litres – large capacity. A sensible choice if you have a lot of moisture that you need to get rid of fast. For example, clearing up after a flood or dealing with lots of water in the air through drying laundry indoors. Wheels/castors These could come in useful if your dehumidifier is heavy – they can weigh from 6kg to more than 16kg. More information on quality can be found in this old but still very helpful article from Harvard Business Review.

The advantage of this type of dehumidifier is that it works well in warm and cold spaces. The only downside is that they tend to release warm air into a room, which you may not want in an already-heated home. However, they are ideal for a cold garage, loft or conservatory as they can operate below 10 degrees, unlike a compressor dehumidifier. They are also much quieter, so they might be a preferable option for you to use in a bedroom. Their main disadvantage is that they use a lot more energy and therefore cost more to run. Refrigerant (compressor) dehumidifier Of the 12 products, we discovered that 4 were more expensive and 6 were cheaper than Argo by Ebac 15 Litre Dehumidifier. Prices from Ebac

As you can imagine, pricing is one of the most important factors of any purchasing decision. We can find the perfect product for our needs, that fits the brief in every single way. But if it doesn’t fit our budgets, we simply can’t (or at least shouldn’t) buy it. The next step was to try and narrow down our search even more. So we’ve already looked the prices of products in the Dehumidifiers category. Then we’ve also looked at the prices of products from Ebac. So this step combines the two and looks specifically at the price you’d expect to pay for Ebac branded products in the Dehumidifiers category. Maintaining an optimal humidity level around 55% relative humidity is the ideal level for comfortable living.

Find out more about improving your indoor air quality at home. Moisture absorbers: can they help with damp? Timer Allows you to program the dehumidifier to turn on and/or off after a specified time. This could help you to save money if you're on a tariff offering cheaper energy at certain times of day, or if you want to leave the dehumidifier on for a few hours after going out, but you don't need it on all day.Our trials showed that moisture absorbers won’t do much to reduce damp in a room that’s routinely used for drying laundry. So moisture absorbers can help with small day-to-day damp issues, but shouldn’t be relied upon for any serious damp-busting. Continuous-drain facility Many dehumidifiers allow you to connect a hose and flush the collected water away to a low-level drain. This will save you having to empty the water tank, or prevent the machine from getting full and switching off if you're not around to empty it. Note that dehumidifiers with this function often don’t come with a hose in the box, so you’ll probably have to buy it separately. Desiccant dehumidifiers extract water using an absorbent material to draw moisture from the air. Then an internal heater warms it so the moisture condenses and drips into the tank below.