Dehumidifier....

[andy-integrale]

Thinking of investing in a dehumidifier for the garage. Trying to improve the environment as, unfortunately, its where the car spends most of it's time.

Anyone got any thoughts or recommendations on this or any other steps taken to keep their car cosy?

Cheers

Andy

[tlracing]

If the problem's really bad, buy something like a 'Carcoon' rather than an dehumidifier.

All that happens with the latter is the moisture you take out of the air returns as soon as you switch the thing off. So you either have to keep it running continually or on-off-on-off-on and put up with moisture coming back.

Carcoon dries the air (as I understand it) then recirculates dry air around the 'bubble' the car's in. Their website quotes around 2p per day running costs.

Alternatively, if the place isn't excessively damp, maintaining a good airflow will be effective. And free!

Edited by tlracing on Sunday 4th January 22:33

[AJAX50]

I've had an Ebac dehumidifier running non stop in my garage for the last 12 years, the water outlet is plumbed to outside. The garage is wood with a slate roof all insulated. Condenstion is never a problem. The car stay fantastically rust free, even if the carpets get wet I just lift them a couple of inches and they dry in no time with the hood down. The other advantage is that tools, bikes etc also benefit.

[autoholic]

I bought one from Homebase for 80 quid, it was designed for a 5 bedroom house so works great in the garage. Keeps the workshop manuals etc dry too! Best buy I ever made, apart from the car that is!

[SB - Nigel]

AJAX50 said:

I've had an Ebac dehumidifier running non stop in my garage for the last 12 years, the water outlet is plumbed to outside.

great idea just make sure you take precautions against the pipe or dehumidifier freeezing up

Carcoons can be be used to condition the battery at the same time and can even be run off 12v battery

Only disadvantage of a Carcoon is that once your car is inside you may be more relunctant to take the car out and miss many excellent motoring opportunities (plus when I had a Carcoon, 10 years ago, if the car was in there for more than a week it got a slight sticky covering, careful now, might just have been because of the garage I had to use)

[rigga]

Purchased a s/h dehumidifier off ebay for less than £30,piped water so dont have to worry about the small standard fit tank filling up too quick,removes an amazing ammount of moisture from the air,as i used to pipe it into an 18L water cooler bottle,filled it up in just under two weeks when i was on holiday...... garage is now totally dry,great investment really

[Murph7355]

I have a Ruby Dry (aka Amber Dry when in a grey case instead of white). Works very well and can be plumbed in (strongly suggest you do this!).

I have mates who have Xdrys and say they're good too.