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who makes a good dehumidifier? N8N 07-15-2008
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Posted by N8N on July 15, 2008, 5:08 pm
Subject says all... need a dehumidifier, preferably quiet and with low
temp operability. After searching on Amazon, I can't find a single
brand that I feel confident purchasing. Probably the one with the
least negative reviews was Frigidaire and I'll be returning one of
those this afternoon because it doesn't work properly and Frigidaire
apparently doesn't have real customer service personnel, only an
annoying automated answering system.

is there *anything* that doesn't suck? Anything at all? All I see
are comments like "I had this for two weeks and it died" "loud, rattly
POS" "doesn't really have a deice feature, just shuts off until the
ice melts" yadda yadda yadda.

nate

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Posted by Tom G on July 15, 2008, 7:55 pm

> Subject says all... need a dehumidifier, preferably quiet and with low
> temp operability. After searching on Amazon, I can't find a single
> brand that I feel confident purchasing. Probably the one with the
> least negative reviews was Frigidaire and I'll be returning one of
> those this afternoon because it doesn't work properly and Frigidaire
> apparently doesn't have real customer service personnel, only an
> annoying automated answering system.
>
> is there *anything* that doesn't suck? Anything at all? All I see
> are comments like "I had this for two weeks and it died" "loud, rattly
> POS" "doesn't really have a deice feature, just shuts off until the
> ice melts" yadda yadda yadda.
>
> nate

Whirlpool used to (up to 6yrs ago or so) to make an excellent dehumdifier
and Sears brand was made by Whirlpool until about 3 or 4 years ago. I was
working at Sears when they switched to a Chinese made unit instead of the
Whirlpool. Price stayed the same but quality went down the tubes. Not too
many of the Chinese units didn't get returned with a month or so. You might
check to see if Whirlpool still makes their own units stateside...may be
still a good unit.

Tom G.



Posted by ransley on July 15, 2008, 8:02 pm
>
>
> > Subject says all... need a dehumidifier, preferably quiet and with low
> > temp operability. =A0After searching on Amazon, I can't find a single
> > brand that I feel confident purchasing. =A0Probably the one with the
> > least negative reviews was Frigidaire and I'll be returning one of
> > those this afternoon because it doesn't work properly and Frigidaire
> > apparently doesn't have real customer service personnel, only an
> > annoying automated answering system.
>
> > is there *anything* that doesn't suck? =A0Anything at all? =A0All I see
> > are comments like "I had this for two weeks and it died" "loud, rattly
> > POS" "doesn't really have a deice feature, just shuts off until the
> > ice melts" yadda yadda yadda.
>
> > nate
>
> Whirlpool used to (up to 6yrs ago or so) to make an excellent dehumdifier
> and Sears brand was made by Whirlpool until about 3 or 4 years ago. =A0I =
was
> working at Sears when they switched to a Chinese made unit instead of the
> Whirlpool. =A0Price stayed the same but quality went down the tubes. =A0N=
ot too
> many of the Chinese units didn't get returned with a month or so. =A0You =
might
> check to see if Whirlpool still makes their own units stateside...may be
> still a good unit.
>
> Tom G.

About 5 yrs ago I bought a sears, it was fine, following year I bought
a second sears it was junk and I returned it. They are all made in
china, so how can anyone know if any are good.

Posted by Ron on July 15, 2008, 8:40 pm
> Subject says all... need a dehumidifier, preferably quiet and with low
> temp operability. =A0After searching on Amazon, I can't find a single
> brand that I feel confident purchasing. =A0Probably the one with the
> least negative reviews was Frigidaire and I'll be returning one of
> those this afternoon because it doesn't work properly and Frigidaire
> apparently doesn't have real customer service personnel, only an
> annoying automated answering system.
>
> is there *anything* that doesn't suck? =A0Anything at all? =A0All I see
> are comments like "I had this for two weeks and it died" "loud, rattly
> POS" "doesn't really have a deice feature, just shuts off until the
> ice melts" yadda yadda yadda.
>
> nate

How about Soleus?

It seems to have good reviews.

http://www.consumersearch.com/www/house_and_home/dehumidifier-reviews/

Posted by Nate Nagel on July 15, 2008, 9:41 pm
Ron wrote:
>
>>Subject says all... need a dehumidifier, preferably quiet and with low
>>temp operability. After searching on Amazon, I can't find a single
>>brand that I feel confident purchasing. Probably the one with the
>>least negative reviews was Frigidaire and I'll be returning one of
>>those this afternoon because it doesn't work properly and Frigidaire
>>apparently doesn't have real customer service personnel, only an
>>annoying automated answering system.
>>
>>is there *anything* that doesn't suck? Anything at all? All I see
>>are comments like "I had this for two weeks and it died" "loud, rattly
>>POS" "doesn't really have a deice feature, just shuts off until the
>>ice melts" yadda yadda yadda.
>>
>>nate
>
>
> How about Soleus?
>
> It seems to have good reviews.
>
> http://www.consumersearch.com/www/house_and_home/dehumidifier-reviews/

I've never heard of that brand before... which I guess is why I'm
posting. I've heard of, say, Whirlpool, Frigidaire, DeLonghi, etc. and
they all seem to get consistently slagged.

I'll check 'em out.

nate

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