Spending £400 on a fan.....

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A Dyson room fan to be precise.

Don’t sleep at all well in the summer and house really holds the heat. Have tried cheap rotor blade fans before but the noise keeps me awake.

Torn between thinking it will really improve quality of life and thinking it’s a ridiculous amount of money to spend.

Any opinions?

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Another one who’d love a recommendation to a specific air con unit if anyone can share? Our bedroom is in the roof and gets unbearably hot in summer even with a fan

I recently joined Witch? On the one month for £1 to look up fans and air purifiers.

Dyson fans didn't rate at all

I bought a Dyson tower fan on a whim from TK Maxx a couple of years ago. It’s fantastic. Really quiet.

Tried one recently and they're useless. Made not a scrap of difference.

Recommend the portable air con unit too, would be cheaper and far cooler than a Dyson fan.

We have a Delonghi portable air-con unit. It’s about the size of a small tumble drier and has wheels. Bought it second hand from gumtree for £50. Absolute bargain! Wouldn’t be without it. We have 2 attic bedrooms that get so hot in the summer. I switch it about an hour before the kids are due to go to bed. It sucks out all of the hot air and blasts in icy cool air. It’s great!

The life changing thing for me has been a velux open on both sides of our loft room at once, to get a through draft. Brilliant. An ordinary fan pointing out of one velux speeds the cooling up too.

Living in a hot, humid part of Australia, I've got a mix of ceiling fans and aircon. Ceiling fans are great up to around 30-32 degrees. After that aircon is good. Ceiling fans give great circulation, which is sometimes all you need. Way better than any free standing fan and significantly quieter.

@BornOnThe4thJuly Your Meaco fan gets good reviews (it's quite chunky though).

Can it be locked in one direction and is there any 'up/down'adjustment or does it have to oscillate please?

I think I might go for that and save £300, as the Dyson praises haven't exactly been ringing out!

www.argos.co.uk/product/4356114?clickSR=slp:term:air%20conditioner:2:5:1

I got this air con unit last year in the heatwave and I would save it in a house fire. Cooled the horrible loft room right down from 32 to about 19 in an hour and it was perfect. We just stuck the tube out the window, it’s on wheels so we can move it around the rooms as well. Highly recommend.

Would also recommend buying before the heat really kicks in because they become few and far between quite quickly!

We were bought a small ac unit when we moved into our house last year and it's amazing. Fans just blow the hot air where are ac units remove the moisture to cool the air and are well worth the investment. They can be cheaper than those Dyson fans too.

I’m tierd and misread tan, £400 on a tan

I then thought dyson had brought out a tan for at night 😫🙈😅

Ex husband recently bought them for our children's bedrooms at his house. Prior to that, they had complained of his house being stuffy and hot.
Honestly, it has been a total gamechanger for them. They love their Dyson fans! In particular my eldest who starts to feel sick when too hot (she loves my flat as it's basement, and always freezing ).

I bought a Dyson fan and wasn't impressed. Then I bought a Meaco fan and have since bought 2 more because they are fab and quiet.

Very bulky though. It's a bit of a quirky look if you have them in your rooms.

We have the one hat glows hot or,cold,air. It's been great and much better than our previous normal fan.

I did this a few years ago. Beautifully quiet for the first year and now it sounds like any old fan. I've taken it apart to clean in the hope it would become silent again, but no difference.

My verdict:
Noisy and expensive but looks modern.

@lidoshuffle

Yes you can lock them in any position and they move up/down & left/right They are very big, apparently this is how they manage to be so quiet, according to my partner who’s an electrician and knows about stuff like that. It’s almost silent on the lowest setting but enough to make you feel more comfortable to sleep. I considered the Dyson but after reading loads of reviews decided against it and I’m very glad I did.

Hi everyone I have a Dyson fan with heater don't rate it at all. The heater is great the cool fan not.
Maybe it's just the combination ones. The dearest cool dehumidifier looks good but Is about £600 but no guarantee it's going to be any better than mine. Personally I wouldn't purchase another one unless I went somewhere and tested it and definitely not a combination one. X

Thanks BornOnThe4thJuly, that's very helpful.

They do smaller ones which are even quieter (more like desk, rather than room, fans) so it's useful what your partner says. They are bit lumps though, but who cares as long as they work! :)

I wouldn’t give Dyson a penny of my cash. I haven’t forgotten brexit

Mixed views but I think overall it’s a ‘no’ for the Dyson. TBH I’ve had 2 Dyson vacuums and they’ve quite quickly become RUBBISH so why I’m contemplating buying more Dyson products is beyond me. Guess the marketing and design works but it seems very style over substance.

Will check out some of the other brands recommended.

No fan will reduce the temperature. Get an air conditioner.

We have a Dyson fan, it’s crap it just blows the air around pathetically, my £15 Sainsbury’s regular fan one is better! We did buy an air con unit last summer (East Facing, 1930s house with 3m windows, it’s like living in a greenhouse) and it was brilliant, especially on that 38 degree day. It was the cheapest one on AO and cost the same as the Dyson fan.

@redwinestillfine. They are Dimplex. They were £70 each so much cheaper than those being talked about here. They work well for the four of us.

I was really just making the point that if you store these things properly and look after them they will keep you cool through heatwaves for years so the cost is forgotten.

I have the dyson desk top cool room fan
I think I paid £160 last year it’s brilliant
Really cools you down and it’s so light you can move it from room to room

I also bought at the same time the one that is the air purifier but I didn’t like that so sent it back
I would buy direct from Dyson if you can they do monthly interest free payments if you don’t want to pay up front and you have a month to try it out as well