I cannot live without my dehumidifier. We live in a small flat with a small child and there is nearly always laundry to dry. The windows are never covered in condensation and if you shut the kitchen door, everything dries overnight. I also think that the air quality is better - I notice a difference if the tank is full causing it to switch off until it’s emptied.
I promise I am much more interesting and fun than I sound.
I’m sorry you’re having a rubbish time at the moment. I’m sure things will all be fine in the end. If it cheers you up, I’ve been checking for a post every day for ages and am very pleased that you’re back. Jan x
So sorry to hear about what you’re going through Esther, it’s everywhere! Re the laundry, a question to all, is a dehumidifier the way to vs a heated airer? We got a v good hot airer last year but it sounds the d-hum treats the whole room whereas the heated airer just the clothes that are right on it… so maybe both is most efficient?!
We have both. The heated airer is good, and depending on the room can heat the room when you’re delaying turning the heating on. But in our poorly insulated, poorly ventilated Victorian London terrace, if we don’t have the dehumidifier we get mould on the inside when the condensation builds up in a couple of rooms. Which is why we also have a kind of condensation hoover for the windows, which I always recommend to similarly afflicted neighbour/school mums.
That is really helpful. We had new windows replaced during lockdown and now the mould has crept into the kitchen and up the walls. Waiting for furlough (I’m a contractor) over Xmas so I can paint the whole darn room. Ho ho ho! 🤦🏻♀️🎅🏼😤
People rave about those hot airers and I think they are very energy efficient, especially if you use the cover? I went for the dehumidifier as I need to treat the whole room, too
We are currently in the second week of a fairly non vintage half term. I feel your pain. My anxiety levels have crept up and feel like invisible hands round my neck and chest . I suspect that the huge amounts of alcohol really don’t help, but I’ve always been a quick fix it kind of girl. That 5pm gin and tonic really is medicinal.
This article was very timely though, as the usual rows have erupted with my husband insisting that 15 degrees is a perfectly acceptable temperature and me watching the mould creep up the windows not so quietly despairing. I will spend a small fortune and hope for great things!
I think I might have to lend my body to science as it's such a miracle I am not sick yet. I am usually such a canary for this stuff. 3 weeks ago I stood in the hallway and said to my husband that if he didn't put the heating on I was going to scream and scream and scream
What is it with men and heating?! Mine has a pathological hatred of paying gas bills and is annoyingly English about putting (another) jumper on. We ALL got pneumonia last year and I’m convinced it’s because of the bloody house!
I second the dehumidifier for drying washing. We have a DeLonghi one I bought a couple of years ago for under £200 and it has a laundry drying function. I have a small laundry room (Southfacing and has a window) but the dehumidifier definitely helps get things dry. I hate the way tumble dryers make things shrivelled and smell weird so I’m team pulleymaid/dehumidifier all the way.
Sorry to hear of the awful time of it you’ve all been having (except for Kitty 🙂)! The vomiting sounds nightmarish and awful, I have the utmost respect and awe for mum’s when they deal with that kind of thing AND manage to comfort the child without breaking down themselves!
We’re having our old family bathroom totally renovated and, being at home all day, I’m hating the entire process. Had a couple of panic attacks on the first few days but yeah, then feel even worse for my first world problems when watching the news and seeing the unbelievable terror going on 😔
Gawd, major league leaking roof here in Kent, kitchen lights just all filled with water 🤩 too much water, dehumidifier running full time in son’s swamp smelling bedroom, utterly miserable - dealing with insurance wonks and loss adjuster is just irritating. IT NEVER STOPS - there is no peaceful place where all the nonsense stops and one sails through life and where the rest of the planet gets a break either
So sorry you’ve have a terrible week, I hope you find some respite soon. During the same week I had had a lot of things spin off kilter, and I reached for your Wheel of Fate explanation and waited grimly for things to get better. I spoke to an online GP about the clinical condition of “I just don’t feel like me” who listened to me and then suggested I got a blood screen. Not the worst advice; naturally I’ve not followed it.
I feel you - on a similar tidal wave of kid illness , anxiety, and absent partner too in my case. And also the spectre of f’ing Christmas is beginning to hover. However, having invested in a ruinously expensive dehumidifier last year I am with you 100%. I also use the water it sucks out (my god - how can all of that be in the air???) for my houseplants - which makes me feel weirdly virtuous. If only there was a gadget that could suck all the general mid life shite out of the air!! I would pay. A large amount.
Sorry for the endless laundry at your place but thank you for the recommendation on the dehumidifier. Also been thinking of getting one. So sick of damp clothes hanging about the house.
I hope you swerve the norovirus. It’s the stuff of nightmares. Not even the weight loss is worth it.
I swear by ‘Airbourne’ tablets (dissolvable multivitamin). I think you can only get them in the US; or vastly overpriced on Amazon - but they are ever better than Berroca -and taste better.
I can’t stop thinking about how much I need a dehumidifier now
I cannot live without my dehumidifier. We live in a small flat with a small child and there is nearly always laundry to dry. The windows are never covered in condensation and if you shut the kitchen door, everything dries overnight. I also think that the air quality is better - I notice a difference if the tank is full causing it to switch off until it’s emptied.
I promise I am much more interesting and fun than I sound.
