What's the most cost efficient: drying clothes in a tumble-dryer or in a warm room with a dehumidifier on?
Aug 16, 2006 by roegang1 | Posted in Alternative Fuel Vehicles
I am looking at efficient ways to dry clothes in winter; is it more cost operative to use the tumble dryer or run a dehumidifier in a (closed) room with clothes on an airer, when the room is already centrally heated?
beat yet hang em outside. Even in subzero weather, the air will still dry the clothes. Sublimation is the process of a frozen liquid (ice) turning as soon as into a gas. However, if you elect to dry them in the house, in winter you probably won't need
Inadept | Aug 16, 2006
If the chief heating is on, why not just open the window a tad?
silverbirch | Aug 16, 2006
I'd dry in the cell but couldn't you do that without the dehumidifier? Depends on where you live, I suppose. Where I live no dehumidifier is needed to dry clothes indoors in winter.
Imaka | Aug 16, 2006
Dryers don't sell for that much to run, its usually pennies. I don't think that you would recoup that much of a difference between a dyer and a dehumidifier. Do you really want to give up your living leeway, and have clothes hanging around the room?
mischa | Aug 16, 2006
more yet hang em outside. Even in subzero weather, the air will still dry the clothes. Sublimation is the process of a frozen liquid (ice) turning momentarily into a gas. However, if you elect to dry them in the house, in winter you probably won't need
Inadept | Aug 16, 2006
Use natures unrestrained gift........wind and sunshine.
lollipoppett2005 | Aug 16, 2006
It depends how many people you are drying for, if its yourself , then all things considered the airer might be the best bet. If its a family with children, a tumble dryer might make life easier in terms of the amount of washing it would exclude from lying around
michelle j | Aug 16, 2006
How about using a fall down drier and taking theclothes out as soon as it is finished drying so that the clothes do not crease, so require no ironing ( or a lot less).
EIRA H | Aug 17, 2006
Efficient ways to lower humidity in my house?
Jan 25, 2010 by Johnny Truant | Posted in Other - Home & Garden
I lease a house that is really old with cinderblock walls and hardwood floors. The windows and doors are all ridiculously drafty, a ungovernable which I wont pay to have fixed.
I know I can get a dehumidifier or run the air conditioning more,
Duct tape recording the windows to stop the drafts. It worked wonders on our house where the windows where loose in the tracks.
Steven J | Jan 25, 2010
Which dehumidifier is better -- the one Lowe's sells or the one at Home Depot?
Sep 05, 2010 by Jordan | Posted in Maintenance & Repairs
Both stores tattle on basement dehumidifiers, but different brands. Which one do you think is better? Also, would it be more efficient if I buy a bigger one than I need for my basement (greater pints-per-day rating)?
i employment at home depot and i know they carry LG which is a very good product and I know we sell a lot of them during the summer seasonable and their return policy is the best in the business.. hope this helps.
TimS | Sep 05, 2010
Danby Silhouette 58 Pint Dehumidifier | My Efficient Planet
by My Efficient Planet
Removes 58 pints of splash per day in a residential margin or basement up to 1200 sq. ft. Adaptable: Vitality diva rated, calm enough for a bedroom, and can direct down to 42.8°F Burdened with features: front-loading scuttle; control gutter recourse, auto-sensing humidity handle Auto-defrost turns off the dehumidifier and de-ices the internal coils when temp gets too low Uncommonly handy module has relaxing hold handles and comes accomplished with 4 casters
By-product History
We adulation, fondness, girlfriend this dehumidifier! Our 10-yr-old Kenmore died earlier this fountain-head, and we looked big and unvarnished at consequence reviews (and Spirit Matchless ratings) before we made the finding to buy the Danby DDR586. We couldn’t be happier. It is soundless, shiny, runs like a subdue, and doesn’t build compensate our basement hot like our old Kenmore did. The Danby 586 has several refined features I wasn’t in a family way, including a manage in the removable scuttle and a keek-a-boo window to basis its fullness, and, from the first, struck me as well designed and not cheaply built. The Danby 586 has done a fictional job for us in its first 6 weeks of work — and this has been a space of fanatical torridness (100+), humidity and rainfall– and hasn’t made a discernable dent in our ardour bill (uncharacteristic our old Kenmore).
On the pragmatical side, this humidifier is hush and did vocation for the 10 or so add up to times we ran it. On the dissenting side, when we took it out of winter storage this year (after the one year pledge was up, of ambit) it didn’t travail at all. Took it to the form workshop and were told it all things considered has a seep in the sealed system. Parts are covered by the surplus of the pledge, but we had to pay 2/3 the fee of a new one for labor to fix it.
Like: very noiselessness and does NOT warmness up the reside like my Maytag module
Be put: 1) pat was not nicely glued to the component – one of the handles came detached to the module 2) when tank is full, bedew dilute is filled to the brim making it a confrontation to not let the cat out of the bag some while charming it out to empty 3) the humidity meter seldom matches the humidity setting.
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