Pro Breeze 30L/Day Smart Dehumidifier with Wifi App Control

Been using this for over 2 years in our holiday home to control damp over winter when we're not there. So far it's been 100% reliable and has helped reduce condensation issues significantly. It's quiet in use so easy to live with when operating.The only drawbacks are it's a big heavy unit though it is on wheels to make it easier to move. Doesn't help when lifting onto the bench to drain into sink though!The only other issue is emptying the tank is not as easy as it could be as due to the shape it tends to spill.

My bedroom suffers from mould and mildew in the winter as all the humidity seems to go into this one room. This also makes the room very cold.I had a smaller dehumidifier by probreeze and it works but the amount of water it takes in versus how much is coming back into the air via shower, wet clothes etc doesn't match up.Mould still grew on my walls and sometimes my clothes. I had been doing a lot of research and when I saw this, I thought why not as I needed a more powerful dehumidifier.The box is big and heavy so be warned about picking it up. Unpacking was simple and so was setting it up. Though there are many tapes outside, don't forget to pull out the tank as there are some pieces in there too.Setting up the app was fine, and works great. I love the fact you can turn it on and set up schedules and basically do everything virtually.The device looks like a big block of something but it's okay and the sound is slightly loud but tolerable.It has been switched on for about an hour, the unit had collected about 200ml of water which is amazing and the percent went from 85% to 50%.I can already feel that the air is dryer and the windows and walls seem dry which is amazing. The room isn't as a cold now too!All in all, I love the unit and think it is worth the price.UPDATE: It has been a week since I've used this. Within 12 hours the tank is full and I have pretty much ran this device twice a day and overnight so that the whole flat can be less humid. It is shocking how much water is collected. In the week, I would think over 12l has been collected so far. The rooms are warmer. There has been no sign of mould so far.I was told that it can prevent mould growing but not kill existing spores in the air. I had to ensure humidity was below 60% in order for them to die out. So let's see...

We discovered we have damp problems in some of the north facing parts of our home. Where furniture was close to walls, we found some mould had started. After a bit of research, one way of dealing with this situation is to lower the humidity in your home. I checked humidity around our house and in found in some locations it was very high.I wanted an all-home unit so I didn’t need to move it about or have to buy 2, but didn’t want to pay more than about £200, and began checking reviews. It wasn’t an easy search as it seems every single make and model had customers reporting problems and recommending something else. I found by following these recommendations you just end up in a circle of never finding anything suitable and eventually getting referred back to where you started.Reviews seemed to be better on the £300+ models and really high-end industrial ones, but even those have their fair share of people reporting issues. I don’t have the space for the really large units and I didn’t have time to mess about. I resigned myself to the fact that whatever I would buy it may have issues and just went with what best fitted me.I got a good impression of the Pro Breeze company, from YT videos and some of the customer reports of dealing with them. I also liked that some reviews spoke about them as a British based company, although I later found a small Made in China sticker on the back of my unit. British owned I guess, but I’m not even sure about that.I very nearly went with the Pro Breeze 20L model. I switched to getting this 30L model at the last second for a few reasons. One was that the price was almost the same. Another was a US YT video which recommended you only buy units rated above 25L. The final reason was I found out the 30L model was a much newer model of theirs compared to the 20L.I had previously read about leakage problems with the 20L and so (cross fingers) I gambled Pro Breeze would have learnt from this and sorted the leak issues on the newer model.I’m not using any of the app stuff, so I can’t comment on that. The unit works great as it is and I can control everything I want from the panel built-it. On its first day of use it gathered about 1L and I then shifted it around the house until I realised that placement made a big difference. The most I’ve got out of it was 3L in a day, but I’m only running it about 8-12Hrs a day, not constantly and not every day. I always just set it to auto, so it just keeps going until it thinks it is 50% and then stops.I purchased two humidity monitors at the same time and setup one at the top and bottom of our stairs. I check these daily and they are often quite different, with either the upstairs of down being the more humid. Sometimes by up to 20% difference.I’ve used this dehumidifier about a month now and I’ve kind of fallen into a routine of running it a couple days and then waiting until a monitor shows humidity on the high side, then moving the unit either up or down the stairs and running it for a couple of days. Humidity then tends to be fine for a while and couple of days later I may need to use it again. By doing things in this way I’ve managed to keep levels below low 60s around the house.What I like about it:+ I like how powerful it is and it gets lots of water out of the air.+ I like how the dehumidified air exits on one side, so you can for example set up on the landing and fire the dried air into a bedroom.+ I like the simple controls (this was a big part of buying it after seeing the demo on YT)+ It hasn’t leaked for me and the extraction of the drip tray is easy to do.What I didn’t like about it:- Wow is this thing heavy! If you are not a big bloke you may struggle to carry this up/down stairs.- It makes a lot of noise when in use. It is a combination of air con and an industrial fridge noise at the same time (well that is kind of what it is after all). You do get used to the sound after a while, but I wouldn’t run this near you when you are trying to sleep.- I knew this before buying, but the fan runs all the time it is on, even when it is ‘off’ because the room has reached its target humidity.On that fan issue, be careful of people warning you off units where the fan keeps running. There are different technologies in play between units and having the fan run all the time is not always an indication the manufacturer doesn’t know what they are doing and left it running by accident. I think it is something to do with preventing ice build up. Which may be the cause of leaks on models where the fan stops?I’m going to give this 4-stars. It does everything I expected it to do and I haven’t had any issue with it (yet). However, it is a lot noisier than I was expecting. I can put up with the noise for the results it achieves, but be aware of that trade off.

Excellent dehumidifier, works extremely well when connected to my phone (not tried it without.I have set schedules for the dehumidifier to come on and go off at different times throughout the day. It keeps my music room (which has a lot of very expensive pianos, guitars etc) at a constant 45% humidity, which is exactly what I bought it for.Really pleased with this purchase and I highly recommend it.

This is an excellent dehumidifier. It replaces an Ebac model which stopped working. I wasn’t sure if I was going to get on with this one as I have had Ebac machines for years & years, however I love it! It works really well & has made our house, which is an old single brick house, warmer. It isn’t the quietest dehumidifier out there, noisier than the Ebac, but very efficient. In the first 3 days of using it I had to empty the water container every day. The instructions are woeful, but there is a QR code which takes you to the instructions, unfortunately the QR took me to the WRONG instructions. The display was totally different to my machine. I had to go onto the manufacturers website, where I managed to work out which machine mine is & downloaded the correct instruction manual (such as it is). It has now been working for a few weeks & I am very pleased with it. The filter is easily cleaned & emptying the water container is also easy. At a great price too