I’m sorry you’re having a rubbish time at the moment. I’m sure things will all be fine in the end. If it cheers you up, I’ve been checking for a post every day for ages and am very pleased that you’re back. Jan x
You’ve had a rotten few weeks....the body keeps the score you know, so stress will find its way out somehow 🥲
....wishing you all speedy recoveries ....and a very less stressful rest of 2023 🙏
How long do you put the dehumidifier on for?
You leave it on all of the time
Thanks so much, v useful intel!
Oh you poor darling! My kids have been vomiting but self induced. Teens are vile. Don’t have them... mirror, signal, manoeuvre. 🤦🏻♀️
When you make a sizeable domestic purchase that ends up being perfect and life changing, the sense of happiness and joy is hard to match.
I do in fact, stroke my ‘big fridge with mega drawer’ regularly and every Christmas I say an annual prayer of thanks to it 🙏
So sorry to hear about what you’re going through Esther, it’s everywhere! Re the laundry, a question to all, is a dehumidifier the way to vs a heated airer? We got a v good hot airer last year but it sounds the d-hum treats the whole room whereas the heated airer just the clothes that are right on it… so maybe both is most efficient?!
We have both. The heated airer is good, and depending on the room can heat the room when you’re delaying turning the heating on. But in our poorly insulated, poorly ventilated Victorian London terrace, if we don’t have the dehumidifier we get mould on the inside when the condensation builds up in a couple of rooms. Which is why we also have a kind of condensation hoover for the windows, which I always recommend to similarly afflicted neighbour/school mums.
I'm reading this a bit late, but I second the condensation hoover for the windows - we use ours (Karcher) daily from October to April.
That is really helpful. We had new windows replaced during lockdown and now the mould has crept into the kitchen and up the walls. Waiting for furlough (I’m a contractor) over Xmas so I can paint the whole darn room. Ho ho ho! 🤦🏻♀️🎅🏼😤
People rave about those hot airers and I think they are very energy efficient, especially if you use the cover? I went for the dehumidifier as I need to treat the whole room, too
We are currently in the second week of a fairly non vintage half term. I feel your pain. My anxiety levels have crept up and feel like invisible hands round my neck and chest . I suspect that the huge amounts of alcohol really don’t help, but I’ve always been a quick fix it kind of girl. That 5pm gin and tonic really is medicinal.
This article was very timely though, as the usual rows have erupted with my husband insisting that 15 degrees is a perfectly acceptable temperature and me watching the mould creep up the windows not so quietly despairing. I will spend a small fortune and hope for great things!
P.s really hope you don’t get the voms
I think I might have to lend my body to science as it's such a miracle I am not sick yet. I am usually such a canary for this stuff. 3 weeks ago I stood in the hallway and said to my husband that if he didn't put the heating on I was going to scream and scream and scream
What is it with men and heating?! Mine has a pathological hatred of paying gas bills and is annoyingly English about putting (another) jumper on. We ALL got pneumonia last year and I’m convinced it’s because of the bloody house!
Really, really hope you don’t get the bug!!
I second the dehumidifier for drying washing. We have a DeLonghi one I bought a couple of years ago for under £200 and it has a laundry drying function. I have a small laundry room (Southfacing and has a window) but the dehumidifier definitely helps get things dry. I hate the way tumble dryers make things shrivelled and smell weird so I’m team pulleymaid/dehumidifier all the way.
yes tumble driers are broadly evil. and also so often say "This item is dry" and you take it out and it's NOT DRY
Sorry to hear of the awful time of it you’ve all been having (except for Kitty 🙂)! The vomiting sounds nightmarish and awful, I have the utmost respect and awe for mum’s when they deal with that kind of thing AND manage to comfort the child without breaking down themselves!
We’re having our old family bathroom totally renovated and, being at home all day, I’m hating the entire process. Had a couple of panic attacks on the first few days but yeah, then feel even worse for my first world problems when watching the news and seeing the unbelievable terror going on 😔
Gawd, major league leaking roof here in Kent, kitchen lights just all filled with water 🤩 too much water, dehumidifier running full time in son’s swamp smelling bedroom, utterly miserable - dealing with insurance wonks and loss adjuster is just irritating. IT NEVER STOPS - there is no peaceful place where all the nonsense stops and one sails through life and where the rest of the planet gets a break either
this is so true
So sorry you’ve have a terrible week, I hope you find some respite soon. During the same week I had had a lot of things spin off kilter, and I reached for your Wheel of Fate explanation and waited grimly for things to get better. I spoke to an online GP about the clinical condition of “I just don’t feel like me” who listened to me and then suggested I got a blood screen. Not the worst advice; naturally I’ve not followed it.
sometimes you just want someone to fucking listen. TOTALLY forgot about the Wheel of Fortune! I'm going to think about that now. thanks
I feel you - on a similar tidal wave of kid illness , anxiety, and absent partner too in my case. And also the spectre of f’ing Christmas is beginning to hover. However, having invested in a ruinously expensive dehumidifier last year I am with you 100%. I also use the water it sucks out (my god - how can all of that be in the air???) for my houseplants - which makes me feel weirdly virtuous. If only there was a gadget that could suck all the general mid life shite out of the air!! I would pay. A large amount.
Sorry for the endless laundry at your place but thank you for the recommendation on the dehumidifier. Also been thinking of getting one. So sick of damp clothes hanging about the house.
I hope you swerve the norovirus. It’s the stuff of nightmares. Not even the weight loss is worth it.
I swear by ‘Airbourne’ tablets (dissolvable multivitamin). I think you can only get them in the US; or vastly overpriced on Amazon - but they are ever better than Berroca -and taste better.