Cube 35 Pint Dehumidifier for Basement and Rooms at Home for up to 3,500 Sq. Ft., Smart Control, Compatible with Alexa (White), Drain Hose Included

I bought mine based upon Consumer Reports’ praise for these and reviews here and I haven’t been disappointed. You really couldn’t ask for a better dehumidifier. I recommend this thing to people all the time. It’s quite compact but holds way more water than most dehumidifiers twice it’s size. It’s pretty quiet for what it is. It’s very effective. Got a dank mildewy basement apartment well under control in just a few days and kept it that way. Brought a 1200 square foot apartment from 65+% humidity down to 35% in just under 4 days of running around the the clock and the mildew smell was 90% gone. Only had to empty the bucket once a day and the app tells you how full the bucket is at anytime and even estimates when it will be 100% full. It switches itself off when it’s full obviously. It even has a spigot like thing on the bottom so you can connect a hose for continuous draining if needed. It’s also quite reasonable on electricity use *for a dehumidifier*. Bear in mind, dehumidifiers do use a lot of electricity if you run them all the time. Think small window air conditioner, not box fan (in terms of electricity use) and you have the idea. Really the only suggestion I could make as an improvement would be to add caster wheels to the bottom and perhaps a retractable power cord like some vacuums have. Oh, and it even has an app to control it which works via Wi-Fi. So you could literally turn it on or off when you’re at a friends house or work if you want to. You can also set it to maintain a certain humidity automatically. NOTE: It does NOT have wheels, but it does have sturdy handles. If you can lift 25 lbs off the floor with one hand, you’ll have no trouble carting it around or emptying the bucket. I would say that an elderly person or a child under 13 or so might struggle a bit to lift the the unit and move it around or lift the bucket when it’s full though. If you plan to move it around a lot, you could put it on a sturdy, low profile platform with wheels. If the weight is an issue, just empty the bucket when it’s half-full and you’ll probably make do just fine. Bear in mind, you do need to lift the entire unit UP and OFF of the bucket it sits upon in order to empty it. If lifting 20-25 lbs with one arm isn’t an issue for you — then you’ve found your dehumidifier, your search is over. It’s a well-engineered and well-built unit that’s worth every penny. Buy this or one of the similar smaller or larger cube-shaped Midea units and I’m confident you’ll be pleased with the results.

I've used the Midea Cube 35 pint dehumidifier for 3 summer seasons. Pros: - Removes moisture from a large basement room well - Relatively (compared with other dehumidifiers I've owned) quiet - This was an important purchase consideration - Humidistat is accurate - Remembers all settings when power is removed - 4 settings to control the maximum volume of water in bucket - Fairly compact - Unique design collapses to about 1/2 height for storage. - Not an advantage for me, but may be for others - Easy user interface Cons: - Lifting the dehumidifier off of the bucket may be difficult for some due to the weight - At the bucket's max water volume setting, lifting the bucket to empty it may be difficult for some due to the weight - Midea thought ahead and added the limit feature, of course this means it needs to be emptied more often - Removing the air filters for cleaning is more difficult than it should be I use this dehumidifier on a Hubitat smart home outlet switch to control when it operates. I'm pleased all of the dehumidifier settings are retained when power is removed; this is also an advantage if your power goes out occasionally. Longevity of dehumidifiers has not been very good lately, so we'll see how long this one lasts...

After reading a stellar review on WireCutter, I purchased the Midea 20 point cube 3 days ago and it may be the worst significant purchase I have ever made. It's very clear the humidity sensor is about 35+ points off accurate. So, when turned on with the humidity at 70% in the room, it thinks it is about 35% and runs a few minutes and then shuts off even if you set the level to 35% as it thinks it is DONE. Meanwhile the humidity in the house is still 65-70%. I checked the humidity against three different hydrometers to make sure they all agree with how off the humidity sensor was on the dehumidifier as it was shocking. They all agreed that the dehumidifier was WAY OFF and all were aligned within a single digits. The only way to get it to work is to put it on Continual or Maximum as on automatic it runs for 5 minutes and thinks it is done. So basically it's useless unless you run it continually which renders the App useless. I noticed others on Amazon reviews (which i wish I had scanned more carefully before purchasing) had similar issues with the humidity sensor being broken from the get go. Others issues not brought up in the Wirecutter review were that when you take the humidifier off of the bucket it drips water. Lots of water. So when you want to empty the bucket you basically need to set up thick towels to put the unit on and they will get soaked. Who wants to do that? A huge miss in the review. They did focus on the weight which is another issue, but the water drip mess is even worse. Astoundingly, the unit also warms the room up. Yes, the dehumidifier that while running on the only way to work Continual or Max mode (due to the humidity sensor for Auto broken upon arrival) puts off enough heat to Raise the room temperature by many degrees and it basically acts like a heater instead of a cooler. . I couldn't believe it was signifigantly warming a cool basement, but saw other reviewers noticed the same thing! Others have said it's impossible to empty the bucket without water spilling everywhere due to the cumbersome cube design. I absolutely need to return this thing immediately. Their Midea online support was of no help whatsoever and absolutely insulting to the consumer. Nothing we can do, Go see Amazon was basically their answer.

