Need a dehumidifier - Preferable From Amazon
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I bought this a few weeks ago and can highly recommend it, bought it to dry washing indoors and to generally dehumidify house it also filters the air too.
It sucked 2 liters of moisture out of the air in 2 hours the other night.
I had a desiccant and now a refrigerant based models over the last 5 years.
Desiccant appears to use more power, using the "turbo" feature that's designed (supposedly) for drying clothes causes the element to burn out quickly - in the end when I opened up the device the desiccant disk had burn marks all over it - obviously a fire hazard.
The do suck moisture out.
The refrigerant is noisier but given the lower power it's on for longer and seems to happily dry a full room of clothes (several washing loads) in one go. It helps if you set the humidity sensor to drag down the moisture but not attempt to be on all the time.
Added advantage is that unlike a tumble dryer, it doesn't destroy clothes by heat or over creasing them.
Typically several buckets of water are pulled in a drying session - but that session is the entire week's worth of cloths (including towels and often bed linen). The air then also dries out the rest of the house a bit too.. so we don't have moisture issues since using it. I point the air out at the thickest clothes and rotate them over the time. We have a hydrometer too in the room that shows the drop in humidity.
At some point we'll get the money together to sort out the kitchen and put in an extractor - I've offered to put one in but she-who-must-be-obeyed wants the kitchen first so no filling of gaps etc.. this all adds to the humidity.. and the extractor also helps control (indirectly) that humidity.
Desiccant appears to use more power, using the "turbo" feature that's designed (supposedly) for drying clothes causes the element to burn out quickly - in the end when I opened up the device the desiccant disk had burn marks all over it - obviously a fire hazard.
The do suck moisture out.
The refrigerant is noisier but given the lower power it's on for longer and seems to happily dry a full room of clothes (several washing loads) in one go. It helps if you set the humidity sensor to drag down the moisture but not attempt to be on all the time.
Added advantage is that unlike a tumble dryer, it doesn't destroy clothes by heat or over creasing them.
Typically several buckets of water are pulled in a drying session - but that session is the entire week's worth of cloths (including towels and often bed linen). The air then also dries out the rest of the house a bit too.. so we don't have moisture issues since using it. I point the air out at the thickest clothes and rotate them over the time. We have a hydrometer too in the room that shows the drop in humidity.
At some point we'll get the money together to sort out the kitchen and put in an extractor - I've offered to put one in but she-who-must-be-obeyed wants the kitchen first so no filling of gaps etc.. this all adds to the humidity.. and the extractor also helps control (indirectly) that humidity.