Midea 1,500 Sq. Ft. Energy Star Certified Dehumidifier With Reusable Air Filter 22 Pint - Ideal For Basements, Large & Medium Sized Rooms, And Bathrooms (White)

So far, the dehumidifier has been great! I have a 1200 square foot finished basement, and its help keep the moisture levels right where I want them. The smart app integration makes it great to check on the dehumidifier when I am out of the house. Would buy again!

It seems like I only ever live in old houses with no ventilation in the bathrooms 🤦‍♀️ and now I live in an old house with no ventilation in the bathroom AND my basement floods anytime it rains🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️Anyways, this has always been my go to product for dehumidifiers. It works great, I run it most of the day and it doesn’t hike up my electricity bill too much, it’s quiet (I actually love the white noise it makes), and is overall really great quality.If I had to say any cons it’d literally just be the size. I ended up buying a larger scale one and I struggle finding a “cute” place to put it with my air purifier and a/c haha

Quick read: Attractive, quiet, large bucket, nice control panel, some very minor assembly. Air flow is side discharge and angled slightly downward towards the floor. You can point the stream of dehumidified air in the direction you want it to go by turning the machine but there are no vertical air adjustments. Uses R410A refrigerant and not R32 for some reason. Easy access to evaporator coil for cleaning. Humidistat is very accurate on my sample. This machine uses a measured 390 to 400 watts. At my summer rates of 0.1154 cents a kilowatt, if it ran 24 hours a day for 30 days, with the compressor always engaged it would cost $33.23 a month to run. I use it an hour a day so for me it's $1.38 a month. Overall it feels well made. I'd buy it again. Will it last? I don't know. The reliability of these things has been in a steep decline since the 1990's. This is now the only consumer purchase I will buy the warranty for.Details: This is my fifth dehumidifier and I like it the most. Compressor was noisy on the first start up for the first couple of hours then there were no rattles, buzzing or weird noises. Just the steady whoosh of air without any variations in pitch. Noise is a pretty subjective subject. The quality of the sound is so steady and smooth I quickly tune it out. The gentle thud of the compressor kicking in and out is barley detectable. My sound comments are based with the machine on a carpeted floor. It's a little louder on tile. Attractive and feels well made. Very large bucket. I like the control panel, it offers lots of flexibility. In the Comfort mode it will try to maintain a 50% humidity level. I can also set it to run continuously. Or set it to run continuously with the timer. The timer is two stage. If the machine is running I can set it for when I want it to stop. Plus I have the option of also setting it for when I want it to restart again. If the machine is off, the timer can be set to turn it on with the option of also setting it to turn itself off again. The last run option is to put the humidistat in control of the dehumidifier and it will cycle on and off based on the set point. A word about humidistat control. When the desired humidity level is reached, the compressor kicks off and the blower continues to run for an additional 3 minutes, (drying out the evaporator coil). Drying out the evaporator coil puts humidity back into the air. Enough humidity that in a small room it (plus the detected moisture in the machine) will force the dehumidifier to restart a couple of minutes later. It then becomes this endless start, stop cycle. Very annoying. I use a small fan blowing on the humidistat (top right corner of air filter area at the edge of evaporator coil) to stop the humidistat from being triggered by the moisture in the dehumidifier. Comfort comments. This machine raises my bedroom temperature about 2 degrees an hour, (pleasing in the winter, annoying in the summer). All 5 of my past dehumidifiers would give us pretty nasty headaches if the blower was facing us. This thing is a bit overpowered for a bedroom (11x12) but it's the quietest in the series. Both the larger 50 pint and the smaller 20 pint are noisier (based on Midea documentation). The larger 50 pint is substantially more efficient than this but it's way too much for a small room. That would be my choice for a basement. I am OCD about keeping evaporator coils clean to keep the units efficient and hoping to discourage mold growth. This is the first dehumidifier I've ever owned that gives you easy access to the evaporator coil without having to take the thing apart. Yay! I still put a foam air conditioning filter on top of the built in filter out of habit and sealed up some air leaks under the machine. The extra filter does make it slightly more vulnerable to icing up with the slightly reduced airflow. Kwik Kut 15”x24” foam filters are available at my local Ace Hardware stores for $1.99.I love this thing. The only two things I would change would be for Midea to figure out a way to stop all the false restarts from internally detected moisture. The other being a timer modification to allow for endless restarts and shut downs. I want to be able to set it for any continuous timed value I wanted. Like being able to set if for 30 minutes on and then 30 minutes off, until the water tank is full. That was a common function in the 1990's on Goldstar brand dehumidifiers.UPDATE: 5/3/21 Measured power consumption is up to 419 watts.UPDATE: 5/15/22. Not very effective once temperatures fall into the upper 60’s. If you wanted it for a basement I’d pick something else.

