Life expectancy of home dehumidifiers is known to be pretty poor for most brands. We have to have a dehumidifier in our basement which we run probably eight months out of the year. My solution to this problem is to purchase a unit at Walmart.com and buy their optional product care plan. Cost to purchase the plan is about $46 for 4 years. We just had a Frigidaire unit fail in the last week of the coverage and it will be replaced with a Walmart card for the full price we paid for it. I have ordered another one just like it and will have to pay for a slight price increase, tax and the $46 product care plan. I think the total cost to me will be about $90. Cheap enough for that length of service. It works for me.

I have a Walmart Haier that has been working the past 3 years {knock on wood}.

In Maui we had an LG from Home Depot that worked fine for a couple of years before we moved.

Believe it or not, I have a LG LD651EBL that has performed perfectly for over 8+ years. I did have to change the fan motor (which locked up) but otherwise it has done a great job.

I have a Kenmore that runs in my shop anytime the weather is over 50*. So 6 or 7 months a year. It is a hand me down and probably every bit of 15 years old. Runs just fine, probably uses 5x the electricity of today’s models.

I have had two of the Frigidaire's and they last about three or four years. I assume the Freon leaks out. I should have got the extended warranty.

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Originally posted by 41:
I have had two of the Frigidaire's and they last about three or four years. I assume the Freon leaks out. I should have got the extended warranty.

Wait - Freon? Why would that be in a dehumidifier? Mine is heating the air rather than cooling it.

Well, I guess an a/c is technically a dehumidifier too but most of us looking just to remove moisture don’t go that far.

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Originally posted by Georgeair:

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Originally posted by 41:
I have had two of the Frigidaire's and they last about three or four years. I assume the Freon leaks out. I should have got the extended warranty.

Wait - Freon? Why would that be in a dehumidifier? Mine is heating the air rather than cooling it.

Well, I guess an a/c is technically a dehumidifier too but most of us looking just to remove moisture don’t go that far.

Not sure if serious?

All a dehumidifier is, is a small air conditioner the cold side condenses moisture out of the air, and the warm side is removing heat from the refrigerant. Not usually freon these days. Some more ozone friendly mix.

All dehumidifiers, as far as I know, refrigerate air. Moisture condenses (is removed) from the air that way, reducing humidity. Of course, all refrigeration does is remove heat, so one side of a refrigeration unit emits heat, the other cold.

I have a "Danby 25 pint dehumidifier DDR2506" that has been running a lot since 2008 with nothing going bad. I got a good price on a backup 3 years ago thinking that these things only last for @5 years at most and the little Danby was overdue. I live in a wet area and this thing is stretched as it's in a 900 sq foot basement. I love it.

I bought the cheapest 70pt I could find off of Amazon in 2017 with the warranty for my basement. It runs continuously from March - Nov every year since I got it and now issues. I figure warranty will replace or just buy another one if it makes past the 4 yr warranty mark. It will have paid for itself IMHO.

When we built our house 2 years ago I put a Santa Fe from Sylvane in our crawlspace and hard plumbed it in. So far so good.

www.sylvane.com/dehumidifiers.html