Keeping your home warm / heating / energy crisis / insulation etc

just use it to target specific spikes in humidity

This is what we do, keep it in a small room for drying laundry.

we are having some installed tomorrow. Granada units installed by SE Glazing, they were the slimmest we could find and are not having the wooden subframes, powder coated RAL anthracite (matching our Crittall windows)and with Pilkington Low-E glass. 5 windows, one of which is 5 pane horizontal slider 4.9m wide another a corner lift out with opening sash, rest are 3 pane sliding horizontals to match existing mullions. think it was £7k all in.
you have to get googling for the glass spec as there are many options in coatings/stadep sound laminated and widths etc.
The factory in Sheffield were very helpful and sent me some extrusions of the frame so we could work out where to install them and allowing the centre tilt windows to fully rotate without hitting the frames.
I guess i’ll update tomorrow...

This is what we do, keep it in a small room for drying laundry.

Same. When we were in a pretty well insulated and non draughty flat you could control the humidity but our place is single skin walled and has enough draught to be uncontrollable.

Have you got a link to the dehumidifier you've got at the moment @Howard @umop3pisdn?

and would it be worth getting one that doubles as an air con unit for the summer, or is that trying to tick too many boxes

If you haven't got it already, the octoaid app gives you much more historic and current information in one place. Also the rates that it will be tomorrow as well.

Maeco ones seem to be generally well thought of on here, we have this one which is reasonably good

https://www.meaco.com/products/meacodryarete1-12l

IIRC room sized air con doesn't really make sense, you need a heat-pump sized unit for it be worthwhile

I've got a Meaco ABC one, 12L or so I think. Seems to be cheaper to run than a lot of the others and quite a bit quieter than the previous one I had.

Portable air-con units are still big and heavy (the one I have that works for a room weighs about 30kg). I'd just get a dehumidifier.

https://twitter.com/Chris_Carus/status/1689756927461355520

MeacoDry ABC 10L here

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Given the dehumidifier chat I wanted to add that my downstairs neighbour has been running one constantly in the room directly below my bedroom for the past few weeks.

The noise and vibration from the dehumidifier is audible and stops me and my partner from sleeping.

Neighbour is trying to dry out walls before tiling them (previously been damp, assumed to be caused by water coming in from outside - damaged drain).

Drain has been fixed (allegedly). Dehumidifier remains... my guess is that neighbour should be (but isn't) heating the room to speed up the drying. Or perhaps that they're leaving the dehumidifier running trying to chase an unfeasible low % target and pulling outside air through the draughty windows/floor.

Any suggestions on how to speed up the resolution? Dehumidifier on rubber mat, heat room, be reasonable and stop trying to dehumid the whole planet via your flat... what have I missed?

(I have of course tried asking "please turn it off 11pm-7am as it's disturbing my sleep) but no joy).

Building is late 1800s solid stone walls and timber floors. Noise and vibration transmission is absolutely chronic.

Oh good luck with the install! I like the sound of no subframes mind.

@TTM happy to share what I find, should be getting quotes for a couple of options back from Storm this week.

The Clearview site has an impressive quote builder I'd recommend having a play with. https://clearviewsg.co.uk/

Yep, we’re going to measure up and have a play with that Clearview quote thing over the next few days.

I'd invite them round and ask them to experience the issue they are causing you.

Suggest they put the blasted thing on a timer if they do want to continue running it.

experience the issue they are causing you

Bit cosy to lie in a silent bedroom with your neighbour though

You could try your suggestions, but as they're not willing to stop it over night I don't know how far you'll get. They will have to bite the bullet and tile at some point, at least you know it won't go on forever. Unfortunately the path of least resistance may just be earplugs.

Tip speakers face down above their bedroom and just play a humming noise 24/7 until they get it

You can make a noise complaint to the council. They will send someone over, listen and then have a quiet word with your neighbour. We had to do it in Islington and their 24hr noise control team were remarkably responsive and helpful (YMMV depending on your chosen Local Authority).

Seems entirely reasonable to me to ask that its turned off at least whilst you're trying to sleep.

Noise and vibration transmission is absolutely chronic.

Above 70% RH is bad for mould. I think it's best to try to keep it to 65% if possible

This is probably too late to be useful (sorry), but I just received a quote for £8k (supply only) to replace all our single glazing panes: 1 bay, 6 sashes and 2 casement loft windows with vacuum double-glazing.

I thought that represented good value? The panes are only 8mm thick but outperform triple glazing: U-Value below 0.5 and sound reduction of 40 dB.

Cheers all - it does appear to have stopped now, which is great and I enjoyed a good night of sleep. Perhaps neighbour is on here :)

It's worth restating that this sort of thing can be a real pain to neighbours so be kind when you feel the need to dehumidify! I am of the view that (in old buildings at least) it's easier to instead (1) deal with water ingress, (2) heat the room, (3) open the window.

Also, earplugs don't seem do anything substantial to block out low-frequency stuff which is a shame.

Would be really interested in seeing a pic of this and a writeup of your experience when done.

well that will happen when they turn up with the right windows, they looked great but they were all face fix not reveal fix!?? all this after i had an in depth conversation with the surveyor about how the sample of extrusion i sourced from the factory with no wooden mounting was going to work in each REVEAL to allow the windows to spin and measuring each noggin fixed in the insulation for them to mount to checking they were all level.
FFS...

Oh dear, a expensive mistake for someone I'm sure. Sounds frustrating.

@tyeness here are some pictures of one secondary glazing unit. They have wood surround as the glazing is in a bay of sorts to needed the angled edge.