Drying Laundry with a Dehumidifier - How much?

steven_innit

I know im two years late but this is for anyone who still stubles accross this.

I live in a masionette and so the bedroom is a loft conversion. I have no outside space to dry my clothes. In the winter i use my tumble dryer to dry clothes. In sumer i have found that using my de-humid in the bedroom drys my clothes very quickly. I have a machine that is an air-con or a dehumid. If i have the aircon on i put the pipe out the window. When im drying clothes with the dehumid i point the out hose at the wet washing. This blasts them with warm air thats already in the room and the dehumid sucks up all the water. I tried it out because of how much i was using the tumble tryer for convinience even in summer.

Was about £99 on offer last summer.

Great for drying clothes and to not sleep in a sticky hot bedroom.

richardc1983

WestonDave wrote: »

Given the craze for marketing highly green appliances if dehumidifier technology was so great, someone would have stuck a turning drum on a dehumidifier and called it dryer - they haven't and you have to assume its for a reason!

Of course this is all based on logic rather than statistics so I guess someone will now prove me spectacularly wrong!

Well this is an old post but there are heat pump dryers which basically have a dehumidifier setup inside them to remove the water from the clothes and provide the heat!

Very expensive still

Google, heat pump dryer!

macman

Gas tumble driers are becoming available for domestic use and are much more economic to run. Might make sense if you were needing to replace an electric one, but they're not cheap to buy.

irisandalex

Here's a link that I found, suggests large energy savings from using a dehumidfier instead of a tumble dryer:

http://wiki.diyfaq.org.uk/index.php?title=Clothes_Dryer