Midea 4,500 Sq. Ft. Dehumidifier With Pump Included, 50 Pint - Ideal For Basements, Large & Medium Sized Rooms, And Bathrooms (White)

This dehumidifier absolutely slaps — and I say that as someone who lives in a region where the humidity doesn’t just make you sweat, it mocks you while doing it.The Midea 22-pint unit is compact, efficient, and clearly has a personal vendetta against moisture. I run it daily in a mid-sized bedroom and it pulls water like it’s auditioning for a job in plumbing. You’ll empty the tank and immediately wonder how your walls haven’t grown gills.But let me issue a gentle PSA:This thing runs hot. Not “oh it’s a little warm near the vent” hot — I’m talking “am I roasting a Cornish hen under this?” levels of thermal output. If you’ve got a small room, especially one that’s already warm, just know you’re trading moisture for ambient heat. Plan your airflow accordingly or prepare to enter the Toasty Zone.Another tip: the built-in sensor does the job, but it’s very much a local reading. As in, “I’m doing great right here next to me” — even while the rest of the room still feels like a Florida swamp sauna. If you're serious about full-room monitoring, pair this with a secondary RH sensor placed farther away. You’ll get a much better picture of how your microclimate is really behaving.Still, even with those caveats? It’s absolutely excellent.✅ Removes moisture quickly and efficiently✅ Quiet enough not to disrupt your daily life✅ Easy to clean, easy to move✅ Doesn’t look like a haunted relic from a 2004 utility closetI’ve run this thing for weeks, and despite the space heater vibes, I wouldn’t trade it for anything. My windows no longer fog. My sheets no longer feel like they’ve been slow-cooked. My plants are confused, but I’m thriving.Highly recommended — just don’t put it next to your bed unless you enjoy waking up in a desert.

Outstanding dehumidifier. Previous to this dehumidifier, I needed to use 2 dehumidifiers for the space and even with 2 dehumidifiers running it was difficult to keep my basement dry enough to store books. This dehumidifier works perfectly and has been maintaining the basement humidity level at 39-40% without the aid of a second dehumidifier. One note of caution: I originally thought the dehumidifier was defective because I could not get it to drain via a hose. I called customer support and was told that they do not provide support for dehumidifiers and that I should return it to Amazon as defective. After thinking about the problem I wondered if the cause of nondraining via the hose was because the angle of the hose was not enough. So I raised the dehumidifier off the floor by 2 inches (placed the dehumidifier on 2 paving stones) and that solved the problem. If you can't get it to drain via the hose connection, try raising it off the floor. A second note is this: The wifi app (SmartHome) is a very limited app and I found it useless. (I also had trouble finding the button I needed to press to activate the wifi on the dehumidifier; on this model you need to press and hold the Filter button to activate the dehumidifier's wifi.) I ended up removing the app from my mobile. I would suggest ignoring the wifi capabilities.

Works very well, Wi-Fi capable and app is a bonus definitely worth having. Only drawback is a little bit noisy, but not too bad. I would definitely recommend this if you want a good dehumidifier.

