Frigidaire Dehumidifier, High Humidity 50 Pint Capacity

My husband and I recently bought a new house that happened to be built in the 1940's. Lots of things were done differently back then and some things were not invented or commonly used yet, such as a vapor barrier for the foundation. As a result the partially finished basement felt gross. Despite being the coldest place in the house, the way your skin would almost feel wet just walking down there made it uninhabitable. I had never had a dehumidifier, but I thought this must be what they are for and did a ton of research to land on this model. The rooms in nearly the whole basement felt completely different after even a day and after a few days it was completely comfortable to hang out in. I was planning on using the basement for my office and I was worried that I wouldn't be able to use it, but this Dehumidifier not only fixed the office itself but even the larger den area outside the room. Pros: - Pulls an unimaginable amount of moisture out of the air, it honestly astonishes me how much water ends up in the bucket. - Works for a surprisingly large amount of space (Nearly the entire basement for me) - Design looks pleasing to the eye - Easy UI and setup Cons: - Relatively loud - Creates a lot of heat, my basement is no longer the coolest part of the house(worth it to me) - While being able to hook up a hose is convenient, it will not drain into a utility sink. I am fairly sure it just isn't able to force it up the hose and just uses gravity. If you have a floor drain for it to go into this would not be a problem though. All in all, I am very happy with my purchase and glad it solved my problem so quickly!

For as long as I've owned a home I've bought Frigidaire dehumidifiers. The units are NOT built to last. The codes are always the same. Fatal. F0 (Freeze Out) or EC (Evaporator Coil / Sealed System). It appears to be a two-year ritual to search my mail for emails to electrolux.com and to re-familiarize myself and start a warranty claim... which I am once again in the process of doing. This time however I am writing this review. When you receive a new unit it works exactly as expected. Hail the power of condensing water from air! Positive reviewers rejoice! It works its magic and all summer long you reap the rewards of a drier, less humid environment. Then comes winter. The unit is stored, either powered on but sitting idle or fully powered off, eager for the next summer/fall blast of humidity and a call to action. ... except - next summer it no longer works. It's starting to get humid here in the Northeast and that is when I need this unit to work. It doesn't. It powers on. It runs the blower. You can even perhaps hear the compressor churn. Condensation. Nope. Pull the bucket. Bone dry. Eventually the unit cries foul and throws the F0 / EC code. FAD704DWD (2014) - F0 FAD704DWD (2016) via RMA spring 2016 - F0 -- lasted that summer FFAD7033R1 (2017) - EC FFAD7033R1 (2019) via RMA summer 2019 (5 year sealed system warrant on 2017 purchase) - EC FFAD5033W1 (2022) via RMA summer 2022 (a month short of 5 year sealed system warranty on 2017 purchase) - EC FFAD5033W1 (2022) - separate purchase May 2022 - still running for now, now outside the 1 YR standard warranty A part of me wonders if these units are simply designed with planned obsolescence in mind. Why build a unit that lasts one to two seasons? in the Northeast you generally would purchase one of these when humidity rises (late spring/summer) and you get a few months use then pack it up for winter with the expectation when you need it next it works. So aside from the possibility of seeing if Frigidaire / Electrolux will replace the FFAD7033W1 (2022) that was newly manufactured December 2021 and only lasted the 2022 summer season... I do not believe my dollars are best spent on this brand any longer. To Frigidaire's credit, the 5 year sealed system warranty is good and the RMA replacement process is usually painless. Fill a form. Get approved. Unit shows up at your doorstep. The problem is, the replacement process shouldn't be so painless in a way. It's like they've gotten really good at shipping replacements. REALLY good. ... I'd rather have the unit last 5 years and get a sense I got my money's worth than the hassle of a humid basement for a couple of weeks during the replacement process. EDIT: So today I contacted Frigidaire by phone. It was not a good experience. I explained to them I had a FFAD5033W1 manufactured December 2021, bought May 2022 and put into service last summer for only a few months. It has been off all winter; no need. It of course is now June 2023. The first time I needed it was this month. It is returning EC code after repeated power cycles. Warranty Claim DENIED. They no longer have a 5 year sealed system warranty. The unit now has a single 1 year warranty from the date of purchase. I wonder why that is ... </sarcasm> The unit is 18 months old from its date of manufacture... bought and ran for at most 3 months last year and is now dead. EDIT: September 2023. The FFAD5033W1 purchased May 2022 is now returning EC code constantly. The unit is in pristine condition in a clean area and ran daily during the summer. In a room with ~60% RH and 70 degree room temperatures it has reached its end. This unit lasted essentially two summers and that's it. I see Amazon touts "sold 1K units last month". I'm sure they did and Frigidaire loves you for it. While their reputation precedes here, folks are soon going to find out their money is well spent elsewhere. NEVER will I buy anything Frigidaire again.

