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Indoor heating is often gas fired, or worse. This means that any heater that uses a heatpump, which is every dryer nowadays, is going to beat your house heater
by brnt 5y ago
Indoor heating is often gas fired, or worse. This means that any heater that uses a heatpump, which is every dryer nowadays, is going to beat your house heater in terms of efficiency by a factor of 5 or so.
Plus, your house would get humid fast with indoor drying. Around here people don't often have aircos that can dehumidify, so opening the windows is the only solution, reducing efficiency even further. And keeping the moist inside also causes heating costs to go up, since you've just increased the thermal mass of your air. Plus, moist indoor air has adverse health effects of its own. Plus: I'd basically need to reserve a room just for drying.
No, a dryer is on all accounts the better solution.
- selfhoster11 5y agoA dehumidifier can run as a standalone device. An AC system is not needed for that.
- brnt 5y agoSure, but in any case, you're going to need to expend energy to undo the effect of indoor drying somehow.
- selfhoster11 5y agoI agree. I just wanted to mention that expensive air conditioning systems are not needed to make this work. A standalone dehumidifier unit that can cover an entire flat starts at about $170 for the cheaper units, and doesn't require any installation beyond plugging it into a socket. In contrast, AC is usually more involved and expensive.