Safe/cost effective temp for vacant property over winter?

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akwe-xavante
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Post by akwe-xavante »

Most decent / new dehumidifiers have two options regarding the water that it creates.

One: a container or tray of some kind

Two: You usually have a second option of being able to connect a hosepipe to it that you plumb into a drain or outside in some manor. Raise up the dehumidifier above the front doors letter box (table, Coffee table etc). Keep the hose below the dehumidifier but above the letter box. All the water will drain out through the letter box.

Drill a hole through an external wall large enough to get the hose through at ground level or floor level if upstairs, again water drains away.

If you have a wooden floor and airbricks lift a carpet near an air brick. Carefully create a hole in the wooden floor, remove the airbrick and feed the hose through. Seal up with newspapers placed inside plastic bags. Afterwards replace the airbrick and repair the hole in the floor and put carpet back. If your planning on using a dehumidifier annually get a copper pipe plumbed in underfloor permanently to outflow outside and have a accessible panel in a wooden floor under the carpet that can be easily accessed when needed in future to connect the dehumidifier too as required.
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