Brita 42633 Faucet Filtration System, Black/Chrome
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Brita 42633 Faucet Filtration System, Black/Chrome
Customer Review: Install it without the strainer?
Summary: 1 Stars
I have been going through the installation difficulty that many people complained about here. So far I have exchanged the product 3 times and none of them could be installed properly due to the junk plastic adapter/threading. Finally I found a temporary solution today - I took out the strainer so the plastic threading is deep enough to stay on the adapter. To prevent leaking, I put plumbing tapes on the adapter. Now the filter stays on the faucet just fine and there's no water leak. But I am not sure whether the product will function properly without the strainer.Customer Review: It'll fall off, you'll be sad.
Summary: 1 Stars
This generation of the product seems to have a flawed connection to your faucet. The plastic threads that hold it to the faucet will strip, and it'll constantly fall off. Taking out the washer helps a little bit, but... turn on your faucet to a reasonable level... it'll fall off again.
Naturally it does this at inconvenient times, spraying all around with water. You might want to take a pass on this product for a while.
Pluses-- it filters! The 3 modes are nice.
Downsides-- after a while, the battery (?) will die, so it won't give you the LED indication on when to change the filter. This'll happen after around a year... assuming the aformentioned fatal flaw doesn't kill it first.
Customer Review: Junk
Summary: 1 Stars
The plastic threads won't hold. With after three applications, the water pressure blew the entire filter unit off the faucet.Customer Review: Like the others say, a terrible product.
Summary: 1 Stars
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.
Customer Review: Much better than PUR
Summary: 4 Stars
I went through 3 or 4 of the PUR faucet mount filters. They gave great results while they worked - but they clogged up very quickly, and invariably, the mount cracked within 6 months. They honor the 5 year warranty, but who wants to go to the trouble and expense of shipping it back to the factory every 6 months, and then waiting several weeks for the replacement.
I switched to Brita about 2 years ago, and have been happy. I've been through probably 8 replacement filters and it still works.
Compared to PUR:
PROS
Mount more durable
Filters don't clog before reaching their capacity for filtration
Much easier to change filters than PUR (PUR often jammed and took a lot of effort to screw the cap on and off). The just pop on, pop off.
CONS
The water taste is not quite as good as PUR, and based on the published stats, they don't filter quite as much as the PUR filters - but on both counts Brita is very close.
Much happier with Brita than PUR. I don't know how PUR manages to stay in business - the quality is just so awful.