Our Overall Score:
8.5/10
Thanks for checking out our Hive Active Heating & Hot Water with Self-Installation review. We’re here to give you the best reviews of this product and hopefully leave you confident in whether Hive Active Heating & Hot Water with Self-Installation is the right product for you, or if there’s perhaps a better alternative out there for a product in the Heating & Cooling category.
Latest price search at John Lewis & Partners: £139
The most important part of buying online can be to read reviews and that’s why you’re here. We’ve scanned the internet to find as many Hive Active Heating & Hot Water with Self-Installation reviews as we can, regardless if they’re good or bad as we want to give you the most truthful and realistic overview of just how good Hive Active Heating & Hot Water with Self-Installation is. In finding reviews, we discovered that the best and most informative reviews were from customers over at John Lewis & Partners, to read these review just tap on the View Reviews button now.
When it comes to buying products online, whether that’s a TV, clothes, Heating & Cooling or even a something like a sofa, there are a general set of guidance or advice that you can follow to help you get the best product for your needs and also the best for your budget. As you can imagine there are tons of different options in the Heating & Cooling category and even loads of options of products from Hive so it’s important to take the time to find the right one for you. The four areas that we want to delve in to a little more are the quality, the price of the product, what the reviews are saying about it and then finally we’ll look at an overall score which takes into account the other factors.
Quality of Hive Active Heating & Hot Water with Self-Installation
Hive Active Heating & Hot Water with Self-Installation scored an incredible 8.8/10 for quality.
As you’d expect with a lot of products, quality is a very important factor for choosing products in the “Heating & Cooling” category. But it’s even more important to consider and get a feel for quality when you’re buying online because you aren’t given the benefit of being able to see and try the item for yourself.
This is of course why we can’t stress enough the importance of reading lots of reviews, as it will really help you to get a good feel for how good the quality is. A top tip when reading the reviews is to use the search function on your browser and search for the word “quality” in the reviews that way you can skip straight to customers that have mentioned about the quality of Hive Active Heating & Hot Water with Self-Installation.
Once you’ve had a good look over the reviews you’ll have a pretty good indication of how good the quality of Hive Active Heating & Hot Water with Self-Installation is, but we also have the following factors that you should consider to get an idea of the quality of the product you’re looking at.
- Price: It probably sounds obvious, but there are links to the price you pay and the quality of a product. Try and set your expectations for the quality based on your budget. You wouldn’t expect a Rolls-Royce for the price of a Fiesta so bear this in mind when shopping.
- Specification: It’s a really good idea to look over the product description and specification section of the website, for Hive Active Heating & Hot Water with Self-Installation you can read the full details on the John Lewis & Partners website where it will give you all the detail you need. It’s useful as you’ll probably already have a good idea of the sort of specs that make good Heating & Cooling. Also compare these specs to other similar products that are in the same price bracket.
- Brand: Hive are obviously a strong and recognisable brand for making great Heating & Cooling, so you’d expect Hive Active Heating & Hot Water with Self-Installation to deliver to these expectations. But always consider the brand when you’re thinking about the quality of the product you’re going to buy, and where quality is an important factor to you, look only at those well known brands (of course only if your budget allows).
- Your experience with Heating & Cooling: You’ll no doubt have some history with buying Heating & Cooling, and you may have even bought products from the same brand, Hive, use this information to your advantage. You’ll probably have a good idea of how good the quality of the product was and any faults or floors you remember from it.
Price analysis of Hive Active Heating & Hot Water with Self-Installation
Hive Active Heating & Hot Water with Self-Installation scored highly with 8.7/10 for price in our review.
Price, a hugely important part of any purchase. Price becomes even more of a consideration when we’re shopping online because it’s so amazingly simple to compare the price of several retailers in literally just a few clicks. In fact you don’t even need to do that, we’ve run price comparisons for you in order to find the best price. The lowest price we’ve managed to find Hive Active Heating & Hot Water with Self-Installation for is just £139 over at John Lewis & Partners.
There’s a lot of geeky analysis to be done on price, but what we find most effective and informative is to look at 3 different figures when comparing products and that is the average price, the most expensive and the cheapest. This gives you a really good feel for what the normal product would cost but also giving you an idea of just how cheap you can find it or the opposite, just how expensive some are. It’s also useful to look at the average of the products that fit in the same category as well as products from the same brand. So we’re going to look in more detail now at the price of Hive Active Heating & Hot Water with Self-Installation.
Prices of products in the Heating & Cooling category
We thought it would be useful to spend a bit of time exploring the price of Hive Active Heating & Hot Water with Self-Installation and seeing how it compares to other similar products. And also seeing how much variance there are in prices of products in the Heating & Cooling category. To do this we looked at all of the products over at John Lewis & Partners, there were a total of 10 products in the Heating & Cooling, and of these 10 products the average price was £121.40, making Hive Active Heating & Hot Water with Self-Installation above average at £139. We also looked at the cheapest option in the same category which was just £26.99 whilst the most expensive was £399.00. So you can see there’s a huge variance in the price of products in this category, as an indication there were 64 products less expensive and 78 more expensive than Hive Active Heating & Hot Water with Self-Installation in this category. So we thought it would be worth going into a bit more detail and looking at the prices of products from Hive.
