We had the same mouldy ceiling bathroom issue. Even though our bathroom has a window - I guess that's a feature of living in Scotland where often it's as humid outside as it is inside! We bought mould-resistent paint, which was three times the price as normal paint and which in thought was probably a scam. But a decade later, with 4 family members taking regular showers out bathroom ceiling is still mould-free - it actually works!
regarding the subject of drinking dehumidifier water: under no circumstances should you do that as regardless of if you live alone or not. it contains the spores that would make the room mouldy if it weren't there. plus, it lacks useful minerals that your kidneys need to absorb water properly. so, don't drink humidifier water but if you want to do it as an experiment, boil it and then add the right minerals in first. there's drops to add those trace minerals back in (it's to make distilled water drinkable, but it does the trick)
I would like to know where this water is coming from. If anything, it probably has a peltier device. Very inefficient and not very good. That's why it takes days or weeks to collect a glass of water. A real dehumidifier is very power hungry and would not run off a wall wart.
That thing is not a dehumidifier, at least not a traditional one. There is no compressor. There is no hot and cold loop. There is no way in hell that thing is drawing hundreds of watts to run a dehumidifier. What it most likely is is a peltier device.
It's hilarious to me that you use bamboo toothbrush and paper straws while running the most inefficient peltier "dehumidifier" that money can buy. Running a dehumidifier is as energy intensive as running an air condition, because that is basically what it is. But this is not that. It generates "cold" by a peltier device. This is EXTREMELY inefficient. It only seems efficient to you because it is so weak, but it is far less effective watt for watt.
@@DowntheRabbitHole0 It's very small and so it's cheap to run. But it is not efficient at all. It's kind of like how an incandescent night light is very inefficient, but doesn't use enough power(because it produces very little light) to run up your bill. If you scaled this type of dehumidifier up so it could dehumidify as much as a real one, it would use many multiples of the compressor based ones. Peltier devices are very inefficient. The cold side of the device (it produces both a hot side and a cool side) has an efficiency of about 5%. It is the cool side doing the dehumidifying. The humid air is blown across the cold side causing water to condense on the "coldsink" in the same way water builds up on your glass of iced tea in the summer. A real humidifier would produce that much water in a 1/2 hour in a humid environment. But, to be fair, it would use more electricity because it is bigger and would process 100 times the amount of air per minute and such a small room probably doesn't need much dehumidifying.
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We had the same mouldy ceiling bathroom issue. Even though our bathroom has a window - I guess that's a feature of living in Scotland where often it's as humid outside as it is inside! We bought mould-resistent paint, which was three times the price as normal paint and which in thought was probably a scam. But a decade later, with 4 family members taking regular showers out bathroom ceiling is still mould-free - it actually works!
Interesting! I'll have to see if we have that paint in Canada
regarding the subject of drinking dehumidifier water: under no circumstances should you do that as regardless of if you live alone or not. it contains the spores that would make the room mouldy if it weren't there. plus, it lacks useful minerals that your kidneys need to absorb water properly.
so, don't drink humidifier water but if you want to do it as an experiment, boil it and then add the right minerals in first. there's drops to add those trace minerals back in (it's to make distilled water drinkable, but it does the trick)
I would like to know where this water is coming from. If anything, it probably has a peltier device. Very inefficient and not very good. That's why it takes days or weeks to collect a glass of water.
A real dehumidifier is very power hungry and would not run off a wall wart.
I will avoid, don't you worry
@@DowntheRabbitHole0 Yes, water from a dehumidifier is not safe to drink, even if you put it outside in Florida (where it is humid).
@@tarstarkusz thanks for confirming what I said
Perhaps your bathroom fan isnt strong enough?
I think it would need to be way stronger, like over a big stove type of extractor fan in order to dry out this room
That thing is not a dehumidifier, at least not a traditional one. There is no compressor. There is no hot and cold loop. There is no way in hell that thing is drawing hundreds of watts to run a dehumidifier. What it most likely is is a peltier device.
It's hilarious to me that you use bamboo toothbrush and paper straws while running the most inefficient peltier "dehumidifier" that money can buy. Running a dehumidifier is as energy intensive as running an air condition, because that is basically what it is. But this is not that.
It generates "cold" by a peltier device. This is EXTREMELY inefficient. It only seems efficient to you because it is so weak, but it is far less effective watt for watt.
Huh, weirdly we haven't noticed any increase in our electricity bill though. It's been six months.
@@DowntheRabbitHole0 It's very small and so it's cheap to run. But it is not efficient at all. It's kind of like how an incandescent night light is very inefficient, but doesn't use enough power(because it produces very little light) to run up your bill. If you scaled this type of dehumidifier up so it could dehumidify as much as a real one, it would use many multiples of the compressor based ones.
Peltier devices are very inefficient. The cold side of the device (it produces both a hot side and a cool side) has an efficiency of about 5%. It is the cool side doing the dehumidifying. The humid air is blown across the cold side causing water to condense on the "coldsink" in the same way water builds up on your glass of iced tea in the summer.
A real humidifier would produce that much water in a 1/2 hour in a humid environment. But, to be fair, it would use more electricity because it is bigger and would process 100 times the amount of air per minute and such a small room probably doesn't need much dehumidifying.