We bought the Frigidaire FDL50S1 Dehumidifier in an emergency situation. The massive amounts of rain that we got this year in Chicago caused our basement to flood. We had put drain tiles into the basement the year before, but water flowed over them into our only carpeted room. It was a lot of rain (12 inches in two days), our sump pump was running for about 5 days straight after the rain stopped! We thankfully already had a wet vac, so we were able to suck up a good bit of the water, but the carpet was still really wet.
After two days, the basement started to take on that moldy, damp smell. I...