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I had this too. No idea what it was, ran the thing for literally months. I figure that I was just grabbing damp air from outside.
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Current plan is to try and isolate individual rooms, and assuming they get down to a good low level of humidity, to the see how they look in x (24? 48?) hours time to at least build up a picture of what the rooms are like, rather than just running it in a hallway and never making any appreciable progress
branwen
Dehumidifier question (which is v. much a "how long is a piece of string" one).
We have a Maeco 10l that we got a couple of months ago. Been using it on and off but even when we had it on for extended periods (36h +, and with three+ emptyings of the reservoir in that time) the humidity would never drop below ~58%, and quickly gets back to ~70%.
The house has always been a bit damp, but never had serious mould issues. Is it plausible that this is still all moisture coming from the building fabric itself? I'm worried that we're effectively just drawing damp air through a leak somewhere and effectively dehumidifying the outside and paying a decent amount in electricity bills for the privilege