Review Details

Santa Fe Compact70 Dehumidifier

Product Review (submitted on July 8, 2015):

We bought a house that has a 1400 finished basement which has multiple rooms. This space had a typical residential dehumidifier that not working. There was a damp mild musty smell to it which the prior owners addressed with a plug in air freshener. I wanted a commercial quality dehumidifier that would fit in a fairly small space that was near the plumbing out flow pipe so the water hose from the dehumidifier could be run directly to it. We did internet based research and found several brands of dehumidifiers that appeared to be of exceptional quality, but none that fit the physical demensions that I needed. We are extremely please with the operation of this unit Setup and operation is simple. Within an hour the water hose was starting to fill up and in 3-4 days the humidity was at +/- 48% . The fan motor is pretty quiet. I think that because there is a rotary dial instead if a digital readout to set the humidity level, some tweaking is and was needed in order to find the correct setting for the space that the unit will be placed in, but that was not a big deal and the tech support was very helpful in this regard. Its very important to make sure that the height of the discharge nipple be sufficently higher then the opposite end of the hose in order that the gravity discharge feature to work well. We have had this unit for only 1 month and that is the reason that I give it 4 instead of 5 stars. Time will tell. I expect that for the price, that this dehumidifier will give us many years of excellent service.