Great dehumidifier! After reading reviews and ratings, I decided to buy this oversized capacity unit for the lower level den. This took humidity levels from 63% down to 45% in the matter of 2 hours max! The only have 2 down sides: 1) is that you can’t set this for a 24 hour cycle. When the unit is off the timer turns it on per the timer setting. When running the timer turns the unit off per the timer setting. Since I’m in the den every day not a huge deal but this is not good if set in an unoccupied location unless you run it constantly. 2) in the percentage mode the unit cycles every nine minutes no matter what the actual humidity level in the room is. It would be better if it could sense the humidity while off and only turn on when the actual humidity reaches the set level. This unit is so efficient that I would recommend it even with the couple of issues described above. I am very pleased with the efficiency with which it lowered the levels in the room. Update: original unit stopped dehumidifying after about five weeks of operation. Replacement arrived in about ten days, absolutely no hassle. This new unit functions better, addressing my point No. 2, humidity percentage level set and unit shuts off when level is reached and then restarts when the level exceeds the setting.

The unit does a satisfactory job dehumidifying but, as other reviews have noted, has a high probability of failure. I purchased the unit in June of 2021 and it failed with code "EC" in September of 2021. The replacement process was fairly straightforward but was not as easy as it should have been. A new unit was shipped directly to me in October of 2021. The unit ran fine throughout the winter (Michigan winter where humidity is relatively low already). In late spring and early summer of 2022, I began to notice that the replacement unit had some icing on the coils but it was still performing adequately. In July of 2022, the replacement unit again had the "EC" error code. I have contacted customer support but the 1-year limited warranty applies to the purchased unit and does not reset for the replacement unit. At this time, I am waiting to see what, if anything, Frigidaire will do beyond offering an Extended Service Agreement (not that I would trust them to actually honor any such agreement). I would NOT recommend this product to anyone at this time. Update: Electrolux/Frigidaire declined to provide any further assistance since the warranty for the original unit had expired. The unit is faulty and will likely fail within 1-2 years. The quality of the product and their customer service is underwhelming considering the price of the dehumidifier. I would recommend nearly any other dehumidifier before this unit. To summarize the timeline: 6/7/21 - Original unit was purchased from Amazon 10/5/21 - Original warranty claim was filed with Electrolux due to the failure of the unit with code "EC" 10/16/21 - Replacement Dehumidifier arrived from Electrolux Mid-July 2022 - Replacement unit begins having "EC" error codes 8/2/2022 - Contacted Electrolux support who indicated that I should submit a warranty claim again since the replacement unit was within its warranty range since it had been delivered in October of 2021. Submitted the warranty paperwork accordingly. 8/9/2022 - Electrolux indicated that the unit is out of warranty and thanked me with no further recommendation or explanation (See email below). Good Afternoon We are sorry to inform you that based on your original purchase date of 6/7/21 you are no longer eligible for a warranty claim. Thank you

