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)