ALORAIR LGR Commercial Dehumidifier with Pump Drain Hose, 180 Pint Large Capacity Crawl Space Dehumidifier for Water Damage Restoration, Basements Warehouse & Job Sites, 5 Years Limited Warranty, Red

Simply a workhorse
This is my second unit. The first worked thousands of hours over 5.5 years and kept the seasonally damp cellar of my 150 year old house extremely dry. Plug this in, run the drain hose into a drain, set desired humidity level and start it. No water buckets to empty. Just continuous monitoring and removing of cellar humidity.

Works great but…….
I use it in a 2000+ sq ft crawlspace that was poorly maintained by previous owner. Very wet and humid. Dried it out in a couple days and keeps it consistently at the desired humidity. I was very pleased for the first 9 months till the power went out for a week with lots of rain. The sump pump had no power and I got an inch of water in that section of the crawlspace which I didn’t expect when I placed the unit. Thats when I found out the motherboard is at the very bottom of the unit which is NOT SEALED so it fried when the power came back on. The fuse didnt protect it. Thats a disappointing design for a unit that is used in wet environments. Warranty doesn’t cover that. The good news is a replacement is available and not too difficult for someone with moderate repair skills to install. I originally gave 5 stars since I love the unit but dropped to 4 because of this. It is just lazy design to put the motherboard at the bottom and not to seal the bottom of the unit. I’m an engineer by the way.One other minor problem is the menu shows wifi features which it doesnt have. Took several failed attempts to figure out you have to buy separately. They should delete that menu item on units without wifi. Its confusing as hell.

Keeps Humidity at 50% WITHOUT FULL ENCAPSULATION in my CRAWLSPACE !!
I have a crawl space about 1500 square feet and 10 standard wall vents to outside and my humidity was reading 87 to 94% in N. Georgia area…. I have plastic on the floor over gravel and not taped and 4 cement block pillars and cement walls on 3 sides and wood with brick exterior on one side. I did NOT want to encapsulate the area for the EXPENSE needed…. I closed the vents (sliding plastic) and not air tight….and I installed this dehumidifier ALORAIR Commercial Dehumidifier with Pump Drain Hose, 180 Pint Large Capacity Crawl Space) and the humidity went down from 87 % to 70% in 2 days and down to 50% in 4 days!! It has kept it there and runs about 1/2 the time since. I attached the plastic tubing into a pipe that runs outside from my home air conditioner by drilling a 1/4″ hole and just pushing the tubing into the hole about 8 inches…. I do not know how long it will work but I am thrilled that the moldy smell and high humidity is no longer there and accomplished with 1) plastic on entire floor of crawl space (not taped down and no wall or column coverage with plastic), 2) closed the sliding vents (ten of them), 3) and installing the ALOAIR commercial Emergency Dehumidifier with 110V and pumped outside discharge of the water….I am thrilled ! I just hope it continues to run…It is larger than I expected about 2 feet long by 18 inches tall by 16 inches wide but I just sat it on a stable table and plugged it in and ran drain tube into a hole made in a PVC pipe and my humidity went from 87% average to stable at 50% as set on the machine….Photos: show 87% at start and now 48% with dehumidifier running, the blue shows the inlet and output on the dehumidifier now when running… the dehumidifier sitting on a small wooden table about 3 feet from an outside wall with the 110 V input from the wall (15 foot cord I think) and the coiled 1/4 inch 19 foot tubing that runs into a hole I drilled into my 1 inch AC drain that runs outside and I shoved the tubing into the hole about 8 inches and installation took less that 30 minutes and now I have a 47% humidity in my crawls space with really no problem except needing to wash the reusable filter once a month to keep it clean. I am thrilled with this purchase and all (WITHOUT THE EXPENSE AND HASSLE OF TOTAL ENCAPSULATION THAT ALL THE MAJOR BASEMENT AND CRAWL SPACE EXPERTS WANT TO SELL YOU WHEN YOU LOOK ONLINE FOR HELP ….. JUST THOUGHT SOME OF YOU MAY WANT TO TRY THIS FIRST BEFORE YOU ENCAPSULATE AT $10 – 15,000.00 COST!! IT IS WORKING FOR MEUpdate 11-16-22. Still running fine and not constantly. Keeping humidity to 50% or below. All with NO ENCAPSULATION! Just covering vents (closing them) and setting dehumidifier to 50% and running water to outside via gravity.. happy with the purchase