Is a building dryer the same as a dehumidifier?
Yes. Building dryer is the term given to larger capacity dehumidifiers that typically get
used for drying out the plaster and concrete in new homes and are also used for drying rooms that have been damaged after a flood, whether this has been caused by a washing machine leaking or a major natural disaster.
When does a dehumidifier become a building dryer?
For example if you look at the Meaco 10L and the Meaco 20L they are very definitely classed as dehumidifiers. But if you took them out of their plastic casings and put them into metal cases they would the be called building dryers, even if the internals are exactly the same.
Are the Meaco 30L and Meaco 40L building dryers?
The Meaco 30L and Meaco 40L are highly efficient dehumidifiers in plastic casings and they do extract 30 and 40 litres per day, which is high for a domestic dehumidifier and perfectly reasonable for a building dryer. If you were to put them into a room that needed drying alongside a metal cased 30 or 40 litre dehumidifier then they would extract exactly the same amount of water as the metal cased machines. So what are they?
The difference is how they are being handled. Metal box dehumidifiers like the Nader
Yard range can withstand a larger amount of bouncing around. Whether that is in a van as they are being transported or when they are being moved into position in the house. The Meaco 30L and the Meaco 40L have softer plastic sides and smaller castors and therefore need more care when being transported and moved. But if this can be achieved then the performance will be the same and the cost saving is huge.
So there might be a justifiable difference, a building dryer is a dehumidifier in a tougher, metal housing. But if you want to save some money then don’t get trapped into thinking
that only a building dryer can be used to dry out a water damaged room.
