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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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 Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 1:33 am Post subject: Anyone have a dehumidifier? |
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I'm thinking about buying a Winis dehumidifier, WDH 160 (15 평) for W198,000 or a 260 (25 평) for W214,000. (If I weren't thinking of moving, I'd spring for an air con.)
Does anyone have any experience with this kind of thing? Suggestions/recommendations? |
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teachingld2004
Joined: 29 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 4:51 am Post subject: air con |
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Buy a used air-con. You will get 2 months use out of it.
But then again, if you are thinking about moving, do not buy anything. Why drag some thing else to a new apartment?
All a dehumidifier will do is bring moisture into the room. (or remove humidity) You could just put a bucket of water in front of the fan. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 6:28 am Post subject: Re: Anyone have a dehumidifier? |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
I'm thinking about buying a Winis dehumidifier, WDH 160 (15 평) for W198,000 or a 260 (25 평) for W214,000. (If I weren't thinking of moving, I'd spring for an air con.)
Does anyone have any experience with this kind of thing? Suggestions/recommendations? |
Yeah, some years of experience with dehumidifiers and air conditioners.
Unless it's one of the window-mounted ones, an air conditioner will entail too much installation hassle & cost if you're planning to move soon. However, should you decide to get one, an air conditioner will do the job of a dehumidifier as well as cool the room down. So the dehumidifier (assuming you buy one) could become redundant. Sell it? Stick it in another room? World's most expensive doorstop?
Given such a small price difference, you're best going with the larger-capacity dehumidifier. They all have a range of settings, so you can lower the 25평 model's setting to suit your room size & climate. Better that than driving the smaller unit at full tilt for longer periods. The smaller unit will probably have a smaller condensation bucket, too, which you'll have to empty more frequently. The motor will stop automatically when the bucket is full.
AC or Dehumidifier?
Nothing beats the cold blast of an A/C, but a fan and a dehumidifier are a good, cost-saving combination for when "it ain't the deceit, it's the stupidity". The room will still be warm, but crisp and dry. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 2:10 pm Post subject: |
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| a fan and a dehumidifier are a good, cost-saving combination for when "it ain't the deceit, it's the stupidity" |
Thanks for the advice, Guru. I thought about the world's largest door stop issue until I admitted to myself that my car is the world's most expensive grocery cart. It's the portability thing I'm most thinking about--how to survive the next few weeks in this place in some kind of comfort and then moving. I had an air con in my last place but the living room had to be too cold for comfort so the bedroom was sleepable.
One of the things I wanted to know was about the bucket getting full. Visions of getting up in the middle of the night and slipping in a pool of water and breaking my neck. You've eased my mind. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 3:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
| It's the portability thing I'm most thinking about--how to survive the next few weeks in this place in some kind of comfort and then moving. I had an air con in my last place but the living room had to be too cold for comfort so the bedroom was sleepable. |
I once lived in a place that came with an A/C in the living room, but my bedroom was an oven. When the humidity got real bad, it wasn't enough to train a fan on me, so I grabbed my pillow & a sheet and slept out on the sofa for a week.
At another place there was no A/C at all, just my fan. In high summer I couldn't sleep, couldn't work, couldn't function for lack of rest, and I didn't have enough money for an A/C. I got so desperate that I put myself up at a yogwan for a few nights, and later I moved in with a GF (whose apt. had A/C  ) until the heatwave broke. Going back to my place during the day to get clean clothes, do the laundry, pick up mail -- like entering hostile territory, the heat was so sweltering. The brick exterior walls of that place were uncomfortably hot to the touch at 1 a.m.!!
Something to consider is a portable A/C, like these:
http://www.bb.co.kr/main/pd/pd_list.php?cid=020380010070&st_i=0&st_p=0&anchor_pd=list#list
The smaller/cheaper ones aren't suitable for large rooms, but I've used them in a small office and in a bedroom, and they worked out fine. They have a large-diameter heat exhaust hose (like the heat exhaust coil on a clothes dryer) that you'll have to direct out a window. They also come with plastic panels you can use to block up the open part of the window, and a big condensation tank that needs to be emptied every few hours.
Cheap(ish), self-contained, portable and scootable -- they have wheels. They're considerably more expensive than the dehumidifiers you're looking at, but less than most air-conditioners (purchase price + cables/pipes + installation).
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| One of the things I wanted to know was about the bucket getting full. Visions of getting up in the middle of the night and slipping in a pool of water and breaking my neck. You've eased my mind. |
On the dehumidifiers. No, the only problem would be waking up in the middle of the night to find yourself lying in a pool of your own sweat because the tank filled & the motor stopped. |
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ajuma
Joined: 18 Feb 2003
Location: Anywere but Seoul!!
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| Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 7:46 am Post subject: |
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| A friend and I were discussing air conditioners and she said that if you buy a new one, they'll re-install it in your new place for 2-5 years for free. If you want something short-term, those pink-covered boxes work ok, especially in closets. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 2:43 pm Post subject: |
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I forgot: is a dehumidifier portable? Can I move it from room to room?
A pink-covered box? I don't know what those are, but sleeping in a closet wasn't what I had in mind. |
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inkoreaforgood
Joined: 15 Dec 2003
Location: Inchon
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| Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 3:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
I forgot: is a dehumidifier portable? Can I move it from room to room?
A pink-covered box? I don't know what those are, but sleeping in a closet wasn't what I had in mind. |
Don't know about the Korean ones exactly, but I'd think so. They are just condensors really, so no reason to install them in anything. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
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| Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 4:16 pm Post subject: |
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(I think I've posted on these same topics once every summer since I joined Dave's. Maybe this, in a very remote way, is how teachers feel as the years go by. I should review my lecture notes from last year, but I can't find them.)
Home-use dehumidifiers--the electric ones--are portable and there's no "installation" other than unpacking them and plugging them in. If they're of a decent capacity (as measured by pyong), they will be quite heavy. Like lifting a stack of bricks. This is why they have wheels to let you move them from room to room.
Now as for those pink plastic "HAMA" (hippo) boxes, those damnable, all-but-useless, "물먹는 하마" boxes... They are my own personal mysterious-fan-death gripe with Korea. Just as so many foreigners get their panties in a twist over the locals' unfounded belief in that old wive's tale, I've been known to get nearly apoplectic when I see those pink boxes used in situations where only a strong dehumidifier will suffice. And just like mysterious fan-death, higher education is no guarantee against being hoodwinked. The most amazing, laughable case has to be the National Museum of Korea putting those garish pink boxes, with the dumb hippo cartoon on them, right inside huge glass displays of paintings & caligraphy. By God, not only is that the tackiest thing I've ever seen, but you'd have to stack enough to fill a car -- AND discard & replace them every day -- to have any real.... ah, you get the point.
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