Swan SFA12630 - Reviews
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4.7.2018
It's that time of the year folks! Everybody who can't afford a Dyson superfan rushes out and buys a cheap generic white plastic fan! I do it every year . . .but not this year. No more plastic for me. I want good old fashioned metal muscle - teeth - power and a bit of a looker. I found it. I'll just say it from the get go - I'm a big fan of this fan!What do you get?It's a meaty bit of kit and arrived well packaged. I have uploaded a few pics of the item unboxed so you can see all the parts.Pretty easy to put together - two people would make it much easier but it is doable if on your own. Simply put it's just a case of building the stand - attaching the motor - attach the back mesh guard - attach the fan - attach the front mesh guard!
2.6.2017
I have been using this for about 3 weeks. Initially i was a little disappointed at the amount of plastic on this fan (because i was expecting it to all be metal after looking at the questions and answers on this item...), but, having used it for a good few weeks and inspecting it to see weather i wanted to upgrade, i think i can safely say it is a very well made efficient fan and i'm definitely going to keep it. Although isn't made of as much metal as i would have initially liked, the plastic is it made from is very thick and good quality. None of it feels weak or cheap in any way, it all feels heavy, strong and well made. It looks nice as well with the vintage styling,
30.7.2018
Like a lot of recent reviewers, the heatwave of summer '18 has caused many to acquire any fan they could get their hands on. At the time of ordering there weren't a lot of fans in stock but this one looked like a reasonable fan.Firstly I think it's a pretty nice looking fan. I went for the bland black colour but the more colourful options looked great. I didn't find assembling too tricky, although they diagram isn't brilliant, but looking at the photo of the fan on the box provided enough extra detail.I already have a Dyson fan as a point of comparison. The Swan noisier but not so bad that it kept me awake (I'm a light sleeper too). It has three settings, and it's lowest is actually pretty powerful,
27.11.2018
Overall a very pleasing retro looking fan with solid build quality.It was a slight headache to put together because logic would dictate that you put screws in a small, easy to spot bag. Well from what I recall I had a screw or two trapped in the recesses of the box and they could have made their way out. Luckily they didn't and I was up and running in no time.The fan is noisy - it has to be expected. A silent fan in this day and age is a rarity and fans back in the 80's were loud so one could say this mimics the real thing. Purchased to handle the summer heatwave of 2018 that hit the Uk my wife and I had no issues with the noise at night truth be told.It was used for about a month or two and we had no issues during that time.
27.8.2016
Don't know what other people are on about with regards to the noise. This fan is not as noisy as i expected. In fact it's rather quiet.As for the wind speeds, it's also not as bad as people are making out. Yeah, if you have loads of papers about, they will fly. But if you want a fan that will keep you cool on really hot days, and won't make much of a noise, while also looking great then this is a top buy.The base is metal, the fan blades are metal. The stalk is shiny plastic. But its hard to tell that it's plastic just by looking at it. You have to assemble it, but it's easy as hell. I'm autistic and found it a piece of cake, and it was assembled in seconds. The fan itself looks great,
23.6.2017
Really pleased with the fan, it has got the look, good breeze, good size for a bedroom, good to leave it on sideboard chest. The higher speed setting the louder it gets. Setting one is good breeze and quiet enough to leave it on while sleeping. I also got the taller 16" one, that one is also brilllant, the setting 1 is equivelent to the setting 2 of this one, good for larger kitchen dinner living room. Plastic motor cover and plastic pile bothered me a bit in the beginning, but I quickly got over it as they are all in the same colour! my husband is very happy with if too! We wanted to get a fan for many years now, very please to have made the right decision with the good discounted price!
