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CommentAuthor crusoe CommentTime Sep 13th edited. Good idea! Still uses electricity though. A customer of mine wanted to use a ceiling-mounted drying rack for clothes - like the sort you use above an Aga - so we fitted a radiator in the shower room, which runs on a timer, independent of the other heating, using stored solar energy from the day before.
This is an older end-terrace property. Works like the proverbial. Many ways to skin this kind of cat methinks. JTG: Is this a tarpaulin like mine?
No, it's a clear corrugated polycarbonate roof that keeps a 4. The 'walls' of the lean-to are the garden fences: solid alongside the access passage to stop opportunistic covetousness of our bikes, and 'full height but picket style' i.
So, lots of air circulation, lots of solar gain roof is south-east facing and dry. It's where we store our bikes, bins, wood for the stove, gardening stuff, and have space for bike maintenance and where we have sited our wall mounted airer a 'wall fix' - like a rotary airer, but it doesn't rotate and can be easily put away when not in use.
That roof also supplies water to a second water butt and I'm hoping let a passion fruit passiflora edulis make it's way in there and see if the fruit will ripen. You could call it a holistic, eco-motivated design. Those drying cabinets that Mike mentions are very popular here in Sweden, great for drying stuff when you come in from the snow! I remember seeing them on ebay at the time much cheaper than they were selling on their online shop but can't remember the name and so can't find them again.
CommentAuthor crusoe CommentTime Sep 13th There JT - isn't that better!! You really wanted to tell someone, and you did Light sounds good in there too? I did want to tell someone something wrong with that? If your benchmark is a tumble-drier than I guess it is. If your benchmark is a washing line And I get that you gain the heat, but half the year you don't want or need the heat. Tony makes the same point.
I guess I'm an advocate for the low-tech and for efficient use of space as a first principle of ecological design. The light is excellent. Glass toughened would be a longer lasting and perhaps more ecological choice. Sadly, compromises made on account of not being prepared to spend that kind of cash on what is ultimately just a lean to.
Hi, Likewise, I dont use one, I use the summerhouse - ie shed with extra windows. Dries really well even the heavy stuff, with the windows slightly open works fine. The point with the cabinet is that if its comercially viable and been taken to market then a few folk ahve looked at it and it perhaps isnt considered a crack pot idea. So go for your own versions if the original air dry can't work. Might be seen as a gadget but if part of the house then the heat balance works.
Cheers Mike up North. You need a well insulated room for maximum drying efficiency, unless you are prepared to input additional heat. Small dehumidifiers have a fairly low wattage exact consumption will depend on operating climate , and that needs to raise the air temperature as high as possible to get rapid evaporation AND rapid condensation by the dehumidifier.
The latent heat absorbed by of evaporation is liberated on condensation from the air, so there is no net gain or loss of energy from that source.
The speed of evaporation and the efficiency of the dehumidifier are both critically dependent on air temperature - so insulation and airtightness are critical. Once you have those in place, the actual size of the dehumidifier isn't critical - it may just take more time to dry. Set the the humidistat to max extraction rate but not 'continuous'. A small domestic machine is adequate for the 8ft x 6ft insulated room. You don't need a timer as the dehumidifier if properly set will switch itself off when all is dry, providing the room is pretty airtight.
We set our room next to the small laundry room on the same floor as the bedrooms to minimise transport of clothes. Obviously in a dry climate drying on a washing line is ideal, but often it's a rare option for many people.
I looked up the suggested links to proprietary drying cabinets. My Swedish is nil so couldn't determine how that small wardrobe worked.
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