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Customer Review
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 October 2024We have an old house with solid walls that gets very humid when it's raining, we also dry a lot of our clothing in our utility room on clothes maidens so it seemed like a double opportunity to use this;
Using it in the utlity room with wet washing helps the washing dry in hours instead of days (particularly if it's not warm and not cold enough for the heating to be on), it easily takes a tank full of water out of the air in a several hour run, I think the tank is around 9L, I use it to water the plants in the house, but have been looking for other uses to recycle the water as there is a fairly large amount.
My one major complaint is the water container/bucket; it has a cover over it, but the cover doesn't seal around the edges, so when it's really full and you try to pour it out, you're guaranteed to end up with water everywhere. The container isn't a regular shape, it's angled in various ways to fit the innards of the unit, so there's a few different angles on the corner where you're supposed to pour it out from, and 100% of the time I end up with water over the floor and myself when I try to pour it into plants or the sink etc.
I think you could probably fix it by taping with some waterproof tape around the edges of the lid where you don't want water to escape from, but that shouldn't be necessary, I'm docking a star for that one poor design choice.
Unfortunately I can't really comment on how loud it is, as I don't run it in a room I sit in, and I've only run it in bedrooms when we're not in there; On low I'd say it's relatively quiet, you could probably watch TV with it in the room, but you will hear it, on loud I don't think I'd want to be trying to watch TV or sleep with it in the room, but it is just a white noise so that might not bother some people.
In terms of functionality, it has low/high, there's a desired humidity setting which can be set in 5% increments to values as low as 45% (not sure why it won't go lower, probably not good to make the air too dry), there's a clothes drying mode which just whacks it on full and ignores the humidity setting until you turn it off, timer, child lock and "ioniser"; no idea what the last one does, but I just leave it on.
It's rated 300W, I think I measured it at a bit less, closer to 270W when running on high, so with current electricity prices, Oct 2024, it might cost around 6.5p an hour to run based on my unit price of 24p/kWh)
