What we read, and what we do not invent

Extraction figures and room sizes are manufacturer claims, often measured at warm/humid lab points. UK rooms are usually cooler, so real take is lower. We have not 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 does not publish the cooler rows, we say the machine is a litre class rather than a verified take at 16 °C.

We do not unbox these units for this site. We do not time anyone’s towels. We do not measure decibels in a hallway and then write them as if they were a standard. When a noise figure appears, it is 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 are not current prices. Pages that mention a band also tell you to check Amazon. We do not scrape Amazon, and we do not 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. That order is 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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