What we read, and what we do not invent

Extraction figures and room sizes are what the maker claims, and they’re often measured at a warm, humid lab point. Your rooms in the UK are usually cooler, so that’s a lower real take. We haven’t run our own lab tests.

The product list is a fixed set of amazon.co.uk ASINs. We keep those identifiers exact. Each review starts from the manufacturer’s published specification — or, where the brand is silent, from UK retailer specification sheets that quote the same model. Meaco’s stepped extraction tables are the backbone of the litre argument. Where Pro Breeze doesn’t publish the cooler rows, we say the machine is a litre class rather than a verified take at 16 °C.

We don’t unbox these units for this site. We don’t time your towels. We don’t measure decibels in a hallway and then write them as if they were a standard. When a noise figure appears, it’s the manufacturer or retailer claim, labelled as such. Laundry mode is described as a control behaviour (continuous extraction, often with a high fan), not as a drying-time guarantee.

Soft price bands in the data file are a rough recent range from UK listings. They aren’t current prices. If a page mentions a band, it also tells you to check Amazon. We don’t scrape Amazon, and we don’t call the Product Advertising API.

The Best 5 is a list of roles: small heated flat, quiet everyday 12 L, laundry workhorse, whole home, and value 12 L. It’s an editorial judgement about which job each ASIN is in the set to do. The EcoAir desiccants sit outside that five because they are the cold-room answer; they still have full reviews, and the DD1 is called out in the how-to.

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