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Brita 42633 Faucet Filtration System Black Chrome




You can now get clear, refreshing Brita water right from your tap, and this convenient faucet filtration system features sleek chrome detailing to go with your kitchen d??cor. It works to eliminate 99% of lead and reduce chlorine, bad tastes and odors. It resists bacteria growth and reduces sediment and water hardness. The system is easily attached to your faucet with no tools necessary. The filter is easily replaced after 100 gallons or 4 months, whichever comes first. Switching from filtered to unfiltered water is easy as well. The electronic LED filter replacement indicator flashes red to let you know when the filter is ready to be replaced.Features Include:Fits on your faucetLED filter indicatorEliminates 99% of leadImproves taste and odorEasy to attach

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1 Star Problems
It started leaking after too short period of time. The same problem happened in my sister’s unit. You can patch it with a special tape but it takes quite a while. Low quality product.

1 Star What happened?
I bought one of these about 6 years ago. It worked well, never fell off. I could taste the difference in my water. The light stopped working, so I decided to buy a new one recently. What a waste of money! It has cheaper parts-the plastic adapter is ridiculous. I went to the hardware store and got a metal one. Now, instead of falling off three times a days it falls off once every three or four days. I will try to use it until the filter wears out and then buy something else. This filter is absolutely terrible. Unbelievable how much the quality has declined from six years ago.

1 Star Like the others say, a terrible product.
Despite it’s seemingly universal design, the included adapter won’t fit your sink and once installed it will work for a few minutes, giving you the glimmering illusion of future days of cups quickly filled with filtered water. But soon it will pry loose under the pressure, will start spewing and pouring water everywhere before falling off and breaking any dishes in your sink.

I’ve really, really struggled to make this work. Seriously. I wanted it to work. But ultimately a miserable product and $60 (incl extra filters) forever lost.

3 Stars why not INCLUDE the right adapters to begin with?
I bought a Brita faucet water filtration system. I struggled to installed it with the included plastic adapters, but it would pop off. So I called the Brita customer service(1-800-24-BRITA) and they said they would send me out the non-plastic faucet adapters and that should fix the problem. OK great…I get the nice metal adapters and I get it installed. Every so often it would pop off, we would reattach it until one day when it would not reattach. So I called Brita customer service(1-800-24-BRITA). They said the threads were probably stripped due to trying to install it with the plastic adapters which had come with the unit.They sent me out a whole new unit, with a new filter. Why not just include the nice metal adapters to begin with? Think of how many people give up on this product without calling customer service(1-800-24-BRITA)…not good for the brand name and bad for the landfills.

3 Stars falls off the faucet
Had good previous experience of this product in another home. Purchased this hoping for same quality. Product would not stay on faucet, even with included adapters. Would turn on faucet only to have Brita filter fall off and water go everywhere. Called Brita, who apparently is aware of this problem, said it happens all the time. They are sending new set of updated adapters free of charge. Hopefully this will correct the problem. If Brita Co. is aware of this situation and saying it’s very common, why is it not addressed in original package?

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    PUR FM 9400 3 Stage Horizontal Faucet Mount with Filter Chrome




    It’s our ultimate in water filtration. The 3 Stage Horizontal Faucet Mount reduces Heavy Metals (Lead and Mercury), Chlorine (taste and odor), Benzene, MTBE and TTHMs to provide clean, healthy, great tasting water. It also makes cooking with filtered water easy, and it’s easy to install.

    Product Details
    Pur 3-Stage Horizontal Faucet Mount Water Filtration System (FM-9400 Chrome)
    Starter System includes 1 Faucet Mount and 1 Filter. One filter provides up to 100 gallons (2 to 3 months) of crystal clean water. One Year Warranty.

    PRODUCT FEATURES
    • Our ultimate in filtration and a crisp, refreshing taste
    • Built-in Electronic Filter Life Indicator keeps track of your filter life
    • Conveniently provides up to 100 gallons (two to three months) of crystal clean water
    • Enjoy filtered or unfiltered water at the flip of a switch
    • Removes 99.9% Microbial Cysts (Cryptosporidium and Giardia)
    • Reduces 98% Lead
    • Also reduces Mercury, Chlorine (taste and odor) and more
    • Leaves beneficial fluoride in the water
    • PUR’s most advanced filter to improve the quality of drinking water
    • Can remove over 99% of Pharmaceuticals*
    • Easy Installation without Tools on Standard Faucets
    • Contents: 1 faucet mount and 1 filters

    * Based on manufacturer testing for reduction in levels of 12 pharmaceuticals. Pharmaceuticals may not be present in all users’ water. Pharmaceutical Reduction Not Certified by NSF International.

    Pur 3-Stage Horizontal Faucet Mount Water Filtration System (FM-9400 Chrome)

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      PUR QTSS Whirlpool Quarter Turn Refrigerator Ice and Water Filter Cartridge




      4396510, 4396548, 9010, 4396508, 4396547

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      4 Stars Good choice – good price
      I decided to try the Pur filter instead of the direct replacement because of cost. I am very pleased with the choice and plan to order the Pur filter again if it lasts as long as original equipment.

      5 Stars Will buy this again
      The BPur Qtss was recommended by the company as a replacement for original water filter. I can see no difference other than price.

