Customer Reviews

Kenmore 70 pint Dehumidifier w/Electronic Touch Controls

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I have a four-year-old version of this product. It needed service on the refrigeration unit after two years, and needs it again. Why? The evaporator tubes are aluminum, the tube supports are steel. This creates a galvanic cell which corrodes both metals, eventually eating holes in the tubes and letting the freon escape. If they claim the problem no longer exists, make them take the unit apart and show you a magnet won't stick to the tube supports.

I have a version of this, the 54501. It is very, very loud. Also, I have never been able to get the hose and tube to stay connected so that the water will flow into the basement drain. So I'm emptying the bucket constantly. Which brings me to the reason I gave it a couple of stars - it *does* suck a lot of water out of the air. Next time I buy a dehumidifier, it won't be a Kenmore.

The compressor is not merely loud, it's loud and irritating. It's irritating when it runs in the basement and we're upstairs with the door closed.

We leveled it carefully and it's still far too loud.

It needs a higher quality compressor and a higher quality mount.

We're returning it.

About four years ago, we bought a Kenmore Dehumidifier from our local Sears store. To be completely honest, it was not this model. The cost was almost the same as this model and, perhaps, this was the model which replaced the model we bought.

In any case, we bought the dehumidifier to control the humidity in a room where my wife stores a collection of antique dolls, Well, initially this thing would drain buckets of water out of the air on the lowest setting. It was amazing. However, it seemed to run about the same amount of time and drain the same amount of water from the air no matter what the setting. Then it stopped working altogether, no matter what the setting. Then it started working again. When it was working, off and on, it would significantly raise the temperature in the room. All in all, our attempt to control the humidity of the room would have to be considered an almost complete failure. But, in discovering this, we found the Kenmore Dehumidifier to be a marginal, poorly working appliance.

I repeat, our model is not the same as the one offered here. But, if you're thinking of buying an updated Kenmore Dehumidifier, look over the reviews of this new model and pay careful attention to the negative and troublesome comments. Quite frankly, we would not buy another Kenmore Dehumidifier, no matter what the model.

Gary Peterson

Mine died after four years, the previous one, another make, lasted 20 years. A sad product for Kenmore, perhaps it should be known as a Knomore.