The unit does a great job reducing the humidity in my basement. My issue is the difficulty installing a drain hose. The is inadequate space for me to easily screw in the hose fitting. Since I could not achieve enough torque with the tip of my fingers, I tried using a channel lock to tighten the female end of the drain hose. Unfortunately I stripped the units house threads, resulting in the condensation not going through the hose, but dripping into the bucket. Which resulted in empty the bucket. I obtained a rubber water hose connector with a metal male hose fitting. That fixed my issue I inadvertently caused. A little more space for one’s fingers would be helpful.