Tornado fans have been recommended to me by my electrician (sometimes called "Silent Tornado"). See https://www.extractorfanworld.co.uk...us-running-extractor-fan-6787-p.asp?_=&page=2 However it concerns me that I cannot find out who makes them. For rival fans like Kair, there's lots of information on the web, you can find their telephone number and call them, and the response is swift and agreeable. Same with Envirovent. But for Tornado there is nothing, and Amazon doesn't stock them, though lots of other suppliers do. Why are they being apparently deliberately mysterious?
Who makes Tornado fans?
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I am a fan of Tornado which was made by Darlington Works in the main.
OK a little joke, but the point is do we ever today know who builds anything, we get a household name item which we associate with British made, then look at fine print and see made in China.
I have looked at fans myself,
there are some very good ones on the market, but do I want to spend over £300 on a fan, or heat recovery unit?
For a unit turned on when cooking or showering I can see using a cheap fan, but one which is continuous we are moving into a completely different product
and for the all in one units to work, one is looking at how well sealed the room is, this type 
tends to force air in both directions so it does not really matter how well sealed the room is, but the type where the heat exchanger is built into the pipe through the wall tend to only force air in one direction, and rely on room being reasonably sealed to cause air to go in the other direction. They all seem to cost between £300 and £400 and to be frank I would not want to spend that sort of money.
However with heat pumps I suppose these will become more popular as we can't afford to throw heat away.
OK a little joke, but the point is do we ever today know who builds anything, we get a household name item which we associate with British made, then look at fine print and see made in China.
I have looked at fans myself,
there are some very good ones on the market, but do I want to spend over £300 on a fan, or heat recovery unit?For a unit turned on when cooking or showering I can see using a cheap fan, but one which is continuous we are moving into a completely different product
and for the all in one units to work, one is looking at how well sealed the room is, this type tends to force air in both directions so it does not really matter how well sealed the room is, but the type where the heat exchanger is built into the pipe through the wall tend to only force air in one direction, and rely on room being reasonably sealed to cause air to go in the other direction. They all seem to cost between £300 and £400 and to be frank I would not want to spend that sort of money.However with heat pumps I suppose these will become more popular as we can't afford to throw heat away.
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Same as this one?
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That's interesting, when I worked on the railways it was at Darlington.
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