Home Appliances

Every winter, Indian homes lose lives to gas geysers, coal angithis and overloaded sockets. A one-page checklist to keep your family safe.

Free calculator: what a room heater or geyser adds to your monthly electricity bill in India, based on wattage, hours, water temperature and your rate per unit.

What ₹5,000 really buys in a water purifier: a strong gravity unit, or an RO from a small brand with thinner service. The honest picks.

Which heater is safe in a newborn’s room, what temperature to aim for, where to place it, and the 5 oil-filled radiators we’d trust.

Fan, oil-filled, quartz or PTC: which heater suits a small bedroom, a big living room, an elderly parent or a study desk, and what each costs to run.

15 litres or 25 for a family of four? The bucket maths that settles it, and the 5 storage geysers worth buying this winter.

Washing greasy utensils in January is miserable. The 6 compact 3-litre instant geysers that fit under or above a kitchen sink.

High-rise flats and pressure pumps push geysers past 6 bar. Why an 8-bar rating matters, and the 5 storage geysers built for it.

Hard water shortens a geyser’s life more than anything else. The tank coatings, heating elements and anode rods that resist it, and 5 picks.

Gravity purifiers need no power or plumbing, but they don’t remove salts. Who they suit, and the 6 worth buying, from ₹1,899.