Brita 42202 Ultra Faucet Filter, with Pitcher
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Brita 42202 Ultra Faucet Filter, with Pitcher
Customer Review: A good temporary solution to filtering your drinking water
Summary: 3 Stars
Our heavily chlorinated water doesn't taste good for drinking or making coffee and tea. So we filter our water. We started with the Brita filter pitcher. But this is inconvenient--you constantly need to fill up the pitcher and it takes up space in the fridge. We plan to put in a real system one of these days (under the sink) but at the prices plumbers charge, this project is on hold for a while.
We bought one to use while in temporary quarters, then moved it into our new house.
The plus side:
1. Water tastes good. Makes coffee taste better.
2. The cost is reasonable.
3. Installation is ... easy.
4. Filtered water is on demand.
5. It can be moved from house to summer vacation cabin.
The minus side:
1. They leak after a while
2. If you forget to push it out of the way and turn on the hot water, you ruin the filter. (oops.)
3. It sits on your sink faucet looking a bit ungainly--if you have a particularly stylish kitchen.
Not a bad interim solution to filtration, but ultimately I wanted a more permanent system.
Customer Review: BRITA SINK FILTER, JULY 2002
Summary: 2 Stars
MY EXPERIENCE HAS BEEN ABOUT THE SAME AS 2 OTHER REVIEWERS, WORKED GREAT AT FIRST , NOT EVEN A YEAR, AND THEN AS THE UNIT LEANS AWAY FROM THE FAUCETT? THE LEAK STARTS TO INCREASE.ITS USELESS. THE PROBLEM LIES IN THE RING CONNECTION TO THE FILTER NOT TO THE FAUCETT. I WILL TRY TO GET A REPLACEMENT AS THE RING PART BROKE WHILE I TRIED TO TO TIGHTEN THE UNIT. HOPE THIS HELPS.Customer Review: Brita Faucet filter
Summary: 5 Stars
A superb product for $40. It's small and elegant, removes all taste and bacteria - a must in a city with an old water supply system. They say each $15 cartridge should filter 100 gallon, but my experience is more 30-40 gallon. Still well worth the money. A gallon of water costs $1.29 in the store, and I don't have to carry it home.Customer Review: Brita is easier, but not necessarily better.
Summary: 3 Stars
I had a PUR water filter for about 3 years and it worked fine. It came to a point, however, when changing the filter became too difficult. I purchased a BRITA water filter and was happy at the ease of replacing the cartridge. Plus the filter worked as well as the PUR filter (with the added bonus of a spray setting on the faucet.) When it came time to replace it again, I was dissapointed to see that the green indicator light was not working...(in fact no lights were working.) Now I am stuck with a filter that may not even be doing its job.Customer Review: CHEAP PLASTIC PARTS THAT FALL APART!
Summary: 1 Stars
let me first say that this review has nothing to do with the actual filtration system. it's the cheap plastic faucet filter that everyone should stay away from. i've had mine for less than 9 months and this thing completely fell apart on me last week. water started flying out of the area between the piece that attaches to the faucet and the base. after some inspection by my husband, it was determined that it was broken. we had to remove it because water was spraying everywhere everytime we turned on the faucet. i was beginning to dislike this brita filter even before its final trip to the garbage can. 1 - the faucet attachment is again made of cheap plastic, it needed to be tinkered with on a regular basis to avoid having water sprayed all over you when you turn on the faucet. 2 - the indicator light (green = filter good, red = change it) on my filter stopped working, even after i tried every suggestions listed in the trouble shooting manual. however, the quality of the water filtered by the brita filter was good. i just got so mad at this faucet model that i went back to the good ol' pitcher filters.
stick with the pitchers unless you must have a faucet model. i'm looking into the PUR system now. i've heard good things about it.