Dehumidifiers

What 491 owner reviews and the federal ENERGY STAR register say about the Midea Cube line, and which size fits a Florida home.

Florida has 826,019 manufactured homes. What makes them damp is the ducts and the bottom board, not the weather — and a dehumidifier only works after those are fixed.

Vented crawl spaces in humid climates run wetter than closed ones, not drier. What the code requires for a closed crawl space, which machines qualify, and why the flood rules and the moisture rules point in opposite directions.

The water in the tank is nearly distilled, so the food for microbes is the dust on the coil. What the research shows about growth rates, why the smell comes back within days, and where the manufacturers contradict each other on bleach.

Annual consumption across certified portable models runs from 105 to 530 kWh, median 340. What that costs at Florida rates, why the arithmetic differs from northern guides, and a calculator for your own numbers.

The drain port sits a couple of inches off the floor, which rules out the sink. What the Florida code allows, how the AC condensate tie-in fails, and why 8% of drainage reviews mention leaks.

Set it to 50%. The longer answer is why not 45 or 60, and why the 85% in the forecast has nothing to do with the number on the machine. Built on our NOAA station data for five Florida metros.

The same machine carries three different pint figures, taken at 65°F, 80°F and 95°F. This is where the federal test point came from, why manufacturers argued against it, and what the gap means in a house that sits at neither temperature.

Against 511 portable models, the federal registry holds 24 whole-home records. We went through all 24 field by field: eleven distinct specification sets, one machine under six names, and an annual energy column that contradicts itself.

We counted 1,100 reviews where the owner writes about a garage or a workshop. Noise complaints land at exactly the sample average, drainage comes up at twice the usual rate, and one Florida garage review in nine raises the garage door.