dehumidifiers help

Legacy_user

Hi can i ask if anyone uses these, i am on e7 and i dont have a storage heater in my kitchen just a blow heater what i use when im in there.

I was thinking about getting a dehumidifier to keep the kitchen dry and take the chill off it a little, the reason i want to take the chill off the kitchen is the door is in my sitting room and you can feel the cold from the kitchen.

Would it be any good for that purpose , my kitchen is not huge i live in multi story so you can imagine the size.

Thanks all in advance

TeamPlum

I might be mistaken, but a dehumidifier won't really take the chill off a room, that's not it's purpose.

Wouldn't it be better to do a thorough job in draught excluding the kitchen?

lstar337

A desiccant dehumidifier would expel heat as a byproduct of its operation, but I'm not sure it would be a good idea in a kitchen. I imagine the filters would quickly become saturated with grease and I'm not sure how well it would cope with that.

I think you are looking at the wrong kind of device for your purpose.

matelodave

As said above a dehumidifier is desigend to reduce the humidity, not to produce heat.

Desiccant types do warm the air slightly but not enough to make an appreciable difference except perhaps in an airing cupboard.

Compressor units (which what the majority are) actually refrigerate the air so the moisture condenses out. That's why they are useless in cold unheated areas like garages and sheds as they do actually freeze up.


I've had both sorts and presently use a desiccant type in my shed

pinkladyvenus

We use a dehumidifier in the bathroom as it has no window to open, it does seem to warm the room slightly. But would not consider it as a main source of heating.

jrtfan

We've been using Ebacs for almost 20 years now and although they do a fantastic job with keeping the moisture out of the air and preventing condensation, I would not recommend them as a source of some heat.

If you just want something to take the chill out of the air in the kitchen, have you considered getting one of those cylindrical wall-mounted space heaters? They're not very expensive to run and they take up very little room.
My mum had one on the wall in her downstairs loo which was still the 'outside' type tacked on to the back of the house. It was not somewhere you'd want to go during the winter, I can tell you! But when she had the space heater going in there and kept the toilet door shut it made the place surprisingly warm.

System

thanks all, i wont bother getting a 1 then