      I would definitely purchase this again.

      5 Stars whirlpool 1/4 turn water purifier(filter)
      This is exactly like what I have purchased at the home improvement stores.

      This exact item costs from 10.00 to 12.00 more than what I paid at Amazon.

      Easy to install and makes the water in refrigerator terrific! Great Buy!

      5 Stars PUR QTSS Water filter
      I was very pleased when I received the Pur refrigerator water filter. It fit my Sears refrigerator perfectly. I will definately reorder when I need a new one.

      5 Stars Way cheaper than sears!
      I have purchased two of these filters for my Kenmore side by side refrigerator; so far and they have been great!

      You can really taste the difference between filtered and unfiltered water; The filtered water tastes just like bottled water!

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        Culligan FM 15RA Faucet Filter Replacement Cartridge




        Model No. FM15R replacement taste, odor, and sediment filter cartridge reduces 99% lead, 99.95% cryptosporidium and giardia cyst, chlorine, bad taste and odor, and sediment. Filter life up to 2 months or 200 gallon. Use with model No. FM 15 filter.

        User Ratings and Reviews

        4 Stars Great filter if you follow this little bit of advice…
        At first, I did experience what a few of the other reviewers mentioned: after a short while the filter didn’t appear to have any affect on the taste of the water.

        The problem, I discovered, is that if you run the water through the filter too quickly (by opening up the tap all the way) the charcoal filter just can’t do its job. As a rule of thumb, only allow enough flow through the filter so that it takes about 10-15 seconds to fill up a glass of water, and you’ll have great tasting water. So, if you have high water pressure, make sure you don’t open of the faucet all the way when filling a glass. There’s just no way a filter as small as this can do its job properly at the max flow rate of most faucets. You really need a large in-line filter for that.

        Note that this only applies to the filter’s odor and taste removal properties, because this involves a chemical reaction of sorts where activated charcoal pulls chlorine (and other chemical) out of the water by binding to them. This is a completely different mechanism than what you normally associate with filtering, such as particles being caught in a mesh (which is essentially how the rest of the filter works in these, and so it’s really only the odor and taste that is affected by the rate at which you let water through the Cullgan).

        5 Stars works perfectly fine
        This filter works just great. I always used Pur faucet filters, but if you have high water pressure, sooner or later, it will break up… This one, instead, has no problems at all and the water tastes exactly the same. Good deal for the price.

        The only flaw is a lack of an indicator that tells when it’s time to change it, but they send you a sticker to put on your calendar :) minimalist, but efficient.

        2 Stars Replacement cartridge leaks
        Looks like I was unlucky. These cartridges leaked when I put them on the faucet mount. The first replacement I was able to manage with some teflon plumbing tape but the second squirted water all around the sink. I plan to buy the whole unit again because it makes my water taste better. This is the only reason I would give it 2 stars. Surprisingly I dont see too many bad reviews or any that say that the replacement leaked. Wonder why.

        3 Stars FM-15RA inconsistent with FM-15R – please advise!
        Hi, perhaps someone can resolve my confusion.

        I also decided to add these photos for clarification to the guy who responded to me stating that he didn’t have what to compare the FM-15RA with:

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        I just purchased some FM-15RA replacement filters. In the past, I used to get the FM-15R models which were made in USA (not China like these newfangled 15RA ones).

        Anyway, in the past, I’d found that some of the FM-15R ones would gush (rather than flow), so I phoned Culligan in mid 2008, and after LOTS of hassle, reached a guy who actually knew something.

        He asked me to check whether any of the holes are black rather than white. He said that all the holes need to be white NOT black to filter well.

        Sure enough, the ones which gushed had some black holes, so he sent replacements which all had pure white at the holes.

        Anyway, now I received the ones made in China, which seem like junk, since they’re lighter weight than the USA ones. Note i still have the USA ones, so i could compare.

        Also, in the past, the USA ones did not emit what looks like vapor/smoke (probably the charcoal), upon screwing in & trying out for the first time. But the Chinese-made one DOES cause vapor/smoke (charcoal) to emit – which gives me the creeps, because it reminds me of when I erroneously poured Drano down the drain & it emitted similar vapor & hissed toxicly for a long time afterward to the extent that the clog-fixer-guy said it might have caused corrosion of pipes.

        But above all:

        I’m really baffled now, because these newfangled Chinese made FM-15-RA’s all have greyish-black at the holes, rather than white. Yet the one I just now tried is not gushing (despite the blackish holes). Rather, it’s flowing.

        This is inconsistent with what the Culligan guy had told me regarding the FM-15R. Because going according to him, these newfangled ones ought to be gushing since the holes are not pure white, but rather greyish black??!!

        So what am I to believe?

        5 Stars Good filter
        Despite the reviews mentioning problems with the PUR faucet filter, I purchased a PUR faucet filter from a local in-store retailer. I returned it because it wouldn’t thread onto my standard thread faucet… Next purchase was this Culligan filter. I can’t comment on taste comparison as the PUR was defective out of the box, but the Culligan is superior construction, a quality product. As other reviewers states, the flow is decreased when using the filter. I’m quite happy with this purchase. Good quality product at great price with fast, free shipping when including an extra filter with the order. Great prices for the replacement filters also.

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