Honeywell Fan - Turbo High Performance Fan Review

So you think fans are just for summer?  No way!  The Honeywell High Velocity Turbo Force Table Fan Model HT-800 is better than even its name indicates.  And the advance of cooler weather doesn't mean this baby goes in storage.

The Honeywell Turbo Force Fan's a regular little powerhouse when it comes to evacuating smoke from a room.  You say you've never had a fireplace fire and forgotten to open the damper?  (Lucky you, if not.)  But if you do, think twice about opening every window in the house on a cold evening.  The Turbo Fan, faced outward in a single window and blasting at the highest of its three speeds, will give you a tremendous head start on clearing the air.

TunefulPal and I are specialists at "overcooking" in the kitchen.  When the fire alarm screeches shrilly in the hall, we have to shut the kitchen doors to make it stop.  Meanwhile, we're in a small kitchen full of cooking odors, burning food and smoke.  After turning the food off and closing the doors, we rush a Turbo Fan in to hasten dispersal of smoke and odors.  Winter storage for all our Turbo Fans would be a handicap.

Yes... fan with an "s".  We bought our first Honeywell Turbo Fan at Bed, Bath and Beyond years ago using one of "Triple B's" ubiquitous coupons.  We bought our second Turbo Fan days just days later the same way. 

TunefulPal and I currently have four Turbo Fans.  All are black, the most commonly available color.  With all our useage and in at least a dozen years, we've had only one poop out on us.  Frankly, I think it was just exhausted (pun unintended).

In the summertime, one or more of our Turbo Fans runs pretty much 24/7.  With window air conditioners, we do some manipulation to move the chilled air around our 85-year-old house. The Turbo Fan has a 5-year warranty.

Finally, labelling the Honeywell Turbo Fan a "table fan" does it an injustice.  Even the box shows a picture of this three-speed fan mounted on the wall!   That's our intention as the single gas heater in our dining/family room starts to pump out heat this winter.

With the Turbo mounted on our very large doorway into the livingroom, we can turn one hotbox of a room and one icebox of another room into two rooms with comfortably distributed heat.  (Other old-unretrofitted-house owners will understand what we mean.)  The mounting is made possible by the fact that the face of the fan pivots up to 90 degrees.

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NOTE:  The HT-800 has a new, 900 model succeeding it.  Claims about the new model relate to greater energy efficiency and less noise.  I'm anxious to try one.  But, in the meantime, HT-800s are plentiful in their usual, wide $15-$30 price range and, on several websites, much lower than that.