Brita Elite White Faucet Water Filter System, 1 Filter

I'm SO glad I bought this Brita Faucet filter! What a convenience! Just twist the little (sturdy) dial, and you great tasting fresh water. My first filter I changed after about 3 months, but I don't think I needed to. The light never came on, but it wasn't green when it should have been, so I didn't want to take any chances. This time I marked my calendar for 4 months, and it probably won't need it then either. It's just me and my small dog. The filters are very inexpensive, especially considering they last at least 4 months. And that's using them for dog water, ice cubes, coffee, watering plants, and drinking water. I had an RO system the last place I lived, and it was more trouble than the Brita. You had to get under the sink and pull out the I can not state it simpler than the title of this review. This coffee is GREAT. I am single and making a pot of coffee or even a half pot of coffee most times results in stale coffee left in the pot that gets thrown out. Talk about waste. So at home, making coffee in a conventional drip maker is really not economical for a single person. I drink probably 5 cups of coffee every day. One each morning before work, two at work, and then no coffee until after dinner which I am back home by then. So, at home three cups of coffee at best. At work, having no coffee maker, I had been drinking a double cup of Instant (I shutter to even think of it). Talk about NASTY tasting. I have tried many different brands of instant and none of them tasted worth anything. If it is not fresh brewed, its NOT coffee. While searching for a better way of brewing coffee, my main goals was easy, convenient, and FRESH Brewed taste. I was about to think I could not get these three together until I stumbled on Cold Brewed Coffee Concentrates which I have never in my 51 years ever heard of. I decided on the Filtron over the Toddy because it seemed easier and a better thought out little system. My first cup which was drank with a certain amount of apprehension was just eye opening GOOD. I do not think I had ever drank a home made cup of coffee that goodand because its a concentrate what could be easier than mixing 1 ounce with 4 or five of water and heating it in the microwave? As easy as instant but that fresh brewed taste makes it a winner. After two weeks of drinking this concentrate both at home and work (getting my 5 cups in a day :) I brewed a pot with my trusty ole plug in Hamilton beach drip machine and I could hardly drink the bitter cup of muddy water with an oil slick on top that I used to call a good CUP O JOE. I unplugged my drip machine that evening, and I am never looking back. I love the Filtron's smooth, great tasting coffee. Update: I am still drinking nothing else but coffee concentrate from my Filtron coffee brewer. Ah that cold brewed coffee. Thought I would give this helpful hint. I may be the last person aware of this helpful tidbit, however, get yourself an ice cube tray from say walmart. I chose the plastic Rubbermaid, which as luck would have it holds exactly one ounce liquid per cube. Every batch of coffee take out enough concentrate to make say eight coffee cubesor a whole tray but that uses up 16 ounces of your coffeeat any rate put this into your freezer and when frozen, remove from tray and put into zipper freezer bag. Keep enough frozen coffee cubes for that day, when in between batches (it does take 24 hours you know) when you need a cup. One coffee cube to your cup, fill with water and heat in microwave, no stirring required. to replace them. Those filters cost over $45 to replace. The Brita filters are much cheaper.

First, great value for a tap purification system am I right? Second,MUCH smaller than I anticipated. I’m sure there are exact dimensions but for the average person, mom, and partner it’s approx. 5 in high and 4 in wide. Third, my idea of a “tool” is the bottom of my high heel. I read and installed in about 3 minutes. Forth, and *most important* I have a well on my property and we’ve drank strictly bottled water for about 10 Years. After installing the Brita filter on my sink and ran for the recommended 5 minutes to activate filter I put bottles water and newly filter tapped well water in cups and my family and I did a test. 100% of my family members could not tell which was the tap well water and which was the bottle water. Not only that but we all Loved the fresh new taste of this tap water. Amazing. So pleased, I plan to buy a life time of filters. I don’t think anyone can be disappointed w this buy. Even if it does not last long (which is the only thing I cannot speak for yet) it’s still well worth the price of it. Recommend this product to everyone looking to filter their tap water, but for those w well water like me.. this is a must have!

I like these filters enough to keep buying them (one cracked because it was installed too tightly), but after using these for the last 6+ years, I feel like there are a couple things to note. First is that, yes, they can be put on too tight. Yes, this can cause it to break. It will leak from the faucet connection if this happens, but its because the fitting is plastic, so not much to do there except to be mindful on install. Second, when you pop the filter replacements out and then back in, the indicator seems to reset, at least on ours. Due to this, one may not be aware of when the filter actually needs to be replaced prior to needing to replace it. That brings us to the third thing to know: when the filter needs to be replaced, it will spray out the edges of the housing where the replacement filter click into the attachment. This was not something I was aware of at first and we thought the whole thing was broken and replaced it, but only the filter was needing to be changed out. Overall this is a buy i obviously would make again.

