i recently discovered a long term leak under my bath and found the floor and wall to be soaked. It has been like it for months and became apparent because of a damp smell in the house on the ground floor. I have fixed the leak and have a domestic dehumidifier as bought from B&Q for @£70 running. It has been going for about four days and is pulling about 6 litres a day out of the building. How much would it be pulling out if the house were dry, surely not this much? But is there that much water still in the wall and the concrete floor after four days of 24 hour use?
2007-09-06 10:36:30 · 8 answers · asked by danchip 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
Have you had the dehumidifier enclosed in the bathroom with the windows and door shut. A dehumidifier will extract moister from everywhere so it's hard to answer your question. I'm in the hire industry and rent these machines out all the time to plasterer's to dry out rooms but you have to make sure to keep it enclosed and also to only use electric fires to help dry out because a gas fire puts 70% moister back into the room.
2007-09-06 10:47:24 · answer #1 · answered by Ste G 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dehumidifiers have an extraction rating, listed, usually in the instruction manual that comes with the unit. You can purchase larger or smaller units, depending on your needs. If yours is extracting six liters/day I'd say it's probably working to capacity. As one of the other fellows mentioned, some of the moisture will surely be coming from the atmosphere, depending on how humid it is outside and in. If you have an A/C running in the home then that will also help to dry things out. All you can do is keep checking the floors and walls for relative drying.
2007-09-06 10:49:58 · answer #2 · answered by Corky R 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You would be amazed how much water a dehumidifier can just pull out of the air in such a humid place as the UK!
Just keep it going - it will be helping but the water needs to be being heated by the warm weather before it becomes available for a dehumidifier!
2007-09-06 10:47:35 · answer #3 · answered by Hedge Witch 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
B&q Dehumidifier
2016-10-06 07:31:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have a chum or a kin member deliver considered one of those Brita pitchers to you so which you would be able to filter out the water and drink organic as a substitute of crap. there is not any way i could drink from a dehumidifier.
2016-10-18 04:07:26 · answer #5 · answered by furne 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It could forever be that much water. Depends on the humidity in the air. I'm not sure where your geographically located but I can get one to two gallons a day where I live just because of the humidity.
2007-09-06 10:49:55 · answer #6 · answered by Allan C 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A lot of the moisture is coming out of the atmosphere, it wont all be coming from the wet area.
2007-09-06 10:44:06 · answer #7 · answered by the f 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it depends how damp the house is , it could go on for a month and then ease of
2007-09-06 10:42:46 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