Dehumidifier recommendations?

[sailorgray]

Anyone have one they would recommend. It's for our basement.  Thanks!!

[Deleted]

We have one in our unfinished basement from HD, but I can't really recommend it. It does it's job, but in our basement, it's just a losing battle. The thing has water accumulation all the time during rainy season. I just came in to warn you that running it half on/half off for us costs $100 a month in electricity (on top of the regular bill). If it was running all the time, I'm guessing that it would be a $200 increase. It wasn't worth it to me for an unfinished space that stayed wet anyway! Not sure what you're dealing with though.

[kaylie]

I asked this sometime last year and Fox said she'd had a good experience with Fridgidaire. I got the 60pt one from Walmart and it's great. It's not too loud and even though it runs around the clock it hasn't made a huge ding in our electric bill (maybe $15 a month?). We have a pretty large open finished basement and it's made a huge difference.

[bunnymendelbaum]

I did a blog post about our 2:
www.86nit.com/2011/08/dehumidifier.html

long story short: We had an LG. Liked it.
Got the Frigidaire FAD504DUD 50 Pt. Dehumidifier off of amazon for $168.54 with free shipping.

[FoxInFiji]

Jan 26, 2013 13:12:00 GMT -5 kaylie said:

I asked this sometime last year and Fox said she'd had a good experience with Fridgidaire. I got the 60pt one from Walmart and it's great. It's not too loud and even though it runs around the clock it hasn't made a huge ding in our electric bill (maybe $15 a month?). We have a pretty large open finished basement and it's made a huge difference.

Yes we love our Frigidaire!  Sailor where are you that you're already dealing with humidity in January?!  I'm jealous. 

[sailorgray]

Jan 26, 2013 21:25:27 GMT -5 FoxInFiji said:

Jan 26, 2013 13:12:00 GMT -5 kaylie said:

I asked this sometime last year and Fox said she'd had a good experience with Fridgidaire. I got the 60pt one from Walmart and it's great. It's not too loud and even though it runs around the clock it hasn't made a huge ding in our electric bill (maybe $15 a month?). We have a pretty large open finished basement and it's made a huge difference.

Yes we love our Frigidaire!  Sailor where are you that you're already dealing with humidity in January?!  I'm jealous. 

Fox, I am outside of Philly. Is it weird that it's humid down there? Should I be worried about something. Our b-ment is unfinished, but cold. We use 1/2 as a playroom and the other half as storage and laundry - nothing fancy. There's a half-bath there, too. We've never had water there unless you count the humidity.  We had a dehumidifier and it did the job, but it broke. They don't last long, huh?

Thanks everyone for the suggestions!