2-3 mos. of usage… Easy installation; no leaking. Once I got used to the tap-to-filter-to-tap water usage (swinging unit forward/backward) for my needs, it’s a no-brainer. 👍🏼

Seems to work ok...a little leaking from non filter side when using the filter. Gets rid of that nasty algae tasting tap water.

UPDATE: At the end of this review I mentioned I would try the PUR faucet filter, I have now and it is indeed much better, get that instead. It has an easy click attachment system, a better stream for both the filtered and unfiltered sides, looks and feels much higher in quality, filter is larger (and supposedly longer lasting), water tastes better, the lever to switch between filtered and non-filtered is also extremely easy to actuate, it takes almost no effort. In the name of almighty cost savings they made some very questionable decisions, the whole thing exudes COST SAVINGS. For starters, the box which is made of extremely thin gauge cardboard which could bend in a light breeze, comes with no seal of any kind. What was the reason for this? Saving cost on tape? Preventing the tape from interfering with cardboard recycling? I doubt those are more important than making sure something that handles drinking water isn't tampered with... Inside the box both the filter unit and the filter cartridge aren't in any kind of bag/wrapping whatsoever, yet the small bag of adapters IS wrapped in a bag. I actually thought mine was a customer return because I've bought a ton of Brita cartridges in the past and they always came wrapped in white individual plastic bags, so I returned this for a replacement and the replacement is also unwrapped, so OKAY let's wrap every Brita filter cartridge in the universe in plastic but not these so we can't tell if anyone tampered with them? The aerator on it (the thing that the water comes out of) for the passthrough (the unfiltered water) is also pretty terrible, it uses a flow restrictor/arrestor that cuts the flow to about 75% of the unarrested flow rate, and the aerator itself is designed so poorly that the stream of water it emits which should be straight, instead dribbles and sprays in a weird pattern like someone trying to urinate with an enlarged prostate. To fix the uneven stream you have to rub your fingertip over the holes/nozzles on the aerator, this leads me to believe the cause of the uneven stream is air bubbles that form and lodge in the nozzles, blocking them and changing the way the stream flows, when you rub your finger over them you pop the bubbles or otherwise dislodge them and it evens out the stream. The filtered side emits a separate stream just under where the filter is located, without an aerator so it doesn't have the above problem, but the stream is slow and tiny. It takes about a minute to fill two measuring cups of water. The stream is also fairly high pressure so if you have a shallow sink and you have it at full blast, it hits the floor of the sink and splashes on everything around the sink. The switch for changing from filtered to non-filtered is a little wing you have to twist, if you get this oily during cooking it's going to be really annoying to grip and twist, even in a clean state it requires some effort to twist. If you're elderly or have poor dexterity in your fingers (ex: arthritis) it's going to become a problem. I bought two of these: one for myself and another for a relative. I use mine to filter water for cooking, I use it almost every day, it's only been about two months and the restriction gauge is almost entirely red though the filtered water flow seems unchanged. My relative has been using it for the same amount of time for cooking and their gauge is almost completely green but the filtered water flow has completely stopped, it drips maybe ten individual drops of water per second. The small filter size, the short filter lifespan and the price for the filters are altogether criminal, it makes this whole concept trash, you're going to be replacing tiny expensive filters frequently. It's so bad it's made me reconsider the whole thing, I ordered a PUR faucet filter and I'm going to try that instead, if it's better I'm going to give one to my relative and we're ditching this junk.

I thought “oh it’s brita, I shouldn’t have an issue” but boy was I wrong. I waited for this thing to come and the filter itself doesn’t snap all the way in. The light doesn’t even work and to be honest it looked like someone had it before me the way the box looked mangled. I contacted brita directly and was told to contact Amazon to be told by Amazon that they can compensate me half of what I paid because it still somewhat works just not the light. THATS THE GOD HONEST TRUTH. Contacted brita again to troubleshoot and still nothing and at this point it was running for over 20 minutes. I guess the “pros” are it’s quiet and the installation was pretty easy.

Hace tres años uso Brita para filtrar mi agua por salud y por ahorro.

Pour ma maison c est parfait

Der Wasserenthärter ist in Gut! Die Lieferung durch Hermes eine Schlechte! Es wird nur Gelogen, was die Zustellung betrifft! Schade AMERZON so ein Auslieferer zu haben.

Very nice!!

Cumple lo que promete y ahorras mucho!!

Very easy to install, operate and maintain. Testing the water with and without the filter shows it works beautifully