Our Overall Score:
8.9/10
Thanks for stopping by to read our HIVE Active Heating Multizone review. Here we’ll take a look at a range of the key features, benefits, positives and negatives to help you decide if HIVE Active Heating Multizone is right for you, or if you should be looking for a different product in the Smart Smart heating category.
Latest price search at Currys PC World: £95
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There are many factors that we consider when buying, and reviewing products like HIVE Active Heating Multizone. In this review we will take the 4 main considerations and look at how they stack up against the competition, be it other products from the same brand, Hive or alternative products in the Smart Smart heating category. The 4 factors that we’re going to explore now are, Quality, Price, Reviews and the overall score.
Quality of HIVE Active Heating Multizone
HIVE Active Heating Multizone scores 8.2/10 for quality in our review.
Quality is a very important factor when it comes to buying any product, but it’s particularly important with Smart Smart heating. It’s never going to be easy to get a real feel for the quality of a product without being able to see or even test it.
This is why it’s so important to read lots of customer reviews, where you will be able to get an understanding from many of the customers of HIVE Active Heating Multizone, just how good it is, in terms of quality. Take your time to read through the reviews looking for specific comments about the quality. It’s worth spending time looking for reviews from customers that have owned the product for some time as that will give you a really good idea of the product’s durability.
Our best advice for checking out the quality is reading reviews, but also use some of these to help you get an idea of the quality:
- Price: The old saying “you get what you pay for” is a good indication as to how good quality you should expect from a product.
- Specification: Check out the specs for HIVE Active Heating Multizone and see how they compare to your expectations and other products.
- Brand: Some brands are known for delivering amazing quality products, it’s a case of trying to find the Rolex equivalent for Smart Smart heating, but at a realistic and reasonable price.
- Previous experience: Have you ever owned any Smart Smart heating? Think about your experience of the product and how good it was. What brand was it? How much was it? What was it made from? All of these can help you when considering your options.
Price analysis
HIVE Active Heating Multizone scores 8.8/10 for price in our review.
Price is normally the most important factor when considering a purchase. Especially when you’re shopping online, it’s really easy for us to shop around now so we can easily compare prices of the same product against many retailers with just a few clicks. In fact here at Review Pros we do that leg work for you, by comparing many different retailers to find you the best price. But price is also a big factor for which product we choose too, not just which retailer.
To give an example, the most expensive product that we found in the Smart Smart heating category was £249.99, whilst the cheapest we found was £69.99 so there’s a significant variance in the prices that different products are available for. For this reason we always recommend that you set yourself a budget before you spend too much time shopping around for a product. It’s easy to get carried away and buying a much more expensive product than you really need, but setting a budget will help to avoid this.
As part of our price analysis we’re going to break the price of HIVE Active Heating Multizone down and compare it and analyse it in the following ways.
- Compare to other products in the same category
- Compare to other products from the same brand
- Compare to other products that fit both of the above (the same category and the same brand)
Prices of products in the Smart Smart heating category
Here we’re going to look at the prices you can expect to pay for products from the Smart Smart heating category. we’re opted to use Currys PC World for this comparison, as they offered the most competitive prices for HIVE Active Heating Multizone.
To start with, we look at the average price of a product in the Smart Smart heating category. This was £138.92 from the 14 products we found in that category. So HIVE Active Heating Multizone actually comes in below average at £95.
We then looked at the most expensive product in the category, which was £249.99 and the least expensive, which was £69.99. In total we found that of the 14, 9 were more expensive and 4 were less expensive, some products may have then had exactly the same price as HIVE Active Heating Multizone.
Prices of products from Hive
Next up, we wanted to look at products from the brand, Hive. Again we looked at the average price you can expect to pay for a product from Hive, which was £84.66 of the 18 products we found. So HIVE Active Heating Multizone price is above average for the brand.
The cheapest product we managed to find from Hive was £15 with the most expensive coming in at £249.99.
Prices of products from Hive and in the Smart Smart heating category
Then finally on our price analysis we wanted to dig a little deeper by looking at products from Hive that sit specifically within the Smart Smart heating category.
For this we found that the average price was £156.24, making HIVE Active Heating Multizone at £95 actually below average price.
Then we looked at the highest priced item that falls under this criteria, the price of this was £249.99 with the lowest priced item being £95. In total there were 3 items that were more expensive and 0 that was less expensive.
Reviews of HIVE Active Heating Multizone
HIVE Active Heating Multizone scores 9.8/10 for customer reviews in our review.
Perhaps one of the most important steps in choosing a product that you’re going to be buying online, is reading reviews. The more reviews you can read the better. Take your time to look through a range of different reviews, both good and bad as these will really give you the best insight into how good HIVE Active Heating Multizone is.
Overall score
HIVE Active Heating Multizone scores 8.9/10 overall in our review.
This part of the review takes the various scores for quality, price and customer reviews and combines them in order to provide you with one simple score to help you determine how good the product is overall. This score can then easily be compared to other products and be used as a benchmark.
There are of course many alternative products from Hive so feel free to take a look at some of the alternatives, but in the meantime check out the many reviews for HIVE Active Heating Multizone by clicking the View Reviews button at the bottom of your screen.
Additional information: HIVE Active Heating Multizone
- Brand: Hive
- Model Number: 10148129
- Add-on for Hive Active HeatingIncludes thermostat / receiverWorks with Amazon Alexa / Google Assistant / IFTTTControl up to 3 zones of heatingProfessional installation recommended
- EAN: 5054347000570
- Description: Add-on for your Hive Active HeatingUpstairs too warm and downstairs too cold? If you already have more than one heating zone in your home, then the Hive Active Heating Multizone Thermostat is for you. Each thermostat lets you set a different temperature in each zone, so you only heat the parts of your home you’re using.To get started you’ll need a Hive Active Heating kit (sold separately), then you can add up to 2 Multizone Thermostats to control up to 3 zones.Control your heating at home or from your mobileWith the Hive Active Heating Multizone you can operate your heating at home with the wireless thermostat, or using your mobile, tablet or laptop. Control your hot water and central heating with just a few taps, even if you’re at work, on public transport or out with friends.Helps to save money and energyBecause you only heat your home when necessary, the Hive Active Smart Thermostat helps to cut down on your energy bills, saving you money and making your home more eco-friendly.Works with your current heating systemYou won’t have to get a new boiler, heating system or energy supplier – Hive Active Heating works with what you have installed. If you have a separate hot water tank, it lets you control this too.It connects to your broadband router to link the thermostat to the internet. The receiver allow your boiler and thermostat to communicate, and you’ll hardly notice it’s there since it’s usually installed near your boiler.Fit heating and hot water control with your scheduleHave your home and water heated when you need it. Hive lets you turn your heating on or off, or adjust the level. Set between one and six heating time slots a day. The boost button lets you extend your heating outside your regular schedule – enjoy extra hot water for up to six hours.Geolocation sends reminders to your phone so you can remember to turn it on before you get in, or off when you leave the house. Enter vacation dates with Holiday mode to put your heating into sleep mode until you get back, so you can return to a warm house.To stop your pipes from freezing, Hive Active Heating will turn on should inside temperatures go below 7°C while the heating’s off.__________________________________Please note: Hive Active Heating Multizone must be installed by a qualified professional – installation is not included in this kit. Requires Hive Hub (sold separately).
- Product ID: 3645995487
