We should point out that I took these sound readings using a smartphone app inside a home with wooden floors, and that sound levels will vary depending on your carpet, curtains and furnishings. A dehumidifier isn't the most exciting of household appliances, but it's obvious that attention has still been paid to the MeacoDry Arete One dehumidifier's design. Missed or late payments may incur additional fees including interest charges and have a negative impact on your credit file and ability to obtain credit in the future. In extremis, plants suffering from heat stress will exhibit a range of adverse stress responses, including tissue senescence, shoot and root growth inhibition, and damage or loss of fruit.

How often depends on factors such as your environment and how often you use it, but on average Meaco suggests every three months. When the target relative humidity has been reached, the dehumidifier will switch to fan only mode to check that the relative humidity is stable.The only quieter dehumidifiers I've come across are Peltier models, like the Pro Breeze 1500ml Mini Dehumidifier. The performance of this dehumidifier has been developed around the British climate and the British user. There’s a power button, a button to select humidity, a clothes-drying mode, and a button to select the nighttime mode, which also doubles up as a child lock button.

This makes it the most powerful unit in Meaco’s current range and significantly quieter than the outgoing Meaco 25L model, which could dish out up to 50dB(A). However, it does not feature an ionizer, which is commonly found in other models and can help further improve air quality. While traditionally compressor dehumidifiers have not been so efficient at low temperatures, the Arete One has been designed to operate from a balmy 35ºC all the way down to a chilly 5ºC. Once notified we can send someone to collect the goods and then either give you a refund or do an exchange. Whilst performance can vary when it comes to drying clothes due to factors like ambient room temperature and the type of fabrics you've washed, I tested the MeacoDry Arete One dehumidifier several times whilst drying washes and my washing was always airing-cupboard dry and ready to put away once the cycle had completed.Setting this dehumidifier up was very easy, we took it out of the box, removed the packaging and plugged it in. The downside of the Arete One’s hassle-free approach is that you don’t have as much direct control over fan speeds, timers or noise levels that you get with some other dehumidifiers. That means you don't need to constantly empty the dehumidifier as I found I was doing with other models. When the relative humidity is 15% above the target level, the machine runs at maximum fan speed to bring the humidity down as quickly as possible. Our metal Crittall windows can create a lot of condensation and hence mould, these great pieces of kit mitigate the problems associated with a high relative humidity.