I recently invested in a dehumidifier for my home.
I live in a hot and humid state.
In fact, it is the state that people think of when they think of hot and humid weather conditions, and I am in the hottest and wettest area of that state. Anyway, I saw it fit to invest in a dehumidifier because I felt that the humidity levels in my beach home were too high. I’ve heard that an air conditioner should be able to regulate the humidity levels within your beach home and keep it cool all by itself. A friend recommended that there might be something wrong with my air conditioner and that I might want to get that checked out before buying a dehumidifier. I did not want to do this. I told her that if I called out a Heating & Air Conditioning serviceman, I was afraid that I would end up spending a lot of cash that she did not necessarily have at the moment. So, for now, I opted to buy a dehumidifier instead. However, after using it for a bit, I said that it wasn’t working the way I thought it would. My friend asked me how long it had been since I turned it on. I said it had been about 6 hours. Something told him that a dehumidifier takes longer than that to show results. He looked it up for me and he found that a dehumidifier really won’t accomplish any noticeable change in the humidity levels until about 12 hours in. My friend told me as much, and I decided to be patient.