Rant: I just realized I've been emptying my dehumidifier wrong for 2 years in my Lincoln Park basement

Moved into my place in Lincoln Park back in 2022. Basement gets musty every summer so I bought a dehumidifier. Been hauling that heavy bucket up the stairs and dumping it in the sink. Yesterday my buddy who's been here 10 years saw me doing it and goes "dude, just hook a garden hose to the back and run it to the floor drain." I didn't even know there was a hose port on this thing. Been making 20 trips a week for nothing. How did you all figure out stuff like this when you first moved to Chicago?

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troy83225d ago

Hooked mine to a floor drain too after I stumbled onto it in the manual one day. Those buckets got old real fast.

the_holly25d ago

...and hey, just a heads up, most manuals say to run the hose to a floor drain, but you still gotta check the lint trap after every load. The drain does the heavy lifting, but the trap will still fill up with fuzz, and if you forget about it, you'll end up with a soggy mess on your hands anyway. I learned that the annoying way after about a month of thinking I was done with buckets for good.