 | Soleus Air CFM-40 E 40-Pint Dehumidifier with Humidistat
so far, so good! -- 2010-03-03
I investigated dehumidifiers before purchasing this one and I am happy with its performance so far (I've only had it a month).
It's quiet, unobtrusive, and does what its supposed to do. Price was decent as well.
Nice & quiet! -- 2010-03-01
I tried a Fridgedaire model that sounded like a compressor. This one is in my bedroom and is quieter than my HEPA air filter in the quiet mode. Every once in a while, one can hear water trickling through the system but this occurs when full or on the intermittent mode. I've had this Soleus for 2 months and will keep it.
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 | Soleus Air DP1-70-03, 70 Pint Portable Energy Star Dehumidifier, White
Soleus Air DP1 70-pint dehumidifier -- 2009-12-10
Works as advertised - dried out our basement very quickly and is keeping it dry. Unbelievable how sensitive it is - when placed in the gym, it actually detects the increased humidity from running on the treadmill. Very easy to empty and clean the filter.
Love this dehumidifyer -- 2009-11-28
Recieved this unit by Fed EX. Package really beat up unpon arrival. Even the inside box had damage. However the dehumidifyer survived the trip ok. WDorks nicely. It is not noisey as I expected. Plan on leaving it in my home all summer running with the hose draining into my ditchen sink. Any old piece of garden hose will wdork. Not necessary to buy the hose sepeerastly if you have an old hose you can cut a piece off of. Ran alot at first but now has settled down and keeps the house atd 40% humidity with no trouble. Would highly recommend this unit. I have another unit up north that is bigger but is not as nice as this one.
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 | Frigidaire FAD504TDD 50-Pint Dehumidifier, White
very good dehu -- 2010-03-01
I like it very much, I am buying a sacond for under my crawl space 50 pint also a 70 pint for 40.00 more
the dry air blows from the side sucks from the front I like that
Works great! -- 2010-01-31
I was a little hesitant buying this dehumidifier without any reviews on Amazon, but last year's model was highly-regarded so I figured there wasn't too much of a risk. All in all, I'm very pleased with my purchase.
Pros:
- Looks great... I know it's a dehumidifier, but it doesn't hurt that it actually isn't hideous
- Really sucks moisture out of the air
- Good energy efficiency
- Multitude of options on how to run (timer on/off, humidity level, continuous operation)
- Auto-restart after power failure
Cons:
- Not the quietest dehumidifier. I've noticed with mine that it tends to start off pretty noisy and level out after about 30 minutes
- No adjustment to the vent airflow is possible, it would be nice if you could direction it up/down/left/right, but this isn't a major issue
Overall impression:
Some reviewers of the last model had difficulty removing the bucket -- mine has posed no problems. I believe that they didn't read the instructions, which clearly say to squeeze in the sides of the bucket gently in order to remove. For those who, like me, have to deal with ridiculously high electricity costs you'll be happy to know that it's a quite efficient model for its size. This dehumidifier reads out around 530 watts on my Kill-a-Watt (measured after it's had time to settle for about 15 minutes. I've noticed it tends to spike when you turn it on, then decrease rapidly, then slowly rise up to about the measured amount).
I cannot comment on its durability, but will provide an update in the future.
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 | Frigidaire 25-PINT Dehumidifier
Terrible, returned immediately -- 2010-03-05
This dehumidifier works, but is so incredibly loud it isn't usable.
We purchased two dehumidifiers at the same time: this one, and the Soleus Air CFM-40 E 40-Pint Dehumidifier with Humidistat. It's absolutely amazing how different they are. We let both run all day while we were at work, and they both did a great job at collecting water.
However, the Frigidaire is so loud we can't use it *at all* when we're home. No exaggeration. I turned it on in our bedroom, closed the door, then walked clear across the house to our dining room and could still hear it loud and clear.
If I'm standing next to it while it's on, I can't hear a word my wife is saying. I have no idea how anyone can live with this in their home.
We're returning it asap and getting a second Soleus. It's a little more expensive, but it's so quiet we can leave it on at night in our kids' room and they can barely hear it. The Soleus also has a larger water tank and takes up less space.
Dampness in the home -- 2010-03-03
We recently moved into a new (new to us) home. It had been vacant for a while and was very damp. Each morning the window sills were dripping water to the floor and the tile floors felt wet. We ordered this dehumidifier and in the first 24 hours we had to empty it three times. The second day we only emptied once, and could easily notice the difference in the house. Now it is set on automatic and only comes on some mornings for less than an hour. Yes, it is a bit noisy, but it works great and is well worth the money.
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 | Sunpentown SD-350TI Mini Dehumidifier with UV Light and TiO2
Great Dehumidifier -- 2010-03-03
Needed something to take dampness out of a closed in walk in closet off the bathroom. This little dehumidifier did the trick and was extremely quite.
Like a sponge! -- 2010-02-06
We have a rather large basement apartment and have several dehumidifiers. This one is in the living room/kitchen area. I has been great in picking up all moisture. This has been a really wet winter and this item has not disappointed. Great product for my home.
