Our Overall Score:
8.7/10
Thanks for stopping by to read our HIVE Active Heating 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 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: £139.99
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There are many factors that we consider when buying, and reviewing products like HIVE Active Heating. 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
HIVE Active Heating scores 9.3/10 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, 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 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 scores 8.1/10 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 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.
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 actually comes in above average at £139.99.
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, 5 were more expensive and 7 were less expensive, some products may have then had exactly the same price as HIVE Active Heating.
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 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 at £139.99 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 1 items that were more expensive and 1 that was less expensive.
Reviews of HIVE Active Heating
HIVE Active Heating scores 8.8/10 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 is.
Overall score
HIVE Active Heating scores 8.7/10 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 by clicking the View Reviews button at the bottom of your screen.
Additional information: HIVE Active Heating
- Brand: Hive
- Model Number: 10148131
- Control your home’s heating from your smartphone or tabletIncludes thermostat / hub / receiverWorks with Amazon Alexa / Google Assistant / IFTTTSet daily heating schedulesProfessional installation recommended
- EAN: 5054347000358
- Description: With an all-new wall-mounted thermostat control unit, Hive Active Heating looks great and can reduce the heating bills in any home. With control from your mobile, laptop or tablet, you’ll never need to heat an empty home again.Smart heatingHive Active Heating connects you and your heating system via an app on your mobile device to give you convenient control over operating times from wherever you are.With no wiring or fitting to worry about, you can focus on the ease of use and energy efficiency benefits available.Avoid heating an empty homeUp to six heating events can be scheduled throughout the day, so you can wake up in comfort, cut the heating while the house is empty and return to a comfortable home after a long day at work. Frost protectionAutomatic Frost Protection maintains a safe temperature during cold spells to avoid damage to your pipes. Once the temperature drops to a certain level, Frost Protection maintains a user-definable temperature of at least 7°C that not only prevents damage, but can be programmed to keep your home comfortable.Whatever your everyday settings, when the weather takes a turn for the worse you’re won’t be left in the cold.GeolocationBased on your phone’s location, Hive will send you reminders to turn your heating on before you get home.You’ll also get an alert if you’ve left it on when you go out, so you can quickly turn it off with the app.Holiday mode is ideal when you’re away for a long time. It puts your heating into a sleep state until you get home, so you aren’t paying to heat a completely empty house.__________________________________Please note: Hive Active Heating must be installed by a qualified professional – installation is not included in this kit.
- Product ID: 3670288789