Talk:Clothes dryer

"(Remove references to wardrobes, which are not a safe environment to leave a dehumidifier permanently switched on)" Would you like to tell us the basis for this? Surely a built in wardrobe and cupboard are the same thing? NT 14:07, 26 January 2007 (GMT)

A bunch of questions I'd be interested to see addressed in the article:

Advantages compared to tumble dryer ... Much less energy consumption than a tumble dryer

is this comparison to a condensing or non-condensing tumble drier?

Much lower run cost

(running cost surely?)

again is this compared to a condensing or non-condensing tumble drier?

Sources and prices of dehumidifiers

can you give some ideas? and maybe also how prices compare with tumble driers?

Noise

are dehumidifiers really quiet enough to have running in a bedroom (which is where one tends to have wardrobes (other than those leading to enchanted worlds :-)).

In general it sounds like a good idea but I wonder about the straight-to-wardrobe idea. In our house not everything goes into a wardrobe anyway: some stuff goes into chests-of-drawers, some into the airing cupboard; and that's without factoring in his & hers wardrobes! Also if you put a load of damp stuff into the wardrobe sod's law you'll want something else out of there half-an-hour later and it'll have been sitting next to something damp and be damp itself. Plus whether a mains supply and condensate waste are available in a bedroom wardrobe.... I could see it being better to have a purpose drying cabinet, in which case it would seem to come down to being a sort of DIY condensing (non-)tumble drier. And none the worse for that: it could easily be vastly larger than a t-d and most of it could be made of renewable materials.

--John Stumbles 19:49, 6 February 2007 (GMT)

Just noticed John's comments - and would concur - a wardrobe (unless specifically dedicated to the task) does not seem like an ideal place.

However, the point of the post; why has the safety related info regrading making sure the machines max temperature is not exceeded, and the use of one shot timer been excluded? This seemed like a sensible set of precautions. --John Rumm 04:00, 14 April 2009 (BST)