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… People would be more likely to know the area of their home/floors vs the total volume…

When’s the last time you saw a real estate ad with cubic inches/feet/meters on it?

This makes perfect sense.

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Well yeah but it’s still funny when thought of in the way the caption says

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They assume 8-9ft ceilings.

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Wrong. People assume metric ceilings. The area in question is also measured in metric.

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Yeah, OP fundamentally misunderstanding. Also see: Specs of every wireless router.

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A router would be different though. It would keep the same radius regardless of building geometry as it’s signal degrades with physical distance from its antenna.

A dehumidifier works by running air through it and removing moisture then exhausting the now dry air out. The dry air would then intermix back into the room’s air, lowering it’s total humidity level. It may take a little more time based on the turbidity of the rooms air, but a dehumidifier would have the capacity to dry a .25x20x24m the same as a 3x5x8m room as both contain the same amount of air in their 120m³.

Edit: added units

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You see this on a lot of products. This is because a lot of people simply don’t understand how cubic meters work, or need to think about it where they know pretty much how much floorspace they have. And in practice it doesn’t matter, most people have ceilings somewhere around 2.5 meters and these indicators aren’t that precise anyways.

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A 2m ceiling seems rather claustrophobic to me

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I might be wrong but I assumed it’s perfectly obvious to OP and it’s the kind of joke where something is funny because you stretch the meaning to read it literally. I chuckled actually, despite it making perfect sense.

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You had a great post going until you screwed it all up by saying ceilings were only 2m high.

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Yeah: 2m or 1,50m, who really cares.

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But it does matter… someone with vaulted ceilings at 12’ instead of 8’ would have this be 50% as efficient, which is huge.

The fact that you blundered the only important piece of information is ironic as shit since it absolutely matters….

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How does that work when a standard door is 2.1m tall?

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Anyone who has ever done anything related to doors knows, there is no such thing as a standard door.

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My wife: We don’t need to replace the door frame just the door

Me crosscutting and ripping my new door to fit the old frame: Great idea honey

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There is absolutely a minimum size that doors need to be for almost any house. Yes you can incorrectly install other doors, but codes provide a minimum size for professionals to follow when installing. Which is 2.1m in most of the world. Other places will have their own standard size door, but yes every country absolutely has standard door sizes.

Why do you claim otherwise…? Just go look up any big box store door catalog lmfao, plenty of standard door options for even home owners. If you’re cutting a door to size, you’ve done fucked up in almost every case.

And it’s funny you say something like this while being completely off base about story heights… fucking lmfao. Sure we should listen to your “expertise” hahahah, you don’t even know how tall a room is, yet we should trust you know anything about doors? Really? Seriously… dude?

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Most ceilings are a foot and a half or more above the door

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Who lives on a plane?

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SNAKES,

MUTHAFUCKA!

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People in the rainy parts of Spain.

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Super mario?

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The Square, the protagonist in Flatland

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Snakes?

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Let’s just say every device advertising it could work on X meters (square, cubic, whatever) is a lie.

What are the conditions? How pronounced you expect your result to be?

This is especially funny with heaters, for example, when heaters of the same power advertise vastly different area of effect and people go “Oh! This 1500W heater can heat up 50 square meters, so much better than this 2000W heater advertised for 30 square meters!”

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So I would be best installing it at my nose height?

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For best results buy one per family member per floor. Actually better get two so you can have one at seated height too.

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Nah the air isn’t constrained to the plane so most of it should pass through eventually and get purified, maybe use some fans to speed it up if needed.

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