If you have issues with humidity, don’t even add it to your cart, just hit buy now. There is no question that this was the right purchase for our needs and has gone way beyond what I could have hoped for.I live in a humid area and I would assume that I’m just physically acclimated to high levels of humidity, so I didn’t realize that it was a problem until I needed to control it in my grow tent in the basement. My basement is partially finished and while the grow area is in the unfinished area, our basement has never felt thick or had any musty smell, it’s just like the upstairs in terms of air quality. We do have a TON of windows upstairs, most of which need replaced, along with a high ceiling and skylights, so temperature control has been a problem in some areas of the house. However, replacing 19 windows of multiple different sizes, is going to be quite costly. So I bought a pack of 8 little humidity/temp meters and I realized that the humidity in the house was 60% at the lowest and up to 87% in others, and my new clones that were starting to flower needed 45-55%, I started to scramble. First we tried baking soda until I could get another solution. This was as if I had spit into the wind, but somehow it made me feel like I was doing something. Then came the hanging bags. Did they collect water? Sure. Not very quickly, but I’d hang 5 bags in the tent and it would be several days before I took them out because they were half full, but it didn’t seem to be collecting any more. The humidity didn’t budge more than a couple of percentages now, but it seemed to maintain high 60’s, so I needed something else. At this point the plants were still doing well, but we maintained a steady flow of air to try to avoid any mold. I bought a different dehumidifier that was supposed to cover something like a 1,500 sq/ft area. $70. I only needed to decrease the humidity in a 4x4 tent and it had decent reviews, so I gave it a shot. This was in the tent and moved around several times over about 3 weeks, and the small water reservoir didn’t fill up once, it was just giving me about 100-200 mLs/day. I don’t know what to expect otherwise, so I let it continue for awhile, but in that time the humidity would only drop below 60% when the lights were on. So I bought a box of 24 water collecting bucket type things that had fantastic reviews, and set a bunch out to try to help the dehumidifier. Nothing. But there was significantly more of the little white pebbles than there had been in the bags, so I thought that it was just going to take longer to make its way down to the water reservoir, but nah. Absolutely useless and a massive waste of money. I’m getting very close to harvest and I’m starting to panic. All of this time and work and money, only to screw up in the drying phase. So I read several articles and reviews about the best type to look for and the tips that I saw over and over. One being to get one with a pump. I’ll be honest, I had the general idea, but I just took the advice blindly and didn’t care why I needed it. The other main one was to get one that’s supposed to cover at least double the square footage of the space that you want. I’m thinking the basement, which is about 800 sq/ft. But that’s what I was thinking with the first one and it failed me, so let’s go bigger. Let’s try double the entire house, this way I know for certain that it’s doing what I need it to. Think buying a riding lawnmower for your 100 sq/ft lawn. Yeah baby. The unit is supposed to cover 4,500 sq/ft and between the 3 levels (basement, main, 1/2 story) there’s about 2,100 sq/ft, however, it was going to be in the very back corner of the basement in a walled off area, so I wasn’t hoping for much beyond that area, because to me the humidity isn’t noticeable. I’m going to make it very clear that I only care about my plants, lol. There’s a rich looking chick that left a video of her emptying the water reservoir, and that water Just. Kept. Coming. Absolutely huge reservoir and this lady and several others, said that they empty this beast several times a day. So you’re telling me you live on a beach and never close the windows? Geez, no way would that be me, and I was starting to have an intense distrust of the damn reviews. But for some reason, the rich blonde chick really stuck in my mind, and I decided to give it a go. This unit is large. It’s about the size of a window air conditioner, but sits on the floor. It was a little heavy to get it out of the box, but once it’s upright, it’s on wheels. There wasn’t any assembly per say, you just have to pop the cord holder on. Super easy to use, just plug it into an appropriate outlet, hit start, and you’re up and running. Problem solved almost instantly guys. We had just started upping the water and flushing the plants, so the humidity in that area had risen to 87% when I started it. Spending the money on this was an act of desperation and it has paid off BIG time. I had plugged it in and started it around 3am and when my SO got home at around 2pm, the machine was off and the reservoir full. I still haven’t set up the app, so after I do that I can actually keep track of how quickly it fills up, but what we’ve experienced so far is dumping the reservoir about 3 times a day, which would likely be more frequently if I paid more attention to it, and once we decide to set it up with the pump option, we won’t have to worry about it shutting off, it will flip to the pump automatically and drain elsewhere. At this point though, we’ve actually had to turn the unit off during the day sometimes because the humidity is virtually sucked out of the air completely, like when they sucked the air out of Druidia with a giant vacuum cleaner in Space Balls. We are maintaining around 45% before we turn it off for a few hours because that’s as low as we want to go for the plants. The unexpected result is that the rest of the house has also benefited significantly despite the unit being back in a basement corner, quietly pumping away. We are in a massive heat wave right now, and my house feels better than it has in probably ever. I’ve been using it for 1 1/2 weeks so far, so hopefully it lasts for a couple of years. I also love that it has a washable filter because lord knows I don’t need another expensive filter to buy. Anyway, 5 stars, 10 times over. Don’t hesitate, it’s just what you need.