humidifier not tumbler dryer

[Jayne198]

Article in DMail site says people are now getting humidifiers from Lakeland to dry washing with, since they cost 5p/hour to run compared with 95p/hour compared to a tumbler dryer.
Does this concord with others experience here ?

We’ve had our dehumidifier years and I have had it on the last couple of days, just for a couple of hours, whilst I have wet washing on the rack.
Our TD has, iirc, cushions stored in it. I’ve probably only turned it on a handful of times over the last few years, initially because I don’t like the way it shrinks everything and leaves clothes smelling & feeling, rather than the cost, but the TD does make the smart meter glow red, the dehumidifier leaves it green.

Thanks. I suppose it might be cheaper to run per hour, but i'm wondering if you have to leave it on for so much longer, so then the cost evens out ?
Could the smell be coming from the cushions or something other than the washing ?

The downside of drying clothes inside and using a dehumidifier is potential to raise the humidity in the whole house, making you feel colder, and use more heating.

Having a few humidity meters around the house can be very revealing.

Why would it raise humidity in the rest of the house?

You're meant to keep the washing and dehumidifier in a shut room, ours is on now in the utility room with the doors to the house shut

I used to dry my clothes on a clothes horse with a dehumidifier. Took ages to dry and got so sick of having drying washing in the kitchen, especially as our family expanded from 2 to 4. Two years ago we got a heat pump dryer. Absolutely the best thing we have ever bought! Doesn't cost much to run, dries clothes really well in no time and no more space taken up by drying clothes!

I wouldn't go back to a tumble dryer now. We have 5 of us living here and I use the dehumidifier for all our laundry. Set up the racks and leave it in a room with a closed door.

Significant savings on electricity and clothes seem to keep their shape better for longer.

We shut the washing in a room with a dehumidifier and it is warmer in that room. I thought it was because there is less moisture in the room.

Yep we’ve got one, it’s excellent. Doesn’t damage the clothes like a dryer does, also isn’t as bad for the environment and it’s cheaper.

Yes I've just googled it. Dehumidifier make the room warmer as not damp

Which one do you all recommend, I bought one but it doesn't seem great

Yes when you take moisture out of the air it becomes warmer. Our utility room is very warm at the moment because its been on for hours

I think a lot depends on how much space you have. We simply don't have the space to dry clothes with a dehumidifier, shut the door and just leave it. We also invested in a very good dryer and have not known it to shrink our clothes at all. So I guess really it depends a lot on personal circumstances.

I highly recommended the meaco one in this link, we got one last black friday and it's been amazing, especially with such a wet summer, it's been used far more than I ever imagined it would. It dries 3 airers of clothes in a day, just 1 airer will dry within 4 hours.

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I have this one and I’m happy with it: https://amzn.eu/d/ammp5bb

I use the tumble just for sheets and towels.
Dehumidifier for everything else hung up. Small room with door closed. Can dry 9kg load in a few hours easily. I have a big dehumidifier with a moving flap thing and laundry setting.

We have hygrometers around the house and as expected the dehumidifier lowers the humidity in the house. I do sometimes run it upstairs for a few hours when the humidity is a bit high if it's been raining for a week or something as its an old draughty house. So it's useful for that too.

I second the heat pump tumble dryer. Mine costs only 65p to dry 9kg in one hour. I also have solar panels, so on a sunny day, it’s free.

I don’t have an extra room to put racks of wet clothes and a dehumidifier in.

Use a tumble dryer. We have a good one, which is economical and has various programmes. Stuff never shrinks, comes out soft and lovely. I can't abide having wet laundry about the place and cannot devote a room to it.

My thoughts exactly. Plus - it's a real time saver. You don't have to keep checking it, or turning clothes over etc. bung in, dry, take out.

Mine must be like yours it has moisture sensors, delicate cycles, nothing has ever been shrunk or damaged.

Dryers don't damage the clothes, they have moisture sensors and various programmes. You can put anything in them.

Dehumidifiers don't soften towels like a tumble dryer does unfortunately, so I still start off towels and bedding in dryer. Finish with dehumidifier though, and clothes all dehumidifier unless I need something in a real hurry.

Yes of course if you're able to use one room it won't affect the rest of the house, many people can't.

But even then it should be lowering the humidity so warming the place up.

But if you had the doors open to the rest of the house, you then dehumidify the rest of the house, it doesnt put more humidity into it at all, the reason we shut the doors is not to waste energy on dehumifying the rest of the house and focus on the washing, otherwise it would take longer for the washing to dry

I use my heat pump tumble dryer every day! No spare room for a dehumidifier and the amount of washing I have it’d be all over my house if I didn’t have the tumble dryer