Kitchens (example: reduces formation of vapor and bad smell):
Vapors are inevitable, but in pantries, the dehumidifier may be very useful for it protects stocked food, especially grains, flours, etc.
Libraries, file rooms:
Particularly efficient, it protects books, files, and paper against fungi.
Living rooms and bedrooms:
Bedrooms may suffer with excessive humidity, especially those with an adjoining bathroom. Water vapor arising from hot showers, which flows to the bedroom and its armoires, favors the emergence of fungi. The dehumidifier keeps this humidity under control.
Home offices, offices, and computer rooms:
Protection of electric and electronic devices. Oxidation is a type of rust that corrodes, in addition to metal, electronic components. To prevent this and other equipment from deteriorating due to oxidation, it is necessary to prevent it from contacting air with high relative humidity levels or that are above recommended, which is between 50% and 60%.
Laundries, laundry rooms, areas where clothes dry:
It dries your clothes faster.
Cellars and pantries:
It maintains ideal humidity to preserve wine corks
Home theaters, sound rooms, and places of storage of files and photographic and cinematic material:
Fungi love to feed on the chemical layer that covers films. When they feed on them, they permanently destroy the photographic file. Fungi have food preferences. There is a type of fungi that feeds on glass and destroys the lenses of photographic cameras or microscopes. To recover these lenses, their curvature must be redone. Therefore, this is a very expensive process.
More questions
- Is it necessary to use the dehumidifier in both summer and winter?
- Is there something else on this topic? Something important that I did not ask due to lack of knowledge
- What of the electric bill? Does the device consume too much electrical energy? Are there any tips for saving energy and money?
- What are the tips of use so the dehumidifier operates perfectly? What should be done and what should not?
- How to choose the correct dehumidifier model? What should be taken into account to choose correctly?
- What is a dehumidifier capable of doing in the following spaces:
- What are the most recommended places for the device in the house?
- It is necessary to have both devices in the same house?
- Is there, besides the dehumidifier, an humidifier? I.e., is there a device that does the opposite? We know the problems caused by excessive humidity, but what about the lack of humidity, what can it cause to people and houses?
- Humidity in a warm country such as Brazil is around ideal or is it far from it? What are the consequences of it in people’s everyday life?
- What is the ideal humidity level in winter and summer? How it is possible to check it at home?
- I have learned that the most common technique for removing air humidity is condensing it on a cold surface. And, for this reason, if you have an air conditioning system in the room you do not need a dehumidifier. Is this true? Why?
- What are the differences between a dehumidifier, a sterilizer and an air purifier?
- In practical terms, how does the dehumidifier work? How is humidity removed from the air?
- Using the dehumidifier has any effect on human health? Which ones? How does humidity affects the body?
- Why is a dehumidifier important in a house? Why excessive humidity must be removed from the air?
- What is a dehumidifier?