OSCILLATES: This electric fans cooling provides an even greater area coverage and its timer function allows you to set the electric fan for anywhere between 1 - 18 hours. 2 YEAR GUARANTEE, ULTRA POWERFUL - The Futura stand fan comes complete with 5 high quality ABS fan blades providing a luxury amount of cool air. The Tower fan is an ideal addition to any household. WARRANTY: This NETTA product comes with a 365-day warranty to give you peace of mind when purchasing one of our products. As you can imagine, pricing is one of the most important factors of any purchasing decision. We can find the perfect product for our needs, that fits the brief in every single way. But if it doesn’t fit our budgets, we simply can’t (or at least shouldn’t) buy it. Of the 37 products, we discovered that 13 were more expensive and 19 were cheaper than Challenge 16 Inch Pedestal Fan. Prices from Challenge You’re never guaranteed a scorching summer in the UK, but when the heat hits, the best fans will keep you cool, calm and collected. Indeed, a good blast of air from a decent fan can keep things bearable and help you get some shuteye when the mercury is rising. Here we’ve rounded up the best fans on the market so that you can find the perfect desk fan for your office, tower fan for your lounge, or whisper-quiet fan to help you sleep at night.

The next step was to try and narrow down our search even more. So we’ve already looked the prices of products in the Fans 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 Fans category. REMOTE CONTROL: The Futura fans standing oscillating pedestal fan comes with a remote control for your convenience and ease of use, a LED display, and simple to use control panel enables you to change the bedroom fan settings with the touch of a button. The room fan can be adjusted in size by removing the tubes to provide you with your desired height, 3 fixed points removable Adjustable heights - 1- desk fan size - 68cm, Childs bed height 100cm, Adult bed size - 1.30cm. Ideal for the familyECO FRIENDLY: The versatile electric cooling fan runs at an amazingly low 50W making it one of the most economical fans on the market, due to its low power consumption. This enables you to run the cooling fan all day, without the worry of running up expensive bills. *50W Eco ultra-low running costs less than 1p per hour based on standard UK energy tariffs. Sound power level 57 dB(A)

ADJUSTABLE HEIGHT AND OSCILLATION: The height of this fan can be adjusted between 1.1 metres and 1.3 metres which allows for a cool breeze no matter where you are in the room. A wide-angle oscillation feature allows the fan to oscillate up to 80° which makes it ideal for both solo use and in a room with multiple people. Key specs – Dimensions: 38 x 28 x 28cm; Weight: 3.4kg; Oscillation angle: 90 degrees vertical/ 90 degrees horizontal; Cord length: 2m; Warranty: 2 years; Power: 14W More information on quality can be found in this old but still very helpful article from Harvard Business Review.AIR SPEEDS: Choose from one of the three wind speed settings which provides you with cool air all year round, the three fan settings allow you to choose the correct mode for your desired comfort. 16 inch Head with 14" Blades. HIGH QUALITY FINISH - The Futura floor fan has a luxury matt coated finish. 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. So let’s carry on with our Challenge 16 Inch Pedestal Fan review and explore the product’s pricing. Next up is material. Read through the product description for Challenge 16 Inch Pedestal Fan 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. While it’s one of the taller tower fans we’ve tested, it’s worth making room for Levoit’s 36-inch Tower Fan. Look beyond the two-part plastic base and it’s a well-built unit with no hint of wobble, with stylish and straightforward touch controls on the top panel. It also has some useful advanced features, including an Auto mode that adjusts the speed according to the room temperature, and a Sleep mode that will do its best to keep you cool while staying quiet. There’s also a Turbo mode for some extra speed, plus a simple one to 12-hour off timer.However, what we like most about this tower fan is that it offers an efficient and economical way to cool a larger area. It pushes through air at speeds of up to 3.2m/sec at the highest of its five speed settings, or 3.3m/sec in Turbo mode. True, it’s a little loud when maxed out, at 44.4 to 45.2dB, but on its next to lowest setting you can still hit speeds of 2.1m/sec, with the noise reduced to around 32dB. On its lower settings it uses only around 20W as well. Throw in the competitive price, and you have a great tower fan for bigger rooms.