We've had another dehumidifier for many years. It seemed to work fine and did what it was supposed to do in our basement but wasn't quiet and we noticed increases in electric consumption during the seasons ti was in use. One day a service technician was in inspecting a water control system in our basement. He looked at the old dehumidifier, said, "Hmmm...", pulled out his phone and looked up a recall article for that particular model. It seems it had been recalled by the company as a potential fire hazard. He sent me a link for the article and recommended we stop using it; he had the same model in his home. After reading through the recall I contacted the company as directed and was instructed to "get on a list until it was determined how the recall was going to be handled." At that point we decided it was time to buy a replacement! We did lots of research and felt this was the brand and model to get. Low and behold there was even one available via Amazon Warehouse that was new-in-box but the top of the box was slightly damaged. Sold! It arrived in good time, was in the original box, and works perfectly. We're very happy with it. It is much quieter, efficient, and though we haven't noticed the effect on the electric bill yet, it seems like it'll have to be an improvement because it's running for shorter time. We're happy with it and have recommended it to friends and family.

I share a house with my sister, I live down in the basement and we had a big storm that dumped a lot of water and well of course the sump pump went out causing flooding in my sanctuary. After the clean up I was dealing with 86% humidity, I bought this right afterwards and it was the best purchase. This is an older home and the basement only has a few outlets so I bought an air conditioning extension cord and I have had no problems. It is pretty heavy so getting it out of the box by myself was a slight struggle but other then that it is easy to move from room to room with the wheels. I use the bucket option and there is a handle which helps you carry it to the sink or toilet. as stated in the description it does hold 50 pints or about 6 gallons of water. I will say sometimes when removing the bucket water does dribble down from the machine, I shut it down leave alone for a few mins then dump the bucket I think this allows whatever moisture is still in the machine to go down. Noise level its not super loud but there is still puts off a air conditioning type sound, where you need to turn the TV or speakers up to drown it out, but its not annoying and I have slept through it with no issues. Overall worth the price and good machine.

Takes a ton of water out of the air. Not sure if our basement is really humid but we are emtying a full tank daily. Doesn't even last 24 hours. The tank looks like it holds a couple of gallons. Not really sure what the "50L" designation is all about but it doesn't hold anywhere that much. Kinda wondering if I shouldn't have bought one with more capacity. Glad I didn't buy the pump option. The tank weighs about 25 pounds, so if that's not too much for you, it seems like way less hassle to pop it out and dump it in the shower or outside than to hook up a hose. Tank fills right to the top and it does slosh a bit as you're carrying it. You definitely don't want to roll the unit when it's full. It will leave a trail of water. The unit itself doesn't roll that well. Might be that the wheels are too small. Glad I didn't get the one with an app. Seems pointless. Definitely not quiet. Overall does what it's supposed to do.

Three years ago I purchased two of these units to use in a new construction home; one for the basement and one for the second floor (recommended for the humidity inherent in new construction). I live in the New England where ambient humidity is only a problem for 4-5 months in the summer. Otherwise, the units do not run even with the extra humidity typically present in new construction. One of the units I owned quit working in just under 2 years & Frigidaire denied any warranty coverage as it was beyond the one-year warranty period. Thinking I might have just been unlucky with the one that died, I purchased another. Approximately a year later the replacement unit stopped working (yielding the same "EC" error code that the first unit had and which my research suggested was a malfunction that cannot be repaired). For a few weeks I tried re-booting the unit which worked for a short period of time but then the error code would return and the unit would stop working. Finally, I contacted Frigidaire again but got the same answer; no warranty coverage because I called a month after the warranty expiration, notwithstanding that the unit had actually died, either before or within days of the warranty expiration. My mistake for not checking the purchase date the minute the unit died but, surprising as it may be, my life doesn't revolve around warranty issues on appliances that should last a whole lot longer than one year. Functionally, the units worked well enough, typically keeping the rooms comfortable with the typical noise level of a dehumidifier (similar to a window air conditioner). However, these particular units simply do not last and Frigidaire's idea of "customer service" is to politely refuse any claim of product defect not communicated to them within the one-year warranty period.