Prices of products from Hive
So the average price of the 32 products available from Hive was £69.09, making £139 above average against the other products from the same brand. With the most expensive product from them coming in at £249.00 and the cheapest at £11.99. We thought a good next step would be to look more specifically at products from Hive that fit in to the category of Heating & Cooling rather than looking at all their products.
Of the 4 products from Hive in the Heating & Cooling category, the average price is £156.50 making Hive Active Heating & Hot Water with Self-Installation below average at £139. Again we looked at how much price can vary and found that the cheapest product to fit this criteria was £99.00 and the most expensive was £249.00 so there are again a lot of varying prices with the products. In fact to be precise we found 2 products from Hive that were more expensive and 4 that were cheaper.
Reviews of Hive Active Heating & Hot Water with Self-Installation
Hive Active Heating & Hot Water with Self-Installation scores 8.1/10 for customer reviews.
Reviews are really the most valuable part of your online shopping, they’re giving you the next best thing to being able to actually try the product for yourself. You’re not relying on a manufacturers sales description telling you just how good their product is, you’re getting genuine feedback from actual users of the product. We can’t stress enough how important it is that you spend some time reading the reviews of Hive Active Heating & Hot Water with Self-Installation over at John Lewis & Partners, click on the “view reviews” button now to read them.
Below is a video we found for Hive Active Heating & Hot Water with Self-Installation over on YouTube.
Overall score
Hive Active Heating & Hot Water with Self-Installation got an amazing overall score of 8.5/10 in our review.
This figure takes into account the various criteria that we’ve covered above, the price, the quality and the customer reviews, in order to give you an overall score. This overall score of 8.5/10 then gives you a really easy figure to use for comparison purposes if you’re then going on to read any of our other reviews of Heating & Cooling.
As you’ve already seen in the pricing section there are absolutely loads of different options from Hive so take your time to read the reviews, do your homework on setting a budget and seeing how the price of Hive Active Heating & Hot Water with Self-Installation stacks up against your budget and make sure you also set yourself a list of “must-haves” so you know that this product ticks all your boxes.
More info: Hive Active Heating & Hot Water with Self-Installation
- Brand: Hive
- Model Number:
- EAN: 5054347004202
- Description: This Hive lets you control your home heating from the thermostat or your phone, wherever you are. If you have a hot water tank, you can control your hot water too. With such wireless functionality, you’ll never need to heat an empty home again, saving up to ¬£120 a year on energy bills. Easy to control Hive’s active heating system can control your heating and hot water (if you have a hot water tank) from your mobile, tablet or laptop. Just download the Hive app on to your Android, Windows or iOS Smartphone to access all the key features through your home broadband. All connected – your Hive kit Keeping the set-up and operation simple, the Hive has thought of everything you’ll need to get the system going. The Wireless Thermostat lets you control your heating and hot water when you’re at home. The Hub plugs into your broadband router to enable your thermostat to be controlled remotely. And the Receiver lets your thermostat and boiler talk to each other when they are fitted close to your boiler. Works with your smart voice assistant This Hive thermostat works with both the Google Assistant and Alexa, so you can adjust it with just your voice via compatible smart devices (sold separately). Key features Heating and Hot water schedules – set up to 6 daily time slots Heating Boost – for up to six hours Automatic Frost Protection – helps prevent frozen pipes Geolocation – heating alerts when you leave or return home Holiday Mode – tell Hive your holiday dates and come back to a warm welcome Child lock – set a pin lock on your app or thermostat Text control – send your command to Hive by text Temperature graphs – keep track of how you are using your heating What you’ll need A working central heating system, Hive can be installed on gas or LPG systems (and certain Electric Boilers) An existing broadband connection with a spare Ethernet port connection An extra power socket close to your broadband router An Android or iOS smartphone if you want to use your mobile to control your heating and hot water via the Hive app An up-to-date web browser to use the online dashboard (IE10+, Chrome, Safari or Firefox) A Hive online account (activated using the activation code in the enclosed booklet). Perfect Partner Choose the right colour frame for your Hive¬† here . Help this beautiful gadget sink in to your decor and stay safe.¬† Explore Hive’s Stunning Smart Home Assortment Enjoy the interactive guide through Hive’s exciting range here Please note: this product does not include installation. You can either install it yourself or take a look at Hive Active Heating with Professional Installation.
- Product ID: 25382771195
- Category: Electricals > Heaters, Fans & Dehumidifiers > View all Heaters
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