Treating High Humidity in basement

What do you mean a room De-humidifier is not poular and hard to get in U.S.? You can get them at any Home Depot, Lowes, Sears, Hardware stores......I have one in my current house, the house I bought has one and many friends have them, we have a drain hose hooked up to ours so you dont need to drain the pan.
Yhis a popular and easy to get solution, Semi's take on this puzzles me.

Thank you all for your responses. Not having time during the week due to work and a long commute, I have been checking here and other places to see what should be the best way to tackle this issue. First off, I bought a Value Home dehumdifier, 20L/15 hours is the rating. Well after plugging it in for only 70 minutes last night, the room went from 67% to 60%....and the machine is actually quiet. I also turned off the floor heat entirely, and opened the windows this morning to air it out. So I guess I have a process so to speak to exchange air manually, by opening the windows to allow the stale air out and using the dehumidifier once in a while when the levels start getting high. The device draws 450 watts in use. About the same as both of my tube amps in an idle state. I think this will be my solution for a while. Thanks all.

Thanks,
Audioquest4life

there is a company in new york which makes a product called humidex, look for it online. It's power consumption is less than a night light and you could install it yourself.
Good Luck

If you own your home it's worth cerfing the net for more info. I just redid the entire exterior drainage for my 45 yr old home, not that we ever had the slightest problem, but I've witnessed how moisture problems can lead to horrifying destruction in our damp, coastal environment.

Hi Audioquest4life, I just thought of a question; since you have floor heat, is there any provision for return air. In houses with forced air heat, there are return air vents. When the forced air pressurizes the room, air flows out through the return air vents resulting in a circulation that I would assume lowers the ambient humidity. However, I am not familiar with how exactly the floor heat works, and what provisions are made for air circulation and humidity control. When you say you moved into a "new" house, is that a newly constructed house, or one that is new to you? If newly constructed, I would expect a modern system with some provision for humidity control, so you could contact the builder to discuss the issue. If it is an established house, but new to you, you should consider calling a residential HVAC contractor with a good reputation and see what they say. Let us know how it is going.