Difference between revisions of "Talk:Clothes dryer"
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Would you like to tell us the basis for this? Surely a built in wardrobe and cupboard are the same thing? | Would you like to tell us the basis for this? Surely a built in wardrobe and cupboard are the same thing? | ||
[[User:NT|NT]] 14:07, 26 January 2007 (GMT) | [[User:NT|NT]] 14:07, 26 January 2007 (GMT) | ||
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| + | A bunch of questions I'd be interested to see addressed in the article: | ||
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| + | ; Advantages compared to tumble dryer ... Much less energy consumption than a tumble dryer | ||
| + | : is this comparison to a condensing or non-condensing tumble drier? | ||
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| + | ; Much lower run cost | ||
| + | : ''(run'''ning''' cost surely?)'' | ||
| + | : again is this compared to a condensing or non-condensing tumble drier? | ||
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| + | ; Sources and prices of dehumidifiers | ||
| + | : can you give some ideas? and maybe also how prices compare with tumble driers? | ||
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| + | ; 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 :-)). | ||
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| + | 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. | ||
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| + | --[[User:John Stumbles|John Stumbles]] 19:49, 6 February 2007 (GMT) | ||
Revision as of 19:49, 6 February 2007
"(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)