26.9.2019
Looks great in my bedroom nice grey colour goes with my decor you do not have to put this together as it works straight from the box I use it every night on 1 it blows a nice cold breeze on my face while in bed as a lady of a certain age ,I was worried that it was going to be noisy but is not noisy at all it has a very soft whirling sound which helps you drift off to sleep I have put some white tack on feet at the back of the fan so that it tilts slightly forward as my my chest of drawers is rather high and I needed the cool air to blow down on to me the feet are very sturdy and there's no rattle to the fan highly recommend his Swan retro fan
6.1.2020
VIBRATES when turned on and shakes the bedside table. Think the blades or centre hole is misaligned. Have contacted Swan for help, will update.Swan customers services read our Messenger message but ignored it, twice, they read our Facebook message and told us to email them but gave us an email address that didn’t work. So eventually we returned the fan for a replacement with amazon who as usual were great.The fan itself is solid, mostly metal and powerful. There is a noise to it but it’s calming if you like that sort of thing which I do. It’s by our bed and it’s lovely. The replacement fan doesn’t vibrate and is perfect.
5.8.2020
Brilliant fan overall considering you purchase it for a reasonable price.PROS:- Definitely effective cooling, even on speed 1 its much faster than my existing fan of the same size.- Looks very stylish.- Power cable quality is very premium.- Good degree of rotation.CONS:- Not very quiet on the slowest speed, would definitely have it off at night if your a light sleeper and its in the bedroom.- A bit fiddly to assemble but not agonizing.- The center cap with the swann logo rattled a bit, had to take it out and put some blu-tac on the inside before fixing it back on. 4 bendable metal arms hold it in place.
24.7.2017
Arrived extremely quickly. Not the easiest to put together, but then again for are hopeless at any DIY. The fan itself looks stylish and of good quality. It's very sturdy. And the 3 power settings are a lot more effective than I'd imagined - it really does cool the room down effectively! The higher power settings are a little bit noisy but not sure what you'd expect - to get a silent but powerful fan you would have to spend a lot more. I could certainly sleep with the first power setting on, which in itself is quite strong. Overall I would highly recommend this especially for the price.
11.8.2018
With the summer we've had, these were amazing! I bought the 12 inch desk fan in cream and the taller bigger one in blue. I love the colours and the retro look, but aside from that they are so powerful. We normally only use setting 1 or 2 at most. With the 3rd one it can feel a bit like a hurricane. The little one keeps our whole living room cool and isn't too noisy so we can still watch films. The large one we leave on oscillate before bed and the room is like a fridge! It's like we have air conditioning. I'm a light sleeper but the noise level is fine for me. So happy with these!
4.8.2018
One you have it up and running its a grand fan and stylish too. Noise levels low.Instructions poor, so when I put this together it would not work - 10 mins head scratching and realised the rubber spindle cover is too long - once the fan is mounted rubber sleeve pushes back into the motor and stops rotating. Nowhere do the instructions suggest you might need to trim this by a 1cm or 2. May be a manufacturing glitch on my particular fan but suggest check yours rotates freely when fan mounted before finishing putting together. But for this would have given 5 stars.
27.5.2020
We bought 2 of these fans, 1 in blue and the other in cream. Both fans have an appealing aesthetic and overall work very nicely. Firstly we assembled the cream fan with little difficulty, we then turned it on and had no issues with noise. However with the blue fan we did find it rattled. You can fix this by tightening the silver 'thingy' that holds the fan blades in place. Both are now as quiet as you can get without splashing out for a bladeless fan.To sum it up, this fan is a nice design, not too noisy and look brilliant in most rooms!
9.6.2018
Simple and looks very retro. I got the blue and it's a classic 50's style colour.The fan is very solid and has minimal vibration or rattles so it's not distracting in my study. It has 3 speeds, controlled by a wheel on the top and an oscillate function. The only downside for me is the lowest speed setting is quite powerful. Not ideal if you just want a gentle breeze.The fan is easy to disassemble for cleaning but I've found on the whole it doesn't seem to clog up with dust nearly as quickly as similar sized plastic fans I've had.
14.6.2017
There are many makes of desk fan, most of which are cheaper than this one, but if you want a quality fan that not only functions efficiently with low fan noise and also looks like a quality product then the extra is worth paying . It is stable and beautifully designed such that all the parts fit perfectly together, is not plastic looking and nice solid looking shiny black base and body with chrome guards. It assembled in 10 minutes and was easy to do. I was so impressed I purchased a blue one also.