During the colder months, the most common phone call that we get is from customers asking why their dehumidifier has stopped collecting water. In fact, there are periods where we know we’ll get lots of these calls, and it’s when the temperatures are below freezing and there’s often snow on
Spoke to a customer this morning who asked if the fact that his Housing Association windows were old and drafty was the reason why he had condensation and mould on his walls. I knew what he was fishing for because he said that he had been onto his housing association
Local newspapers are a never ending source of stories about damp housing. Type those words into Google news and hardly a week goes by without a tenant complaining about the quality of their council housing via the local paper. The stories are always very similar, tenant blames council, council blames
This is a more common question than you might think. Whilst some homeowners and tenants are plagued by condensation and damp, the people next door seem to have a perfectly dry environment and no problems at all! It can be hugely frustrating to be dealing with the consequences of regular
Often when people are buying a dehumidifier for the first time one of the features that they look for is a timer. They think that the timer on a dehumidifier will allow them to control when the unit turns on each day and this will be the best way to
This is one article that I have not had to think about so far this summer! The British summer has a reputation for rain but this year has taken the biscuit and we have been talking more about drying out after a flood than we have about keeping cool. The
In Britain we tend to use our dehumidifiers mostly in the winter and then put them away in the spring, but this is the completely wrong approach to take. Relative humidity is a funny one, it effects all of our houses to a lesser or greater extend through increased heating
This week in Great Britain we are enjoying some long overdue hot weather, indeed this might actually be our summer, as whether the warm spell will last or not is always a lottery here (and as with the lottery we normally lose!). But elsewhere in the world where hot days
Meaco was founded in 1991 and over the years we have featured in trade magazines and national newspapers (Guardian, Daily Mirror etc.). We are also seen as a respected source of advice and as such have been quoted on the advice pages of the national newspapers and I regularly talk
Sales of dehumidifiers peak during the winter when the outside air temperature drops and people see condensation on their windows and for those that are really unlucky mould growing on outside walls. In the UK, demand for dehumidifier used to drops off as the weather warms up and surface temperatures
As I write this, the temperature in Guildford is dropping down to -5°C or worse. In the winter, it’s the days when the skies are
Drying laundry indoors is a challenge most of us face on a weekly basis, especially during the colder months. While tumble dryers might seem like
With the longer nights rolling in, temperatures dropping and the October price cap rise, switching on the heating has become more expensive than ever. We
As of October 1st, 2024, UK households will see electricity prices rise from 22.36p/kWh to 24.50p/kWh under the new Energy Price Cap. This 9.5% increase
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