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 | Frigidaire FAD704TDD 70-Pint Dehumidifier, White
Great Unit so far - even in a cold garage -- 2010-02-22
I've been using this dehumidifier for about 2 weeks now. I guess it is a brand new model for this year and that is why I am the first review. I figured that last years model had good reviews so this years model can't be too bad. Plus I've had great luck with our 16 year old Frigidaire refrigerator so they must know compressors well.
Unit was boxed very well and packaged acceptally from Amazon. You cut the plastic straps off and lift off the box exterior from the base. You can then pick up the unit from the handle on top. It is a plastic handle but doesn't feel fragile when you lift it. It is pretty heavy, but wasn't a problem for me to carry downstairs to my garage.
Setup was easy if I remember correctly. Just pull off some tape in a couple of places and plug in the cord. I had it run on continuous for several days but have now dropped it down to keeping it at 35 or 40 percent. It has digital pushbutton controls which I haven't really explored too much. There is a 2 digit numeric display which I think shows the set value and after a moment the current humidity that it is seeing. I'd have to check the manual on that for sure though. That is the way it acted.
I current have it in a garage that is not very warm. It has been into the upper 30's and 40's there the past couple of weeks. I needed this dehumidifier out there to keep a bunch of woodworking tools from rusting. I drive the car into the garage and all of the snow drips off of it and onto the concrete. I was worried about the humidity level in there even in the winter. The equipment I have out there is worth too much to have it rust!
It is really sucking the moisture out of the air though. After about 5 days of running, I had a full bucket. It holds a lot of water. The bucket is easy to remove from the unit. It has a handle to carry it with. There isn't really a good spout on the bucket to pour it out of though - at least I haven't found a corner that works well yet. I poured the water down the floor drain and it kind of splashes a bit.
There is a way to hook a threaded garden hose up to the unit so you can just dump the water into a floor drain or wherever.
That is probably my biggest gripe is that they should of included a small 2-4 foot hose for that already. I don't want to go buy some 25 foot garden hose and cut it off to what I need. I'm going to see if I can buy a threaded end and basically make my own out of some tubing or something. I don't want to have to dump the bucket every few days and since I have a floor drain right there, that is the way I would operate it. Of course if you are using this in your house without access to an easy drain, you'll have to remove the bucket and maybe dump it in a bathtub or something.
I would imagine that as soon as the humidity gets here this summer, this unit will really be working hard. Of course opening the garage doors a couple times of day will really let the humidity back in but it will just have to pull it back out.
One more thing - I could NOT find this specific unit listed on any Frigidaire websites which kind of worried me that it is some off-model unit or something. I think Amazon just probably has access to selling it and have it listed before Frigidaire actually has it listed up on their website.
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 | Eva-dry Edv-1100 Electric Petite Dehumidifier, with FREE Cleaning Cloth
Liked it -- 2010-01-31
I bought in November 2009 for a small bathroom and so far so good. I am glad I bought this.
Worked well for 1 year -- 2010-01-04
This was a nice product (small size, and it worked) but it died after 1 year. The on/off button just got stuck in the on position but oddly enough when stuck in the on position it was actually off. There was no way to turn it on again. In other words, questionable quality of manufacture.
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| Soleus Air DP1-40-03 40-Pint Portable Energy Star Dehumidifier
Works as advertised -- 2009-08-16
The Soleus dehumidifier is exactly as advertised. Energy efficient way to take the water out of the air. It's not exactly whisper quiet, but it noticeably quieter than our older machine.
Good dehumidifier with a couple quirks - noise and tricky hose fitting -- 2009-05-31
I've had one of Soleus' CFM-25 dehumidifiers for 4 years now, and I was amazed by how quiet it was. So was my mom -- she bought 2 of them (in the 40 pint size) for her basement. The CFM line wasn't Energy Star qualified, though, and I'm very eco-conscious -- I recycle and compost everything I can, I've insulated my house to the nines, I walk back and forth to work rather than driving for as many months of the year as the weather permits. So I thought I'd give one of the Energy Star models a try, despite the notes on the larger Energy Star model that it was considerably louder than the non-Energy Star Soleus CFM-25 model I already owned.
My old one (which is still running but needed help to deal with my basement) is a 25-pint model. This new Energy Star one is a 40-pint model. It isn't much larger than the 25 pint one, to my surprise. But yes, it's MUCH louder than the other model. I wouldn't want to keep this one in my basement television room.
But since this one is in the room with the sump pump and the washer and dryer, I don't mind its noise as much as I would in other locations. And this one is rated for winter use as well as summer, which is also a bonus for me.
On the other hand, one of the reviews on the non-Energy Star CFM models said that the only thing keeping that line from an Energy Star rating was the fact that it didn't cycle off, based on the reviewer's own energy use testing. And I think I may need a larger dehumidifier down there to replace my 25 pint one -- as I said, the 4-year-old one definitely still works, but according to the humidity meter on the new Energy Star one, it's having a hard time keeping the humidity down to 55% if the 25 pint one fills up and the 40 pint's running solo. I want to keep the humidity down to the recommended 50% to cut down basement mold and mildew issues. And the 40 pint model fills up its bucket a LOT faster than the 20 pint model does.
