| Management number | 238484517 | Release Date | 2026/07/11 | List Price | US$87.99 | Model Number | 238484517 | ||
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<p>We bought our first house in August. By September, the basement smelled like a wet dog we didn't own.</p> <p>I tried everything. Box fans. Open windows. A tiny dehumidifier from the hardware store that filled up every four hours and did absolutely nothing. My wife started talking about mold remediation costs. My son refused to go down there.</p> <p>Then a contractor friend came over, took one sniff, and said, "You're not dealing with dampness. You're dealing with a swimming pool in your air. You need a machine that pulls 120 pints a day."</p> <p>He was right. Our basement plus crawl space plus the humidity creeping up into the living room—we needed coverage for over 6,000 square feet. We needed the Waykar 120-pint dehumidifier for basement and whole-home use.</p> <p>The numbers sold me first: 120 pints max at peak humidity, 35 pints under the DOE standard, and coverage up to 6,500 square feet. That's not a bedroom dehumidifier. That's a whole-house solution.</p> <p>But the real magic? I connected the continuous drain hose—39 inches long, gravity-fed, no pump needed—to the basement floor drain. That was three months ago. I haven't emptied a bucket since.</p> <p>And it runs so quietly I often forget the machine is there. My old unit rattled like a window AC. This one hums softly in the corner, pulling gallons of water out of the air while we sleep, while we work, while we finally use the basement as an actual room instead of a damp storage cave.</p> <p>The Energy Star certification means our power bill didn't double. The auto defrost saved us when temperatures dropped below 45°F in November. The child lock keeps my curious preschooler from changing the settings, and the humidity sensor adjusts itself—I set the target and stopped thinking about it.</p> <p>Two weeks after we installed it, my wife went downstairs barefoot. She stood on the carpet. She looked around. Then she said the words I'd been waiting to hear since we moved in: "We should put the guest room down here."</p> <p>That's the power of actually removing the moisture—not masking it, not blowing it around, but pulling it out of the air, pint by pint, until your basement just feels like another room in the house.</p> <p>The Waykar CHWA120B comes with the drain hose, a clear instruction manual, and a 1-year warranty. It uses R32 eco-friendly refrigerant, draws 340 watts at normal conditions, and plugs into a standard 115V outlet. At just 33 pounds with a compact footprint (9.25 x 13.19 x 19.69 inches), it's portable enough to move where you need it.</p> <p>If you're done with the smell, the damp carpets, and the room nobody uses, this is the machine that changed it for us. Maybe it'll do the same for you.</p>
| Coverage area | 6500 sq ft |
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| Pints of moisture removed per day | 120 pt |
| Decibel rating | 44 dB |
| Volume capacity | 1.06 gal |
| Weight | 31.55 lb |
| Features | Energy Efficient, Automatic Defrost Control, Adjustable Humidistat, Automatic Shut-Off, Bucket Full Indicator, Variable Speed |
| Brand | Waykar |
| Maximum air volume | 106 CFM |
| Minimum indoor temperature | 41 ºF |
| Speeds | 3 |
| Dimensions | 13.58 x 10.04 x 20.28 in |
| Volts | 110 V |
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