Best Dehumidifiers for Hose

it fired right up and is working well, i'm using it with a hose draining into a floor drain.

the hose hook-up for having it drain directly into a slop sink and not having to empty the water pan every couple of days is great.

if you want to use the unit continuously, you can attach a garden hose to an outlet on the unit and it will constantly drain and will run without interruption.

it's apparently sufficient to do the job, so i can only complain a little.internal connection for attaching a utility hose for external draining to sump drain -- provides little room for fingers to

the instructions say to connect a garden hose to the dehumidifier for continuous draining, but i did something a little different.

i had to empty the bucket every morning, so i would recommend hooking up the garden hose to a drain and let it run.

i don't have a good spot to hook a hose up to it, so i choose to empty the bucket daily instead.

unless you use the hose connection to drain it, you have to manually drain

however i use it in the basement where noise is not a problem plus i hooked optional hose directly into basement drain.

it doesn't come with a hose so you have to prepare that yourself.

then we ran a hose to the sump and it has been runiing almost contiuously since then with no problems.

only negatives are that it's loud (which i believe all dehumidifiers are) and that to have it continuously drain via a hose the unit must be higher than the drain (so we have it on a table draining

i've only just installed this dehumidifier but wanted to correct a previous review in one small way: once you punch out the plastic disk to insert a hose for external drainage, you needn't drain it

i will use the self drainable feature as soon as i purchase a hose for it, as constant emptying of the dehumidifier is becoming tedious.

keep in mind that 40 pints means it can remove that much h2o in a day; you'll have to empty the pan all too often; i use a hose-to-drain now.

i will probably adapt it to a hose for continuous drain, but it has made an amazing change in my basement.

we are using the drain hose and after looking at the directions and looking at the materials we figured out how to connect it.

hose drain connect has a cap that can be replaced.

strengths: mechanical controls-will restart automatically after power outage, energy star rating, bucket in front weaknesses: will have small amount of water in bucket even when connected to a

cons: a bit loud even on the low fan setting; the included 3-ft drain hose is short and there is no easy way to hook up to a garden hose - you pretty much have to place the unit right next to the