Ah, yes, about that filling the bucket thing. I tried to attach a garden hose to the 40 pint model to have it dump into the sump pump. It took several tries to get the garden hose tightened down enough to actually be water-tight, due to very limited finger space. It has threads on the outside of the little adapter-slot that are meant for garden-hose-size adapters, but I can definitely understand why some people couldn't get it attached well enough to use a garden hose and had to use an internally-fitting smaller-diameter hose on the inside instead. Even with the hose as finger-tight as I could get it, it filled up its bucket and stopped running a couple of times before I got down there with a pipe wrench and made sure the hose was on all the way to the base of the screws. And even at that, there are still some drips in the bucket, though now they're just that (drips) and I don't have to check it twice a day like I used to.
I took a star off the rating for the combination of the noise (compared to Soleus' much quieter other models) and the difficulty of getting a drain hose to really attach right.
The two things I do like better about this model than about the quieter and smaller CFM-25 one are:
1) The digital humidity meter, which the CFM line doesn't have. The humidity meter tells you in real time what the actual humidity is (I'd had no idea that my small dehumidifier by itself was leaving the spring-rain basement humidity in the 75% area until I tested a manual humidistat down there, yelped, and went to order this guy to help it out).
2) The higher capacity means faster dehumidification, not larger physical size. Even when the hose wasn't attached right and this one was filling up its bucket, I noticed that it filled its bucket about twice as fast as the smaller one did, even though the small one and the large one have about the same size of bucket. (It looks like I should've had 2 40-pint dehumidifiers down there all along, rather than 1 25-pint and 1 geriatric Kenmore something-or-other that kept icing over and that I finally replaced with this one.)
If you need quiet but lots of dehumidifying, I'd recommend going with Soleus' 40 pint or larger non-Energy Star CFM-line model. Those are unquestionably a LOT quieter - like I said, I can keep that one in the TV room and even forget it's there.
This Energy Star one is just as loud as my ancient Kenmore one was, though I like it much better than the old Kenmore due to the humidistat and the non-icing-over of this one.
If you're putting it in a room where you don't care about noise, but do like the Energy Star rating, go with this one.
The next time I get one, I'm going to get a 40 pint or 50 pint non-Energy Star quiet Soleus CFM model to replace the 25 pint one in the TV room. I'd like better humidity control, and whenever the bucket on the 20 pint one fills up, the 40 pint one can't handle keeping the humidity down to 50% by itself. It does keep it down to 55% or so, but it's got to be running all the time to do that. I'd prefer that there was the dehumidifying capacity for this one to live up to its Energy Star credentials and cycle off when it's not needed... if it's ever not needed, though I'm hoping summer through winter will have a better chance at that than the rainiest several months of the year have so far.
(My basement is about 800 square feet, and most online calculators tell me that I should only need 25 to 40 pint capacity, which is why I was so surprised to find that the 25 pint one wasn't even close to handling it and the 40 pint one has to struggle whenever the 25 pint one fills up, so I'm looking to have 2 40s down there eventually. Clearly, the online calculators are not meant for people whose houses are built on what used to be swampland and a creek bed.)
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 | William Barr FG01K 10.5 oz. Air Dehumidifier
Prefer Damp Check over Damp Rid -- 2009-08-16
I have used both Damp RID and Damp CHECK for the past five years. I put it in all of my closets, my bathroom and bedroom. Damp RID is "ok," but I greatly prefer Damp CHECK.
Damp RID's pellets are flakier and don't last as long as Damp CHECK.
The packaging isn't as good either. Damp RID's holes in the inner basket are smaller and harder to clean and don't hold up as well for refills. Damp CHECK's inner basket is very easy to clean and is durable. I have had my containers for five years now and keep refilling them. It's much cheaper to just purchase refills. My Damp RID containers only last me one or two uses.
Damp RID is designed for use without a lid so kids, animals, etc. can come in contact with the active ingredient. The Damp CHECK comes with a special "webbed" lid that keeps the product out of contact.
Damp CHECK is harder to find, but well worth it. I buy it direct and get free shipping. They have a great variety of products, including for your car.
The only exception to this is that Damp RID sells a closet hanger version that Damp CHECK doesn't have. This is the only Damp RID product I buy. I use Damp CHECK for the rest of my home, storage and auto.
"Out, Dampness, Out!" -- 2009-08-07
As the summer season veers toward autumn, and you are bound to start putting things in your basement or storeroom, you may want to invest in an inexpensive product that will take out the dampness in a fairly simple manner.
This product comes in various sizes and styles; the styles vary from a plastic container with a lid, to a see-through hanging bag to be hung high above any "little fingers", or yours, for that matter. Once the seal is opened on any of the products, you need to make sure the container or bag is in a place where it will not be tipped or troubled by anyone who might want to tamper with the contents.
Having used these products successfully, over the past 5 years, I have found this product to involve little work, both in setting up and clearing away, for another container to continue reducing the dampness in the basement or storeroom. It took about 10 weeks for the crystals to become liquid; once that process is completed, you can throw away the "see-through hanging bag" or the "plastic container with the lid", and set up a new container, and "Voila!" dampness lessens.
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