Five roles, from a small heated flat to a laundry workhorse

01 · Small room / flat

Meaco publishes the 10 L headline at a warm, wet laboratory point, and also publishes 4.34 L/day at 20 °C / 60 % RH. That second number is the one a heated British room is closer to, which is why this is a small-flat machine rather than a laundry workhorse.

Recent UK listings have sat around £150–£170 — check Amazon for today's price. Extraction claims are warm-lab figures; see Method.

02 · Quiet everyday

The same quiet Arete One body as the 10 L, stepped up to Meaco’s 12 L table. At 20 °C / 60 % RH the official take is 5.23 L/day — the everyday heated-flat figure. At 10 °C / 60 % RH it falls to 1.95 L/day. That is the everyday heated-flat compressor in this guide, Compare it with the OmniDry 12 L on price and documentation.

Recent UK listings have sat around £170–£190 — check Amazon for today's price. Extraction claims are warm-lab figures; see Method.

03 · Laundry / damp house workhorse

A 20 L compressor sold as the damp-house and indoor-washing machine. The tank holds 5.5 litres, and there is a one-button laundry mode. The 20 L headline is still a laboratory maximum. Versus Meaco’s 20 L, the practical differences are the larger tank, the included hose, the softer price band, and a noisier, less documented spec sheet.

Recent UK listings have sat around £140–£180 — check Amazon for today's price. Extraction claims are warm-lab figures; see Method.

04 · Whole home

Meaco’s 20 L table is the reason this is the whole-home pick. At 20 °C / 80 % RH the official take is 14.02 L/day — a more useful British-house row than the 30 °C headline. At 20 °C / 50 % RH the accompanying German-language table reads 5.78 L/day. The body is a larger Arete at 618 × 366 × 272 mm and 15 kg. The tank holds 4.8 litres, and published noise is 38–40 dB(A).

Recent UK listings have sat around £230–£270 — check Amazon for today's price. Extraction claims are warm-lab figures; see Method.

05 · Value 12L

A 12 L compressor sold for less than the Meaco equivalent. The tank is 2 litres, with a humidistat, a 24-hour timer and a drain hose on typical UK listings. The headline litre is still a warm-lab figure, and Pro Breeze does not publish the stepped temperature table Meaco does.

Recent UK listings have sat around £100–£140 — check Amazon for today's price. Extraction claims are warm-lab figures; see Method.