Originally Posted by SkipW  The dehumidifier water sounds good in theory but it's going to have contaminates from your home air in it, plus maybe copper and other metals from the evaporator lines. If you google dehumidifier water you can find some good discussions on the subject. |
By "good" you mean "paranoid given the litigious nature of US society"?
Just how much "copper and other metals" do you think are coming off the evaporator lines? If you think it's significant then presumably a dehumidifier only lasts a few weeks before the pipes wear though? As for "contaminated from your home air", what the hell are you doing in your house that makes the air so bad?
Seriously though, the cleaner the water you can use the better, but let's not get paranoid about it. I wouldn't go paying for distilled or OS water if I had a dehumidifier.