Spent $80 on a dehumidifier for my basement last spring and it saved my drywall big time

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...and here I am spending $80 on a dehumidifier while my husband spent $200 on a fancy one that barely fits in the corner of the laundry room. Mine's just a basic white box that looks like it escaped from a 1990s kitchen appliance catalog, but hey, it's been running nonstop since June and my drywall's still in one piece. Guess sometimes the ugly workhorse beats the pretty show pony, right?

knight.mason1mo ago

Heard someone say the ugly ones usually last longer cause they got no fancy electronics to break.

valh328d ago

Ha, I gotta push back a little on that. I see where you're coming from with the whole "ugly workhorse" thing, but I've actually had the opposite luck. My cheap little dehumidifier died after one summer, just stopped pulling water altogether. Meanwhile @knight.mason's point about fancy electronics is fair, but sometimes those basic ones are built so cheap there's nothing to keep running either. The real trick is just knowing what you're actually fighting in your space. Your basement or laundry room might be dry enough that the cheap one does the job fine, but a lot of folks end up buying two or three of those before they finally get one that works. Would you say your house is pretty well sealed up or do you get a lot of moisture coming in from outside?