Works great in my living room, within 30 min it can drop the humidity by 5% and if I keep it running it reduces it by 10-20%. It’s about as loud as a microwave, not too bad. I was not able to get the app to work with my cube and the functions are kind of confusing to use and the instructions provided do not help much. Overall I would say it was easy to setup and improves the air quality of my home.

So far so good! I’ve had my dehumidifier for about two months and it has worked beautifully. The humidity levels in our Florida home were regularly above 60% and this keeps them in the 40s. I love the larger storage tank and I find I only have to empty it every two or 2 1/2 days. The one thing I would warn, is because the tank has a larger capacity, when it’s full of water it can be heavy. I’m almost 60 years old and able to roll it to our back patio and then lift it to dump it. But 10 years from now, it might be too heavy for me. We’ll see. The nice thing is you can control the amount of water the tank stores before the unit automatically shuts off, so if it’s too heavy for you, you could always put it on the lowest storage setting. I found that the unit was easy to assemble and easy to operate. I do recommend it.

•Best dehumidifier I have ever owned and I have had many different brands. I own two of these dehumidifiers. I was so impressed with the first one I bought another. •Great Performance •Well Made •Durable •User Friendly •Great Value •Nice Features •WiFi Compatible (control & monitor with smartphone) I highly recommend this dehumidifier.

I bought two of these to try to knock down the ~67% winter humidity in my Florida house, which sits next to the water. This can occur for a month or so where the temps drop but outdoor humidity remains in the 80%+ range. I can't run the A/C because it's already mid 60's indoors, so I thought let's try dehumidifiers. I set one up on each side of the house and set the HVAC to just run recirculate for ten minutes of each hour. Within six hours both units had pulled over a gallon of water each out of the air and dropped the house humidity almost 10%. By morning the house was down to 50% humidity, towels in the bathrooms were already dry where normally a shower would leave them damp until the next afternoon, it felt so much better. I've found a spot for one where it can continuous drain into a utility sink, but the other has such a massive bucket that it won't require emptying probably more than once a week now that the initial knock-down has been completed. Keep in mind that bucket size. If you do let it fill completely, you're talking about 40+ pounds of water. Fortunately the console and the phone app both allow you to configure it to do a high water shut off far earlier than the physical bucket becoming full, if you want to stop it at 25%, 50%, 75% for weight reasons. It defaults to the lowest setting, so if you plug the thing in without further configuration, it's going to auto shut off at maybe ten pounds of water, far earlier than it would have to if you do want it to fill the bucket. They are loud, have no doubt about that. These are large dehumidifiers designed to tackle thousands of square feet, so they have a large compressor and evaporator grid, and a large fan to pull a lot of air through. Even in low mode they put out a good bit of noise. It's not an annoying noise though; I slept fine with one of them fifteen feet from me in the same room, but those sensitive to any amount of elevated volume may not like it even if it does sound like white noise. The base comes with casters in case you want to wheel them around a hard floor; may make it easy to wheel one over to a step-in shower for emptying if you don't want to lug 40 pounds of water by the handle.

I started setting up the Midea Cube 50 pint dehumidifier with pump a few days ago. Since then, I've spent over 1 1/2 hours with Midea reps trying to get the pump to work. The written pump instructions are incomplete, incorrect, and misleading, and don’t allow you to set up the pump so it will work. (Note that my one-star rating is only because of the pump, my reason for buying this unit). The second Midea rep (Kiarra) acknowledged that the written instructions are wrong (specifically, 2nd bullet point under “pump draining”, which applies only to continuous drain mode where no pump is needed). Besides that, the diagram for the pump indicator is wrong (pump indicator is actually on the bottom left of LED display); the instruction booklet’s diagram of the instruction panel doesn't show important words "(pump 3s)" underneath the "Fill Level" button. Furthermore, the need to hold the “Fill Level” button for 3 seconds to make the pump work is not mentioned anywhere in the written instructions. After putting me on hold, Kiarra had me try that – and then I noticed the wording. Holding down the “Fill Level” button for 3 seconds didn’t cause the pump image to appear. The written instructions said to hold the up and down arrow buttons for three seconds to activate the pump. I had tried that several times, including a couple of times with the first Midea rep and more times with Kiarra. While still in the chat, I decided to try something else, just on a whim. I unplugged the unit, waited a minute, plugged it back, and then pressed three buttons at the same time – the two up and down arrows and the “Fill Level” buttons. The pump image appeared. I thought my problems were solved and that the pump would now work. I asked Kiarra to tell the other Midea customer service reps about this. I told her I thought it was unfair of Midea to give its reps incomplete/wrong instructions because it made their jobs harder. It wasn’t a happy ending, though. The fact that the pump image appeared did not mean that the pump was working. I even left the unit running all night, hoping that maybe the pump would work if it were submerged in water. But it didn’t. So I dumped out the couple of gallons of water that had collected overnight and am letting it dry to return it. I really wanted the Midea Cube 50 pint dehumidifier with pump to work. I have another Midea dehumidifier with a bucket and it’s been great. I wanted a dehumidifier with a pump so I didn’t have to keep emptying the bucket. I was counting on Midea quality and am quite disappointed that the pump on the Midea cube model with pump simply doesn’t work I didn’t want to have to return the unit. It’s heavy to handle (over 40 lbs.) and getting it back in the box isn’t going to be easy. Rats!