Dehumidifiers - what is "warm"?

B0bbyEwing

I was looking at getting a dehumidifier at the start of the year after our last one died but it seems every man & his dog was also getting them as everything was out of stock so I thought I'd have another look in summer.

Finally remembered about it (truth being wife said have you sorted that dehumidifier yet) but in the time that's passed I forgot everything I'd read about them so had to have a read up once again as I wasn't sure which type to buy.

So when reading the types, it says one of them is for warmer rooms only & I read about frost forming on them at about 15c-ish but then other articles saying they should be ok around this temp.

So my question really is - what is "warm"? Warm the word is pointless, why not stick a degrees on it? 

It's like I read an article on sleeping recently & bedroom temperature - how you want to have a "cool" room ........ about 18c. 
18c cool????? Madness!! 18c in a bedroom is not cool at all. It's flipping warm. 

And there is our problem!

Back on to the topic of dehumidifiers - ours will pretty much ONLY be used for drying clothes. Ones that go in the tumble drier will go there & ones that can't get put in the spare room. 

Just having a look at the temp in the room now: 20c. 
I'm sure in winter time it was somewhere around the 16c marker, or at least in the 15c-18c range.

Once I know what type of dehumidifier I need to be buying it's just a case of picking one. If I can't get to the bottom of the type then it'll just be like what I did last time before I knew there were different types - pick one and it'll have to do.

markin

Any with a compressor should work fine, but if you look up the manual it should say the minimum temp.

BUFF

At 16C I suspect that desiccant will give better results for you than compressor but will also cost more to run.

shiraz99

Anything lower than 12⁰ and I'd go for a dessicant type.