timer and thermostat, you've got complete control. And to make your radiators seamlessly merge with your home’s décor, we’ve also got radiator covers in a wide variety of colours so you can heat up your space without compromising on style. Next up is material. Read through the product description for Challenge 2kW Ceramic Fan Heater to get an understanding of the materials the product is made from. Some materials will obviously be known for delivering better quality item than others. You might also have decided that you’ll only accept a product made from a particular material.Just before we get into the detail of analysing the price of this product, we want to briefly highlight the importance of setting yourself a budget before you spend too much time shopping around for a suitable product. It’s all too often that we get carried away when shopping and find ourselves buying a fantastic product, but probably actually overdelivers on what we need and therefore costs a lot more than we should have spent. So spend a bit of time looking around at the sort of price you can expect to pay for products in the Heaters and radiators category and use that alongside your own financial situation to set yourself a budget. If the brand you buy is important to you, our best advice is to spend some time writing up your own list of ideal brands. That way when you come to the point where you’re comparing product options you can filter to only show the products from brands in your list. If comparing the cost of central heating per hour versus how much a typical fan heater (2000W) costs to run per hour, it is likely to be cheaper to run your central heating rather than relying on fan heaters to heat your entire home. Central heating costs per hour are estimated at 12p per hour for gas central heating and 13p an hour for a heat pump, according to heating expert Martyn Bridges, who is director of technical services at Worcester Bosch. This estimate is based on a three-bedroom house with two to three people living in it. Meanwhile a typical 2000W fan heater would cost 68p per hour per fan heater. The next step after looking at products in the same category, was to look at products from the same brand, Challenge.

Of the 55 products, we discovered that 48 were more expensive and 5 were cheaper than Challenge 2kW Ceramic Fan Heater. Prices from Challenge The actual price of the product that you choose is of course one of the most vital aspects of choosing the right product, we will go into that in more detail in just a moment. The next step was to try and narrow down our search even more. So we’ve already looked the prices of products in the Heaters and radiators category. Then we’ve also looked at the prices of products from Challenge. So this step combines the two and looks specifically at the price you’d expect to pay for Challenge branded products in the Heaters and radiators category.More information on quality can be found in this old but still very helpful article from Harvard Business Review. Fan heaters can be moved between rooms and some are so small they can be placed on a desktop. They can also be installed in the wall or ceiling of a room. How much does it cost to run a fan heater per hour? No matter what type of heater or radiator you need, there's something here to suit all budgets and requirements. And you'll find designs from an array of leading brands, including Challenge, Dyson and Beldray. Why not look at our collection of Dimplex heaters? An oil heater also uses convection and they're great at retaining heat, so be sure to look at our selection of oil filled radiators too. Keeping your home warm will make for a cosy atmosphere, especially when the weather isn’t always the warmest. We've got you covered with everything you need to kit out your home and keep it cosy with our comprehensive range of heaters and radiators.