On 7/5/2018 10:50 PM, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Thu, 5 Jul 2018 17:54:57 -0000 (UTC), Wayne
Boatwright wrote:

On Thu 05 Jul 2018 10:14:02a, Buddy told us...

replying to bubba, Buddy wrote:
You are wrong. Modern day, commodity (Sams Club, Wallmart, etc)
dehumidifiers leak their coolant routinely, lasting only two
years. Compare to dehumidifiers your grandparents had in the
basement lasting 10 - 20 years.


The best dehumidifiers are very well waterproofed, as well as
connecting a drainage hose. There is virtually no leakage with those
that are built with a direct drain, as oppposed to those that have a
drain connection coming from the reservoir.

A friend of mine had a house that also had a sump with a pump because
of a high water table. The house was more than 30 years old and had
the original dehumidifier with a drainage hose feeding directly into
the sump. When they sold the house along with the old still working
dehumidifier.

This isn't about dehumids, which I don't have, buit about refrigerators,
which I've heard also break quickly these days. I went away for 3 days
not noticing the door to the fridge was ajar, so it ran the entire 3
days. I get back, it's raining inside the fridge, the paper mache egg
carton is soaked. I shut the door and it's working fine and still is a
week later.

I also ran it for a couple weeks with no fan on the condenser, and also
with no fan between the fridge and freezer. Alll the plastic is in good
shape, only the main gasket is cracking on the outside edge only.

This is a Kenmore, 39 years old.


The only problem is it uses way more power than a newer one. I replaced
mine when I saw one on freecycle that was new enough to be significantly
more efficient. Turned out it had a much colder freezer than my old one too.