that's what I had to do to read the top to see how to open it...lol..

depending on the size of your room, you may want either a bigger one or maybe another one of these...it's keeping it 55-60% during the day..not climbing to 75-80 like it had done a few days so it's doing something. However, if you have a bigger space you may want more dehumidifieing power..it's absorbing all the water it can out of the air though, it works. I think it'll take a trial run at your house to see how effective it is given your conditions. The outside humidity here has been nuts..air conditioner isn't ran here until the end of may or so though, so the humidity in the house is that of outside...that's playing against me a lot there too..