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Title: Home Drying Room
Post by: Ed on June 24, 2013

Being so particular about keeping my gear clean it seemed the one thing I was spending more time on than washing gear was drying it.

I found myself wondering, what if I had a drying room?

Bathroom + coathangers, clothes horses etc.

Meaco DD8L dehumidifier + door closed

One drying room!

Successfully dried a winter down bag (800g of down) overnight, it's now puffy and dry as a bone.

Here's a snapshot of the temp and humidity of the room after a few hours:

(https://photos-2.dropbox.com/t/0/AABtDnEcuP10R3l-gdOkZQiWoa4LU5Yq9GhlGIVniLgj8g/12/14035139/jpeg/1024x768/3/1372064400/0/2/2013-06-24%2007.23.05.jpg/4qezpTqydGY0FxD7R1rI2scDWJhYsIeUjcF2aZs7VUo)

Title: Re: Home Drying Room
Post by: GMB on June 26, 2013

Nice one  ;)

It's a hard thing to do right.

The last bag I washed I took it straight to the dry cleaners and got them to tumble dry it on low with 3 tennis balls. Was done in less than an hour and a great job too.

Title: Re: Home Drying Room
Post by: RedLeader on June 27, 2013

This is a pretty cool idea, though I dread to think the cost of running the dehumidifier overnight never mind buying it in the first place. I just hang stuff in the garage, then forget about it until I'm next out ;)

Can't see the pic tho, it's a broken link for me.

Title: Re: Home Drying Room
Post by: Ed on June 27, 2013

Its a dessicant so in a closed environment its grand unless you try to dry a down sleeping bag overnight lol.  It runs on standby around the house all the time as we dry clothes in the house kicks in a few times a night.

I quite often need stuff dried for a trip later the same week so I'm kinda stuffed options wise :'(

Here's the pic

(http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/06/28/6y9yse5y.jpg)