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xkcd #3109: Dehumidifier
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Turning the dehumidifier on ten minutes early means there aren't ten to twenty minutes where the shower's running with no dehumidification where condensation is able to settle on all the walls unimpeded, and the extra condensation takes a couple of extra hours to dry out again. Regardless of whether my family try to turn off the dehumidifier prematurely (and I only mentioned that as why I'd originally set a hygrometer up to graph the humidity in the bathroom, not as an ongoing problem), if that happens several times a day when someone showers, that's more than enough dampness for black mold to form.