How much does your dehumidifier collect?

[Handyweatherstation]

The house me and OH live in is rented and the building was previously a small stable block, so not built for humans. I think it was converted for human use during the 1950s, but am not sure. I love the house and where it is, but it gets damp in wet weather so I've got a dehumidifier and have started using it during the day in the room that gets the most damp.

I don't know how much these things usually collect but I'm shocked at how much water it takes in given that this room isn't big. Granted, this week has been wet, but these are the daily amounts after eight hours in use so far this week.

Sunday - 600ml
Monday - 800ml
Tuesday - 1L
Weds - 800ml
Thurs - 1.1L

Is this a lot of water?

N.B. The windows and door are closed and I take our bedside water glasses out of the room while the dehumidifier is running.

@GasPanic the outside walls aren't damp to the touch but during wet weather the room can smell musty. That has improved a lot during this last week of daily dehumidifier use.

We sleep with the window cracked open and, unless we have visitors, the bedroom door wide open so there's better airflow. The house is somewhat cave-like and this does help with ventilation.

I assume that what we spend on running the dehumidifier we more than save on heating.

Plus a nicer indoors environment.

I think so, I have found the house feels much better and I've not been needing to heat yet which is unusual.

That is the plan.

For me I can't stand the damp. Cold dry house is fine. I can run the house much lower in temperature if it is dry.

I have just emptied mine for the second time in 24 hours, it holds 2.6l. I did have a couple of days this week where it went for around 36 hours without needing emptying but that is unusual. I live in an old, 3 bedroomed semi detached, poorly insulated house with single glazing, I don't have too much of a problem with damp walls but did have condensation before the dehumidifier came. My neighbours have awful problems with damp but their windows are double glazed and they don't have a dehumidifier.

I ran mine this week as I noticed a bit of condensation on some of the windows in the 2 coldest rooms in the house. I didn't get much water collected at all. That was setting it to reach a humidity of 55% - which it didn't take long to reach.

My main one has a 2.5L tank and needs emptying twice a day. My smaller one has a 1 litre tank and needs emptying about every 3 days.

Small one bedroom flat.

I'm thinking mine is taking in a huge amount of water every day but last year we had mould in the bathroom and box room so maybe there is a lot of damp in the walls

On laundry day it collects roughly 15 litres in just a few hours but it does dry two full airers worth of laundry in about 2 hours so unsurprising really, only way we can dry laundry this time of year without using the tumble dryer which costs a fortune to run

When it's just on normally without drying any laundry it usually gets 1-3 litres a day depending on the weather and if we have the heating on or not

Running 9-5 in the bedroom today and collected 900ml. A slight improvement.

For my old house I would empty the container (that held a litre 2-3 times a day on wet/humid days and when drying laundry . Was a nightmare to heat the house too. Solid walls are to be avoided!!!

I have the Meaco ABC 12l,, too, but the tank, which needs emptying about 1x a day is only about 1 litre capacity.

We have an ebac, have had one for 14 years now I think? Best thing we ever bought for our old house (stone built, terraced, chimneys bricked up, double glazing, no extractor fans), as we were having horrendous condensation problems.

Even in our current house (60's, cavity walls with insulation, no bathroom extractor), it makes a huge difference to getting clothes dry, though unfortunately, the ancient aluminium framed double glazing is more efficient at sucking moisture (and heat) out of the air. I bought a window vac - which is also useful for the fully tiled bathroom after showers. We're still emptying the dehumidifier pretty much every day.