The next step after looking at products in the same category, was to look at products from the same brand, Challenge. THREE FAN SPEEDS AND TIMER: This pedestal fan features three different fan speed settings and a 7-hour timer with automatic shut-off. This allows you to find your perfect settings and means you don’t have to worry about turning the fan off if using it whilst sleeping or whilst not in the room, simply set the timer for however long you want the fan to be on and relax. 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 Fans category and use that alongside your own financial situation to set yourself a budget. The first is brand. Looking at the brand of the product is often a really good indicator for judging product quality. For example you’d expect a much higher quality product from a brand known for providing excellent quality than you would from an unknown or even a budget brand. Floor fans are larger, more powerful and are designed to fill a bigger space. As they’re designed to be used at a distance, they might offer more angles, a wider oscillation range and a remote control. This is handy if you want to turn the fan up or down from the bed or even just pause it while you take a phone call. Otherwise, they’re very similar to desk fans and have the same kind of features – in fact, there’s plenty of overlap between the two.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 Fans category. It’s a similar story with pedestal fans, which are basically more powerful desk fans on a stand that are designed to cool a larger area. You can usually adjust the height, pivot and oscillation to control airflow, but they tend to be bulkier than tower fans so you’ll need to make sure you have enough space – both for use and for storage. Assembly is easy, and connecting it to your smartphone and Wi-Fi network using the GeoSmartPro app is a simple enough process. From there, you can create daily schedules, preset modes and even auto-modes that will switch the fan on to a custom setting when specific weather conditions are met. It’s also compatible with Alexa and Google Home devices, although you can’t alter as many settings using your voice as you can when using the app or physical controls. QUIET AND SAFE OPERATION: This fan can operate at a low noise level, as low as 50db if needed, whilst still providing you with a strong cooling effect. The large, heavy-duty base will provide additional stability for the fan during its operation. The built-in overheat protection will automatically switch the fan off if the motor overheats.

You can change the direction of this airflow up and down by sliding the dome part up and down, and the fan can also be set to oscillate automatically using the small remote control that attaches magnetically to the front panel. The next step for us was to look at all of the products that fall within the Fans category, of which we found 37 products at Argos. So we pulled together all of the prices of these products to analyse the average prices as well as finding the cheapest and most expensive options. You can also change fan speed with the remote and these range from one (which is virtually silent) to ten and are indicated on the circular OLED status panel set into the base. Key specs – Dimensions: 77.3 x 28.8 x 29.3cm; Weight: 5.1kg; Oscillation angle: 90 degrees (horizontal), 60 degrees (vertical) Cord length: 1.6m; Warranty: 2yrs; Power: 20W Price is another really important factor for analysing the quality of Challenge 16 Inch Pedestal Fan vs other products in the Fans 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.The oscillation and tilt function will ensure directional airflow reaches a wider area for more thorough results, so that the cool air can be circulated throughout the room or focused on a particular area. With the adjustable height, you will be able to stay fresh at any angle and when rotating at an extremely high speed, you will ensure to keep yourself cool in the summer months. If you need more cooling power, you’ve still got it. At the top speed we measured airflow at 2.7m/sec, with a noise level of just 42dB. You’ve got a choice of touch-sensitive controls on the fan itself and a slightly cheap-feeling remote, while the efficient DC motor keeps power consumption to between 2W and 8.1W. While not as powerful as the Dimplex Xpelair 360 or the MeacoFan 360, this is the fan to go for if you prize your peace and quiet above all else. Fans aren’t generally that expensive to run – even the most powerful models we’ve tested use around 40W when running at maximum speed. However, the most energy-efficient models we’ve tested consume under 20W at full blast and less than 5W at their lowest speed, which could make a difference to your bills if you’re running the fan all summer long. You can also keep your costs low by using any timer features, which can be set to shut the fan off after a set period. We’ve even seen some fans that can regulate their speed according to the ambient temperature, or that have a sleep setting where the fan slows down gradually over the course of the night.