Spec me a dehumidifier please?

Whilst I was at work yesterday my wife did the clothes washing at 11:00 and put the Meaco ABC on. When I eventually got home at 5pm the humidity was at 62%. I checked my hydrometer history and it seems the humidity peaked at 63% but the machine was struggling getting things lower. I checked the tank and it was about 90% full!

I can only assume the clothes were wet af when she put them up. Eventually at around 6pm the humidity started dropping into the mid-low 50’s.

I decided to switch on and leave the machine running overnight from 10pm to 5am this Friday morning. When I woke up the tank was about 95% full.

Whilst I don’t know the science on how these things work atm I am hugely surprised at how much water it pulls from the air.

Edit: One thing I have noticed is the digits hygrometer on the machine is absolutely out of whack regarding accuracy. It is some +15% higher than even my RS Components calibrated meter from work. Other reviews on it say the same as it fluctuates heavily too.

Edit: I originally stated it was a 10L tank. 10L refers to how much the machine can draw in a single day. The tank capacity is 2.5L.
 
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I’ve got two of those @robj20 and the accuracy is pretty bang on. I have one in my cabin next to my thermopro temp/hygrometer and another in the lounge next to another thermopro (simply just to check over a long period how similar the readings are before I start relying). So far after a month or so the readings have been very very close so in my opinion accurate enough.
 
Kainz said:
Whilst I was at work yesterday my wife did the clothes washing at 11:00 and put the Meaco ABC on. When I eventually got home at 5pm the humidity was at 62%. I checked my hydrometer history and it seems the humidity peaked at 63% but the machine was struggling getting things lower. I checked the 10L tank and it was about 90% full!

I can only assume the clothes were wet af when she put them up. Eventually at around 6pm the humidity started dropping into the mid-low 50’s.
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Ask your wife what cycle she is using. Some cycles, such as quick washes or delicates, probably have short and/or slow spins. Longer cycles, such as cottons cycles, usually spin at the machine's maximum spin speed for at least few minutes to get as moisture out of the clothes as possible.

So simply changing which washing machine program she uses might help the moisture in your house.
 
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darael said:
Ask your wife what cycle she is using. Some cycles, such as quick washes or delicates, probably have short and/or slow spins. Longer cycles, such as cottons cycles, usually spin at the machine's maximum spin speed for at least few minutes to get as moisture out of the clothes as possible.

So simply changing which washing machine program she uses might help the moisture in your house.
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One of the main things I look for in a washer these days is at least a 1600rpm spin, amazing the power savings when then using the dryer after so much dryer straight from the washer.

Like you say the eco mode and 15min wash on ours defaults to 1200rpm.
 
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darael said:
Ask your wife what cycle she is using. Some cycles, such as quick washes or delicates, probably have short and/or slow spins. Longer cycles, such as cottons cycles, usually spin at the machine's maximum spin speed for at least few minutes to get as moisture out of the clothes as possible.

So simply changing which washing machine program she uses might help the moisture in your house.
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We also do an extra spin cycle if using the dehumidifier for drying. :)
 
darael said:
Ask your wife what cycle she is using. Some cycles, such as quick washes or delicates, probably have short and/or slow spins. Longer cycles, such as cottons cycles, usually spin at the machine's maximum spin speed for at least few minutes to get as moisture out of the clothes as possible.

So simply changing which washing machine program she uses might help the moisture in your house.
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Hmm quite correct, I'll have to check with her.

If I do the clothes washing when shes not around, I just do an extra spin cycle or two and the clothes are pretty much mildy damp when they come out.
 
Well my Meaco 20L finally arrived.

Just in time for there to be nothing to dehumidify. My house has been fine for the past month or so. Not sure why it was so bad in November, and now its fine with no intervention.

Its quite a chunky unit, bigger than I expected, quite a bit bigger than the 15L Ebac I had that had to be returned faulty. The good news is that whilst the fan noise is about the same, there is no high pitched compressor 'tinkling' type noise on this unit.
 
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I bought a MeacoDry ABC 10L back in November, it's been great. We use it mainly to dry washing but I leave it running all the time and it's kept our place the ideal humidity. Naturally now it's low 40s inside it's rarely coming on until we put the washing out.

Meaco sent notification that the DD8L Zambezi was in stock yesterday, so bought one of those my my cabin/office at the end of the garden. I appreciate it uses more energy, but I've usually got a heater on in there anyway so I'll save by not having to use that as much. Out for delivery so will be interesting to see how much it extracts over the next few days (currently reading high 60s in there right now which has been concerning me).
 
Totally forgot to get one end of last winter so thought I'd revisit.
I think from memory id narrowed it down to the Meaco Arete 20l or the Ebac 4850.
 
koolpc said:
How quick? Economically better too that TD?
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I don’t have a tumble dryer, nor do I have room for one - the kitchen is a bit of a weird layout and a fair bit of wasted space.


So I couldn’t tell you if it’s more efficient, but it is pretty quick. If I have the dehumidifier under the clothes airer they’ll dry as quick as an hour.
 
I have an electriq dehumidifier which vents the warm/dry air out of the top, it sits below the clothes which are on an old fashioned ceiling airer. Seems to do quite well at drying clothes overnight, heavier stuff like jeans can take a bit longer.
 
We recently bought the Meaco Arete 20l (actually ordered the 12l but got given the 20l by the lady at Argos and didn't realize until 2 days later!).

It's definitely great at dehumidifying and the amount of moisture it sucks out of the air is amazing. It makes me wonder where all of the moisture has been going all these years.

We keep it in the kitchen as it's open to the hallway and upstairs, and it has stopped the condensation on all of the bedroom windows, which is what we originally bought it for.

When we first turned it on, the humidity was around 77 in the kitchen. We set it to 55 and after a few days, it now hovers between 55-60.

One thing it doesn't seem to do is dry washing as fast as I'd hoped. I think it's because the kitchen where we dry clothes usually hovers between 16c - 18c, so there's not enough constant heat to help the moisture from the clothes evaporate. It's also a condenser dehumidifier, so doesn't kick out any real heat.

Overall I definitely think it's worth it. All that moisture sitting in the house can't have been doing any good for all these years. It also means I don't need to have the windows open in the colder months, which means much less wasted heat.
 
Decided to order the Meaco Arete 20l should be plenty big enough for our 3 bed house. Delivery this afternoon.

Didn't think the Ebac warranted the extra money.
 
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DanTheMan said:
One thing it doesn't seem to do is dry washing as fast as I'd hoped. I think it's because the kitchen where we dry clothes usually hovers between 16c - 18c, so there's not enough constant heat to help the moisture from the clothes evaporate. It's also a condenser dehumidifier, so doesn't kick out any real heat.
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For the laundry setting to work properly you really want to do it a small closed off room. The dehumidifier will try and pull the humidity levels down to 35% in laundry mode, which its never going to be able to do in a large open space.
 
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