Valiant

Valiant is a British maker of heat-powered stove fans and related heating accessories, with products designed and engineered in the UK¹. For a household preparing for emergencies, its most relevant products sit in one place: keeping warm when the mains goes off. Its heat-powered stove fans, such as the Premium 4 Stove Fan, move warm air around a room using only the heat of the stove itself, with no electricity, no batteries and nothing to charge, which is exactly what you want in a power cut¹.

There is one urgent piece of safety information on this page. The Valiant Radiator Fan, a white rechargeable radiator fan with a black settings control screen, sold via Amazon, eBay, Temu, B&Q, Debenhams, The Range and TikTok Shop, has been recalled. Batches 967, 968 and 970 do not meet the requirements of the General Product Safety Regulations 2005. The manufacturer advises owners to stop using the product immediately and move it to an outdoor location, then dispose of it safely and claim a full refund². If you own one, go straight to the safety notices section below.

What Valiant makes for UK households

Valiant's range for the home is built around moving heat from where it is made to where it is needed. Its flagship product, the Premium 4 Stove Fan, is described by the maker as a heat powered stove fan with a uniquely engineered design, and the maker states its blades generate up to 70% more airflow than competitor products¹. It has four blades and a durable, hard wearing black anodised finish, and the maker reports 142 reviews on its product page¹.

For a prepping household, the significance is not the airflow figure on its own but what the category does. A wood burning stove is one of the few heating sources that keeps working through a power cut, a gas network failure or a storm that brings down the lines, and a stove fan spreads that heat further into the room instead of letting it pool above the stove. That means more usable warmth from the same fuel, which matters when fuel is finite. Our guides on heating and cooking without mains power and on power cuts set out where a stove and its fan fit a household plan.

The maker states its heat powered stove fans are ideal for use on wood burning stoves in homes, narrowboats or mobile homes, and on kitchen ranges and hobs¹. That range of settings matters to preparedness beyond the house: narrowboat and motorhome households live off-grid or semi-off-grid by default, and the same fan that improves a living room stove improves a boat's stove in a winter lock closure or a canal freeze.

Valiant also made a rechargeable radiator fan, a central heating accessory designed to blow warm air from a domestic radiator. That product is now subject to a full recall and is covered in detail in the safety notices section below. If you are researching Valiant because you own one, that section is the reason to read on.

Valiant kit for power cuts

Valiant does not make torches, power banks or battery candles, so it is not a one-stop shop for a power cut kit. What it makes is the piece that keeps a power-cut household warm, and warmth is the first thing most British homes lose in an outage, because central heating pumps, boilers and controls all need electricity even when the fuel is gas.

The essentials for coping with a power cut, as set out by the Met Office, are battery candles, torches and batteries, and a mobile phone power pack⁴. West Yorkshire Prepared adds a wind-up or battery-powered radio tuned into local news, warm clothes and blankets, and non-perishable food⁵, and Lancashire Prepared advises keeping a battery operated torch, power bank and spare batteries ready⁶. When Storm Goretti struck in January 2026, the Met Office again advised that people cope better with power cuts when they have prepared for them in advance, listing candles and matches or lighters, torches and batteries, and a mobile phone power pack as the essentials⁷. Build that kit from our emergency kit and backup power guides, and let a stove and a Valiant fan cover the heating side.

A heat-powered stove fan earns its place in that plan because it needs nothing from that list. It has no battery to keep charged, no cable, and no standby drain. When the power goes, a household with a stove and a fan simply lights the stove as normal and the fan starts turning as the stove's surface warms. There is nothing to forget, nothing to have let run flat, and nothing to add to the charging routine before a named storm.

If anyone in your household depends on power for medical or assistive equipment, such as ventilators, oxygen concentrators, electric wheelchairs, hoists, communication devices or feeding pumps, plan for those separately: the Scottish Government's Ready Scotland guidance notes that some of this equipment may stop working during a power cut⁸. Our extra help page covers the Priority Services Register and other support.

Valiant kit for heating, cooking and lighting

Within heating, Valiant's products divide by the heat source they work with.

The stove fan is the prepping-relevant product. In a winter storm, a gas network failure or a prolonged power cut, a stove is the household's heat, and often its cooking surface too: a fan that pushes more of that heat into the room reduces both the fuel burned and the time spent cold at the edge of the room. The maker states the Premium 4's blades generate up to 70% more airflow than competitor products¹, and its four-blade, black anodised design is built for continuous use through a heating season¹.

For cooking and lighting during an outage, Valiant makes nothing, and you should look elsewhere. Denbighshire's emergency supplies kit checklist recommends a torch plus extra batteries or a wind-up torch, a portable battery powered radio plus extra batteries or a wind-up radio, matches in a waterproof childproof container kept away from children, and, if food must be cooked, a small cooking stove and a can of cooking fuel⁹. Our heating and cooking, lighting and food guides cover these in full.

One caution applies to any heating plan built around a stove: anything that burns fuel indoors produces carbon monoxide unless it is designed and installed for it. Never bring camping stoves, heaters or barbecues indoors for heat. Our home emergencies page covers carbon monoxide and what to do about it.

Specifications to check before relying on Valiant kit

Before you count on any piece of kit in an emergency, check what it actually is. The Valiant recall is a worked example of why.

The recalled Valiant Radiator Fan is classified in the recall notice as an electrical appliance in the central heating replacement parts and accessories category². It is a white rechargeable radiator fan with a black settings control screen². The affected batches are 967, 968 and 970, and the batch number is located on the packaging next to the bar code and on the label on the base of the product². The part code is FIR046 and the barcode is 5061026620844². The notice states the product does not meet the requirements of the General Product Safety Regulations 2005².

