Best Comfort is the fan and heater brand for the plain jobs: a box fan in the window on a July night, a high-velocity fan moving air through a shop, a pedestal fan for a bedroom with no air conditioning, and a quartz heater pointed at the workbench in January. The products are picked to do one thing well, and they come with the numbers you need to choose.
Best Comfort is a house brand of fans and heaters made for the home, the workspace and the job site. The fan line covers box, wall, window, pedestal and tower fans in several sizes and speeds; the heater line covers infrared, portable electric and electric utility space heaters.
The 20-inch box fan
The 20-inch three-speed box fan is the fan for the window: 21 inches high, 20.5 wide and 4 deep, 120 volts, ETL/UL listed, with a carry handle and no assembly. Set it in a window facing out after sundown and it pulls the day’s heat out of the house and the cool valley air in, which is how a house in the Flathead stays comfortable through August without air conditioning. In the morning, close the windows and it stays cool until afternoon.
Buy the three speeds for the low setting; a box fan on low is the white noise that gets a bedroom through a hot night.
High-velocity fans for a shop or garage
The 20-inch high-velocity fan is a different class of machine. It moves 3,850 cubic feet a minute on low, 4,550 on medium and 5,600 on high, from a 1/5-horsepower motor drawing 145 watts and 1.2 amps at 120 volts. It is all-metal with chrome guards, tilts a full 360 degrees, and has a three-wire grounded cord, a rotary switch, three blades, a 135-degree reset thermostat, and a 6-foot cord with a built-in 5-amp fuse. It is UL listed and OSHA compliant, and it measures 22.6 inches high, 25-3/4 wide and 11-1/2 deep.
That is the fan for a post-frame shop, a pole barn or a garage where you are sanding, painting or running a small engine with the door up. Five thousand six hundred cubic feet a minute is a lot of air for a garage with the door up, and the 360-degree tilt lets you aim it at the floor to dry a wet slab after you hose it out, or up at the ceiling to push the heat back down in winter. An all-metal fan takes a knock from a tailgate that would crack a plastic one. The 18-inch version moves 4,550 CFM on high for a smaller shop.
Pedestal and floor fans for the house
The 16-inch oscillating pedestal fan has three speeds, adjusts from 38 to 49 inches high, and its head tilts and locks. Wide-room oscillation and a deep-pitch blade move air across a whole bedroom or living room, the plastic body and grill do not rust, and the copper motor runs on permwick lubrication, so there is nothing to oil. Set it at 49 inches to blow across a bed, or at 38 to push air along the floor of a living room on a still August evening.
The 12-inch three-speed floor fan is the small one: three blades, a vertically tilting head, a built-in handle, a dial knob, plastic construction, a 6-foot cord with a 5-amp fuse, 50 watts, ETL listed. It fits on a workbench, under a desk or on the floor of a camper, and at 50 watts it can run all day off a small inverter at a hunting camp.
A 6-inch two-speed battery-operated portable fan, an 18-inch oscillating wall-mount fan and a 12-inch mini tower table fan fill in the line.
| Fan | Size | Speeds | Air moved | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Box fan | 20 in. | 3 | Window fan, carry handle, no assembly, ETL/UL | |
| High-velocity | 20 in. | 3 | 3,850 / 4,550 / 5,600 CFM | All-metal, 360-degree tilt, 1/5 hp, OSHA/UL |
| High-velocity | 18 in. | 3 | 4,550 CFM high | Smaller shop |
| Pedestal, oscillating | 16 in. | 3 | 38 to 49 in. tall, head tilts and locks | |
| Floor fan | 12 in. | 3 | 50 watts, tilting head, handle |
The garage quartz heater
The 1500-watt garage quartz heater is the one for the workbench in January. It runs on a standard 120-volt circuit at 16 amps, is rated 5,120 BTU and 161 square feet, has two heat settings and overheat protection, tilts 90 degrees up or down, is wall mountable, and has a 6-foot cord. It measures 7.09 inches wide, 5.91 high and 26.57 deep, a long bar you hang over the bench.
Know what 161 square feet means in a Montana winter. A quartz heater warms what it shines on, the way the sun does, so a bar mounted on the wall over the bench keeps your hands and the work warm while the rest of a cold garage stays cold. It is not a furnace for a two-car garage in a Flathead inversion, when the valley floor sits under trapped cold from late October through February; it is the heater that makes the corner you work in livable. Mount it on the wall, tilt it down at the bench, and run it on its own circuit: at 16 amps it wants a 20-amp circuit to itself, not the one the shop lights and the battery charger share. The 20-inch high-velocity fan above, aimed at the ceiling on low, pushes whatever heat you have back down.
Why Best Comfort
Buy Best Comfort for fans and heaters that give you the real numbers, CFM, amps, BTU and square feet, so you can match the machine to the room and put a fan in every bedroom and one in the shop. It is the brand for a Montana house that cools itself with night air and a shop that needs one warm corner.
Frequently Asked Questions
Which Best Comfort fan is best for a garage or shop?
The 20-inch high-velocity fan: 5,600 CFM on high, all-metal with chrome guards, 360-degree tilt, OSHA compliant and UL listed, on a 1/5-horsepower motor that draws 145 watts. Aim it out the open door to move fumes and dust, or down at the floor to dry a hosed-out slab. The 18-inch, at 4,550 CFM on high, is the smaller-shop version.
Is the Best Comfort box fan good for a window?
Yes. The 20-inch box fan is 4 inches deep with a carry handle and no assembly, so it sits in a window opening facing out to pull warm air out of the house at night. Run it on low for a bedroom; the three speeds are the reason to buy it.
How big a space will the Best Comfort garage heater heat?
It is rated for 161 square feet at 1500 watts and 5,120 BTU, with two heat settings. Because it is a quartz heater, it warms the people and the surfaces in front of it rather than the air in the whole garage, so mount it on the wall over the bench and tilt it toward the work. Give it a 20-amp circuit of its own; it draws 16 amps.
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