Advice please. I am thinking of getting one of these for the garage to keep the damp/musty-ness down. Had a butchers on e-bay and there are hundreds. Can anyone recommend what make/type I should be looking for? Thanks

I was thinking about getting one too cos the shed seems to draw loads of moisture. dont know if you need to base the buying of one on area size so im quite interested to see what replys you get to this.

I would recommend a heater rather than the de-hum.

We have a de-hum at work which is costing £1000 a week to rent and the heaters blowing hot air in the other part of the building are doing a much better job.

Warm air and ventilation

That's interesting Martin. I though de-hum because I thought I could leave it on which, of course, I could not do with a heater. Come on folks!

If the heaters you have are the "jet engine" gas type then you do need the de-hum as the heaters chuck out a lot of moisture in the hot air.


Not sure about the size of de-hum for your shed/garage, but make sure you can modify it so it can drain externally, if it drains to its onboard tank you have to remember to keep emptying it or it will shut down.

Also keep an eye on the power rating for the de-hum (1000W uses 1 unit of power per hour), otherwise you will be selling the bike to pay the leckie bill!!

I have used the small tubular heaters in the past (only 600mm long and 120W) you can fix them to a piece of board and put them on the floor under the bike.


Miz.

Bung a tubular green house heater under your bike...low power, designed to be used in those conditions etc

Nah the heater is a diesel powered one that blows dry hot air.

Was going to add the bit about remembering to drain your de-hum...

Hope you get it sorted

Err when you burn diesel the result is carbon dioxide and water.

Or do you mean its basically a diesel generator outside hooked up to an electric heater inside ?

That's an idea mate. Will look into buying one from local garden center

The tubular heaters are also available from your local electrical wholesalers, may be cheaper than the garden centre..

Miz.

Thanks all

Its a big fancy heater that lives outside in the rain, diesel and cold air goes in one end, exhaust and moisture comes out the top and hot dry air blows into the building.

It is an industrial thingie, I don't use it at home. I only mentioned it to say that it works better than a de-hum in drying out the building we are currently trying to dry out.

Perhaps I should have worded my 1st post differently.

It dryed out my car very well ......


Abet it was a little excessive