For the products still on sale, the maker's own product page is the specification of record. For the Premium 4 Stove Fan, the maker states it is a heat powered stove fan with four blades, a durable, hard wearing black anodised finish, up to 70% more airflow than competitor products, and suitability for wood burning stoves in homes, narrowboats or mobile homes, and kitchen ranges and hobs¹. Treat any figure a retailer lists as secondary to the maker's own page, and where the two disagree, the maker's figure stands.

The wider lesson from the recall system is worth learning once. A product safety report on a YIYUANJI rechargeable torch found that the instructions supplied with the product were inadequate because they did not contain adequate safety information and details to ensure correct and safe use¹⁰. Inadequate instructions are themselves a safety fault that triggers official notices. When you buy any emergency kit, read the instructions fully while conditions are normal, not when the power is already off.

Using and storing Valiant kit safely

A stove fan is one of the simpler items in an emergency kit, but it lives on a hot surface, so place and use it as the maker's instructions describe, and check it is seated stably on the stove before each heating season. Keep the maker's instructions with the rest of your household paperwork so you can find them when you need them.

For the recalled radiator fan, the official instructions are specific and you should follow them exactly. The manufacturer advises owners to stop using the product immediately and move it to an outdoor location². Owners should then dispose of it safely via their local household waste disposal site, checking first with the local centre whether it accepts this type of battery². Once you have disposed of the product, email confirmation to Accessory Outlet Ltd at customerservice@accessoryoutlet.co.uk for a full refund².

The battery in that fan is the reason for the outdoor instruction. South Wales Fire and Rescue Service notes that rechargeable lithium-ion batteries are found in a wide range of household devices, from mobile phones and vaping devices to e-bikes, scooters, vacuum cleaners, tablets and ear pods¹¹. Scottish Fire and Rescue Service advises storing products and their batteries in a cool place, avoiding exposing them to extreme heat or cold¹². If you have any battery that is damaged, swollen or overheating, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets advises placing it in a non-flammable container, such as a metal box or bucket with dry sand, and storing it outside¹³.

For the rest of your emergency kit, the storage advice from local authorities is consistent: keep it in a safe place at home where you can reach it easily, in a waterproof bag¹⁴, and keep it in a designated place that all household members know, using plastic boxes or backpacks to keep the supplies together⁹. A stove fan does not need to go in the kit box: it lives on the stove, ready by default.

Safety notices and recalls

The Valiant Radiator Fan recall is the active safety notice affecting this maker. It was notified by Local Authority Trading Standards, carries the PSD notification number 2510-0238, and the product has been recalled from end users². It was sold via Amazon, eBay, Temu, B&Q, Debenhams, The Range and TikTok Shop², so a household could have bought one through almost any major channel and still have it in use.

This is not an unusual event, and it should not put you off preparing. The Office for Product Safety and Standards issues recalls and alert notices on its website as a routine function³, and recalls cover every kind of household product: Hunter Price licensed hot water bottles were recalled as a precautionary safety measure because certain batches may pose a burns risk due to a weak joint at the top seam¹⁵. The system exists precisely so that faulty products are found and removed.

To stay ahead of notices for everything you own, do two things. First, register electrical items with the manufacturer so you can be informed of any safety recalls, as Manchester Fire and Rescue Service's electrical fire safety advice puts it¹⁶. Scottish Fire and Rescue Service explains the mechanism: after buying the product, register it with the manufacturer, and if there is an issue, manufacturers use this information to contact you with relevant safety advice or for product recalls¹². Second, if you choose not to register, check recalls via Electrical Safety First or the UK government website¹². Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service adds that if an appliance is not listed as recalled it should be safe to use, and if you have concerns about its safety, contact the retailer or manufacturer¹⁷.

Support and warranty

For the recalled radiator fan, support runs through the refund route rather than a repair route. The official notice sets out the process in three steps: stop using the product and move it outdoors; dispose of it safely at a household waste disposal site, checking first that the site accepts the battery type; and email confirmation of disposal to Accessory Outlet Ltd at customerservice@accessoryoutlet.co.uk for a full refund². Accessory Outlet Ltd handles the refunds for this recall².

For Valiant's other products, the maker's own website, simplyvaliant.co.uk, is the starting point: it carries the product pages, including the Premium 4 Stove Fan page with its specifications and usage information¹. Keep a simple record of what you bought, when and from whom, for every piece of emergency kit: it costs minutes and saves a difficult search later.

Registration is the piece of support that matters most in an emergency context. Scottish Fire and Rescue Service explains that once you have bought a product and registered it with the manufacturer, the manufacturer can use that information to contact you with relevant safety advice or for product recalls¹². Our getting started page suggests building this into the same session as buying the kit, while the receipt and packaging are still to hand.

Where Valiant fits a household plan

A brand is not a plan. Valiant's contribution to a prepared household is narrow but genuinely useful: it makes the heat you already generate go further, at the moment when generated heat is all you have. Everything else in a power cut, from lighting to information to food, comes from other kit.

A reasonable division of labour for a UK household looks like this:

• Heat: warm clothes and blankets, with a wood burning stove and a Valiant stove fan to circulate its output⁵
• Light: battery candles, torches and spare batteries, or wind-up versions⁴
• Information: a wind-up or battery-powered radio, tuned to local news⁵
• Phone power: a power bank, kept ready alongside spare batteries⁶
• Food and water: non-perishable food and bottled water, with a safe cooking method¹⁸

Each of those has a full guide on this site: heating and cooking, lighting, staying informed, backup power, food and water. If you own the recalled radiator fan, deal with that first, then come back to the rest.