I’ve been using it non-stop for over a year now, and it’s been keeping my basement bone-dry. It’s done a great job, and there’ve been no issues so far.My only complaint is that the water bucket is awkwardly shaped, so it’s difficult to clean without a long-armed scrubbing brush.

Update 3/20/21: Still working like new. House is a bit more comfortable and smells a bit better, though there could be other factors in that as someone else is no longer living here. The filter comes on based on a timer, but I haven't even really noticed much in the way of debris, and, in the cooler months, it's run a bit less. It doesn't run up the bills as far as we can tell, so hey.--Haven't even had this a month yet, so expect periodic updates of this review, either because something went awry, or to just let you know it's still going fine.No real problems with this unit-- a couple things I did note is that if it's not PERFECTLY level, you might hear a bit more noise. Our floors have had damage, so I'm doing the best I can, and it seems fine, but there is a slight difference. There's also a slight amount of heat that it blows out. I didn't notice it much at first, but it just seems normal-- no bad smells, no questionable or increasing heat, either. You can hear it dripping sometimes, and overall the noise is noticeable on any mode-- obviously better on comfort without turbo-- but it's not really problematic unless it's on turbo and in the same room. If you like white noise, I don't think it'll bother you, but if you're trying to watch TV or have a conversation, it might be grating.The unit is a bit heavy, but the wheels are like magic. It is REALLY easy to move around. And since you should only be using it on a level surface, it seems fine to me to not include brakes on them. There's also a safety feature when you dump the water, so you don't immediately restart the unit. The instructions say that the feature makes sure it has three minutes to cool down, but I'll also note that if you unplug the unit, that bypasses the safety feature. I'm not recommending you do that-- I found out by accident when I was trying to prevent it from beeping.Slightly annoying feature-- every time you empty the bucket, it's gonna beep at you. Several times. Extra times, just to be clear. If you need to dump water in the middle of the night like I do, and someone's sleeping, you can get around this by unplugging it. It does beep when you power it back one though. Mind the three-minute cooldown, between dumping the water and restarting it, okay?All that said, this thing borders on unbelievable in removing water from the air. I live in a warm, humid location, and even indoors, the 0.8 gallon tank refilled in less than five hours. It's intense. The auto shutoff works perfectly, and I haven't even had any trouble with drips or anything. The bucket is fairly easy to remove, but may be heavy for the elderly or if you have any spinal or other health issues-- however, the weight isn't very much at all, maybe 6-7 pounds when full. We did get a hose to use it with, but haven't hooked that up yet, still just sticking to the bucket. No issues with freezing/needing to defrost.I wasn't able to adjust the humidity in 5% increments-- not sure why, since the +/- buttons work, but I haven't bothered to read through the manual to see if there's some other mystery trick to it besides hitting the buttons while it's off of comfort mode. I usually leave it on that mode. You can also activate turbo mode whether it's on comfort or continuous. I was able to use the timer function, but I won't need to use that in the future-- just tested it.Overall, I'm pretty pleased with this dehumidifier, with the most important thing being that it really does suck a loooot of water out of the air in a relatively short amount of time. I'll update this review periodically, either to reflect a problem that's come up or to declare a lack thereof.

This is amazing! It sucked out so much water in the basement and now it smells so nice and fresh! Plus the whole house seems to be lower humidity because of this too! The only thing is that we have to empty it everyday but one day we’ll get a sump pump in the basement to help with this.

Working great. Using it in a 8x20 cargo container. Keeps humidity down to the % u want.