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We currently dry our clothes in our 'kit' room* and the ceiling has been getting a bit mouldy in there. Last year we bought a wee dehumidifier to combat this (it's a 500ml/day one). We're still getting mould in there and I'm wondering if getting a bigger dehumidifier will help. We do have a washer/dryer but for a few reasons the tumble dryer is a bit more labour intensive (and increases wear on clothes). I *think* the TD might be a less efficient use of electricity as well.
Has anyone gone from a wee dehumidifier to a bigger one (>10l/day) and if so how did it pan out?
*soon to be baby room so we'll be moving laundry to our spare bedroom
We’ve got 2 small kids, a Meaco 20L Dehumidifier, no tumble drier and dry our laundry on 2 Lakeland heated racks in our spare bedroom. Likewise opt not to tumble dry as loads of things can’t (or it buggers prints etc...). Can’t comment on costs, would love to know price wise if it’s better. Think it depends on how long you leave them running for. I think if we left the racks and dehumidifier on for 6+ hrs it’d probably be worse, I should try and measure one day
Highly recommended: https://www.appliancesdirect.co.uk/p/dd128/ecoair-dd128-dehumidifier
Can't answer you question, but I've had ebac 2650e going for years in a old coal room (it's just packed up) and more recently meaco 20l platinum low energy. Both good but the ebac filled the tank very quickly but more expensive to run, the meaco isn't as fast at filling the tank but more economical to run. The meaco is a bit quieter. I suppose I'd recommend both.
Similar to above, got a couple of ebacs (2650e 18L & 3850e 21L) that I've had for years.
Fills up surprisingly quickly sometimes, if I'm drying laundry then it'll be full in a day or so!
The 2650e has been absolutely faultless for about 8 yrs, the 3850e has always had some weird issue where occasionally it stops until I turn it off & on again (although never bothered me enough to send it back or try to get it fixed!)
Ours is a 12l one from Screwfix, 7 years old now and still going strong. No mould in our drying room / spare bedroom.....
https://www.screwfix.com/p/blyss-wdh-122e-12ltr-dehumidifier/494gy#_=p
Ok, thanks for the recommendations.
Still a bit of spreadsheeting to do to convince the good lady, but I think I have a plan now...
Ventilation, ventilation, ventilation.
We've got an ebac and it's great. There's a boost or drying mode that goes in to hyperdrive for 8 hours then returns to the previous setting after that. It'll do a moderate load overnight, heavier stuff 24 hours and about 5-10 litres in that time? It has a decent fan, can be plumbed in, what's not to like. Also I believe they're British made, if that matters.
Ventilation? Well maybe. Either you need to get the moisture form clothes in to the air, requiring heat. You then need to remove humid air from your house and replace it, with cold air. Which then needs heating and so on and on and on. I've assumed it's more efficient to have a little refrigeration cycle going to to remove the moisture from the air. I mean, the heat spent is just going to warm the air, which makes your drying quicker. Win-win. Got to be more efficient than throwing warm and slightly damp air outside and drawing cold air in.
We've an older version of https://www.ebac.com/dehumidifiers/powerdri-18-litre-yellow-dehumidifier-de84ye-gb/ works a treat in our drying room, can dry a couple of wash loads overnight.
Highly recommended: https://www.appliancesdirect.co.uk/p/dd128/ecoair-dd128-dehumidifier/blockquote >
Can't comment on the dehumidifier, but I'm never using appliancesdirect again. New Ebac smoked and died when first plugged in. Asked for my money back but I've had to open a Paypal dispute to get them to respond.
I've covered over the air brick in our drying room that has the dehumidifier, we add the heat via a radiator and extract the moisture with a dehumidifier. If I hadn't blocked the air brick the world would be a dry desert.
Ventilation, ventilation, ventilation.
lol
Our dehumidifier works much better if we shut the door of the room. You only need to ventilate if you don't have a dehumidifier.
I don't like using the heating to dry the clothes as unless you open the window and waste all the heat, the moisture will just condense back onto the windows and make the walls mouldy when your heating turns off.
We’ve had a few over the years. The current ebac one if by far the best yet.
but I’m never using appliancesdirect again. New Ebac smoked and died when first plugged in. Asked for my money back but I’ve had to open a Paypal dispute to get them to respond.
I won't be using them again either.
We bought a fridge/freezer from them which was delivered with a crack in the handle. They said they'd send another out. 6mths and no handle later and they were trying to pass the buck to the manufacturer. I eventually managed to get a full refund but only as we hadn't used it and still had all the original packaging. The amount of time wasted on phone calls and I have to get pretty arsey with the manager to eventually get a refund. Complete joke.
I've got a 25/L a day one made by Inventor. I've got one of those smaller ones as well, but the bigger units really are a world away from those. It will do two airers full of wet washing to bone dry in a small room in about 2 hours.
It was only £150 from Amazon when I got it, but i see that they are currently £349. It's worth setting up a bunch of alerts for those and the other top selling ones on CamelCamelCamel because they do go on sale pretty often.
I thought it was pretty indulgent when I got it but if it broke now, i would buy another right away.
I've got one of these in our utility room. https://www.appliancesdirect.co.uk/p/cd20le/electriq-cd20le-dehumidifier
Clothes are dry in a couple of hours and it's definitely more efficient than our tumble drier. One drying cycle uses 5.6KWh where as I can leave the dehumidifier on for 24 hours to use that amount of leccy.
I'd recommend a double one of these racks on the wall as well as they're really handy. http://pulleymaid.com/beedboard_rack.htm