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Meaco Zambezi is good if you want to use it in colder temperatures. Meaco is a good brand, their compressor dehumidifier is great to.
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You shouldn't really rush that job if you can avoid it.
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Meaco is the one, also super useful for drying laundry
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Humidifier?
Yes, try not to use heat. A desiccant version will work well if the room is cold. Shut the doors to the room, put the DH on always-on, run a pipe from it to a drain if you can so you don't have to keep emptying the bloomin thing.
Don't count on it being done a few days though : /
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That's a compressor type, not very good at working in uk temps ime. Anything below 20c and they are pretty useless, keep icing up. I think they work best in 30 to 40c conditions.
Dessicant type is what you want, 600w will do a small to medium room. Bigger for bigger. They work most efficient at temps in the single digits I've found, they also heat your workspace.
I now use the things a lot on house fixing jobs when pointing, plaster, paint of glueing anything. Stuff dries in the times it says on the tin. £180-300. The number of lites it can hold doesn't natter, make sure it has a drain hose and you just put the drain hose on a bucket.
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My shitty kitchen wall is drying and I think the problem was likely a cap on a neighbours gutter which has now been sorted. But it's drying slowly and I want to get on and plaster it. Humidifier?
If so, I don't really like renting things if I'll get future use. We have some damp/mould in another room in the house so I can see spending 250-350 on one is probably not the worst thing in the world if a week renting will be 100+
Looking at:
https://www.appliancesdirect.co.uk/p/ecd30/electriq-ecd30-dehumidifier
https://www.screwfix.com/p/ebac-powerdri-21ltr-dehumidifier/8053r
https://www.screwfix.com/p/ebac-powerdri-18ltr-dehumidifier-unit/41553 (which is better reviewed than the 21ltr version?)
Would obvs prefer ebac for size/cost but equally is that not going to do a lot for me? Some reviews say they do really well for the money, but quite a few reviews saying they're broken on arrival/faulty/cracked etc.
Anything else out there? Can't really go to DriEaz money (1k plus) and probably not Sealey which seem to be around 500. Presuming that buying second hand is too big a risk. And realistically I want something tomorrow or Monday latest.