Brita On Tap Replacement Filters, White, 2-Pack
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Brita On Tap Replacement Filters, White, 2-Pack
Customer Review: Amazon wins over CVS on price, and the Brita filters are easily the best.
Summary: 5 Stars
New York City has exceptionally clean and tasty tap water, but running the tap through this filter makes it so much cleaner. When it comes to consuming pollutants, you can't be too safe.
That being said though, filtering all your water is quite expensive especially when you have a stay-at-home spouse like I do (and my wife is from Japan, which has the highest per capita water consumption in the world). At CVS these filters cost over $22 each (that's one per package!); that's almost prohibitively expensive particularly since we use ours for literally all the water we consume for drinking and cooking (not cleaning of course), so we go through probably 1 filter per month where many might go through 2 or 3 per year. Simple math: 12*22=$264 per year. On Amazon it's $25 for two, so we pay $150 per year, or a savings of $114. Truth be told, my wife might be changing out filters faster than that because the flow dwindles down to a trickle before the indicator on the faucet attachment indicates it's time to change, so we save exponentially more money by buying them from Amazon (with free shipping due to my Amazon Prime membership).
Home economics aside, I am just astounded by how well this filtration system works. The water is, without exaggeration, crystal clear. New York City tap water is already purer than spring water, and yet we can see and taste the difference between the tap water and filtered even if it does little more than remove chlorine.
I would still be fine with straight tap water except that my wife has horrible allergies. And while the water wont trigger an allergic reaction, she is noticably healthier since we started using the Brita tap filter system.
BOTTOM LINE: Our Brita filters are now a household essential. We've used other brands, but none come even close to providing the level of filtering that these do. And buying these on Amazon has provided us a great savings.
Customer Review: Availability is the best
Summary: 5 Stars
The product is good. It is the best filter system I have used. But the weak point for Brita is availability, since I hardly find them at the Supermarket so I buy it from Amazon. So availability at Amazon is the best.Customer Review: Best faucet mount so far
Summary: 5 Stars
Great price at Amazon. Has a forceful spray option in addition to regular aerated stream for non-filtered warer. The filtered stream is strong and quick with a green light indicator. Red light when played out. Easy to mount.Customer Review: Better than Pur, But Didn't Last Long
Summary: 3 Stars
After using Pur faucet-mounted water filters for years, and having to replace them every year or two due to cracks or leaks, I finally tried Brita. Much better design! Easier to replace, no leaks, no cracks, same water quality. And through Amazon, better price.
UPDATE:
A year later--no problems so far. One quirk of the Brita, however, is that when it's in filtering mode the stream of water is quite narrow, and forceful, so it can easily bounce off whatever it's hitting and spray around. Filling ice cube trays, for example, requires a little practice to actually have the water stay in the compartments instead of spraying everywhere else. But really, this is nitpicking. Still prefer it to Pur. And it also takes up a little less space under the faucet.
SECOND UPDATE:
After a year and a half, I accidentally broke the unit by shaking the water out of some greens over the sink and hitting it. Didn't take much, I'm afraid. But I'm going to replace it with the same unit. The reviews of the unit itself are filled with angry one-stars complaining the thing pops off the sink, but those are all for FAUCETS THREADED ON THE INSIDE. Mine is not, and I've never had a problem. (Some reviews like the Culligan. I haven't tried it, but it has no indicator telling you when to change filters. That seems like a significant feature to me--I don't want to have to keep track of when I last replaced it, and be constantly either throwing away filters with use left on them or drinking unfiltered water for some unknown period of time.)
THIRD UPDATE:
My replacement unit didn't last very long. Even with a new filter, the indicator light was always red, the water didn't taste filtered, and I suspect the water just wasn't being routed through the filter at all. I'm going to try the Culligan.
Customer Review: Better than town water
Summary: 5 Stars
I've purchased these before and bought the newest ones to replace the others and Amazon had the best price/shipping. These work well if youre OK with attaching it to your faucet