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Heating system to dry clothes inside

  • 16-11-2016 11:15pm
    #1
    Nickypicky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72 ✭✭


    Will be starting my self build project soon and am obsessing over everything to ensure things are done right.

    I am wondering about any new ideas about drying clothes indoors ? Surely there is something. From researching myself I'm wondering could a Hrv system be put in a utility room only with a clothes drying cupboard , as such a clothes horse in a cupboard. Seems popular in America, but with different climates and all that I'd love Irish feedback !!

    Any mad ideas/experiences welcome!!!!!


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  • #2
    gctest50
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭gctest50


    A dehumidifier in a decent utility room ( not one you have to walk though to get in and out etc )


    https://www.meaco.com/proddetail.php?prod=DD8L


  • #3
    OwenM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 859 ✭✭✭OwenM


    Ireland has a humid climate so it's not going to work as well as some of the accounts you might read online.

    A cupboard with a small extraction fan in an exterior wall might do what you want, the question is where is it pulling air from - if it's inside the house then you will loose quite a bit of heat, if you put another vent (from outside) then it's only really going to be effective from about 11am to 5pm - late spring to early autumn.

    Is 'HRV' a heat recovery system where the incoming fresh air is heated with stale air to be expelled? I imagine this is a serious bit of machinery and you might be over engineering things a little unless you have other plans or uses for it.

    Traditional Irish approach was the hot-press where the immersion cylinder kept things warm and free from damp but a lot of houses don't have them anymore or if they do they are heavily thermally insulated.

    You could build a traditional hot press with a small electric radiator on a timeswitch or thermostat in it and put your extraction fan in as well also on a timeswitch that maybe switches on for 15 mins every hour, this might dry 'very damp' clothing quite well - but this is all me thinking off the top of my head...


  • #4
    MicktheMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,880 ✭✭✭MicktheMan


    Nickypicky wrote: »
    I am wondering about any new ideas about drying clothes indoors ? Surely there is something. From researching myself I'm wondering could a Hrv system be put in a utility room only with a clothes drying cupboard , as such a clothes horse in a cupboard. Seems popular in America, but with different climates and all that I'd love Irish feedback !!

    Any mad ideas/experiences welcome!!!!!

    Discussion here.


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