Do Pur water filters work?

[Syringer]

It's a filter that attaches to your faucet..and claims to give you bottled water quality water for a fraction of the price..anyone ever use it?

 

[Zim Hosein]

I've used them, the water tastes better to me

 

[Ime]

The wife and I use 'em... water tastes great! Well worth the $$$. Now regular tap water just tastes yucky.

 

[Sukhoi]

Yes, we have one to clean our well water. The disadvantage is the filtered water comes out very slowly compared to regular tap water.

 

[Kelemvor]

They had a review of these on TV here the other day. They found that they ONLY work if you change the filter as often or more often than the package says. Otherwise you're actually contaminating the water instead of cleaning it. I'll see if I can find a link...

 

[Hubris]

I got into using a filtered pitcher at college and still use it to this day. MUCH better than tap water, and it also doesn't have the weird taste that some bottled water has.

About it coming out slowly; at my house we have a filter on the main water line so there's no effect on how fast the water comes out. Very nice.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

Yeah, they work well. Personally I prefer to use a Brita pitcher, because I like having a supply of cold, filtered water. Either will work very nicely and is much nicer to drink than tap water.

 

[0roo0roo]

y its probably superior to most bottled water which is just slightly treated tap water since its atleast fresh.

if you read any studies on those over priced bottled water companies, its a tad scary. traces of chemicals, bacteria etc. selling tap water like its gold

most those bottled water brands are just owned by coke or pepsi

 

[Ime]

Originally posted by: FrankyJunior
They had a review of these on TV here the other day. They found that they ONLY work if you change the filter as often or more often than the package says. Otherwise you're actually contaminating the water instead of cleaning it. I'll see if I can find a link...

Um, yeah... that's the same with any type of filter (air filter, water filter, etc).

We change ours when the filter indicator reads full... sometimes sooner. We can tell when it's time to change, the water will have a different taste. Sometimes the taste change happens earlier than the indicator says, and we'll change then rather than wait.

 

[datalink7]

Probably depends on where you are.

Where I live we get pretty decent tap water, so we might not notice a difference. But other places with worse tap water you probably would.

 

[Ime]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
y its probably superior to most bottled water which is just slightly treated tap water since its atleast fresh.

if you read any studies on those over priced bottled water companies, its a tad scary. traces of chemicals, bacteria etc. selling tap water like its gold

most those bottled water brands are just owned by coke or pepsi

This is why I refill by store bought water bottles with filtered water from my tap. I always wash the bottle between refills.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

Originally posted by: Ime

Originally posted by: FrankyJunior
They had a review of these on TV here the other day. They found that they ONLY work if you change the filter as often or more often than the package says. Otherwise you're actually contaminating the water instead of cleaning it. I'll see if I can find a link...

Um, yeah... that's the same with any type of filter (air filter, water filter, etc).

We change ours when the filter indicator reads full... sometimes sooner. We can tell when it's time to change, the water will have a different taste. Sometimes the taste change happens earlier than the indicator says, and we'll change then rather than wait.

My Brita pitcher has a little LCD indicator that reminds you to change the filter (though it is obviously based on time used, rather than quantity of water filtered), which is handy.

 

[Kanalua]

I use Britta Filters, and I used to be a skeptic, but after the first replacement filter, I must say, I can REALLY tell the difference.

Anyway...2 cents...

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: Don_Vito

Originally posted by: Ime

Originally posted by: FrankyJunior
They had a review of these on TV here the other day. They found that they ONLY work if you change the filter as often or more often than the package says. Otherwise you're actually contaminating the water instead of cleaning it. I'll see if I can find a link...

Um, yeah... that's the same with any type of filter (air filter, water filter, etc).

We change ours when the filter indicator reads full... sometimes sooner. We can tell when it's time to change, the water will have a different taste. Sometimes the taste change happens earlier than the indicator says, and we'll change then rather than wait.

My Brita pitcher has a little LCD indicator that reminds you to change the filter (though it is obviously based on time used, rather than quantity of water filtered), which is handy.

yea the water kinda slows big time when the indicator hits the end. not that hard to tell

 

[tweakmm]

Filtered water is a joke compared to water run through a reverse osmosis system.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

Originally posted by: tweakmm
Filtered water is a joke compared to water run through a reverse osmosis system.

Maybe it is - I have no idea - but the fact remains that a Brita or Pur system allows much tastier water for a whopping $20-30, which you can't really say for a reverse osmosis system.

 

[RossMAN]

We buy our BRITA/PUR pitchers and filters from CostCo B&M, best prices!

 

[conjur]

<----- likes his Brita pitcher.

 

[isekii]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
We buy our BRITA/PUR pitchers and filters from CostCo B&M, best prices!

I think it's cheaper on ebay.

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: Don_Vito

Originally posted by: tweakmm
Filtered water is a joke compared to water run through a reverse osmosis system.

Maybe it is - I have no idea - but the fact remains that a Brita or Pur system allows much tastier water for a whopping $20-30, which you can't really say for a reverse osmosis system.

yes, with reverse osmosis you better be living in mexico or somewhere where the water really needs treatment bad then add hepa filtering for the whole house

 

[bolomite]

trust me, Pur/Brita barely do anything. One filter cartridge is nowhere near enough to adequately remove your water's contaminants. You can purchase a reverse osmosis 3- or 4-stage filtration system for ~$125 at places like Home Depot or Sears. Well worth it in the long run

 

[0roo0roo]

well if little filters can turn stream water into drinkable for camping(u find em at any store that sells campin stuff), i think a much larger tap filter works ok. not to mention consumer reports seems to find them reasonably effective.

 

[fatbaby]

those filters are slow as a$$ though! Its like 1 drop of water every 5 seconds. Takes you a few hours to fill up a quart of water.

We just take it up the a$$ and pay for sparklettes delivery.

 

[dighn]

Originally posted by: fatbaby
those filters are slow as a$$ though! Its like 1 drop of water every 5 seconds. Takes you a few hours to fill up a quart of water.

We just take it up the a$$ and pay for sparklettes delivery.

brita is fairly fast. one pitcher in about 5 minutes i think.

says it eliminates almost all of the lead/mercury/chlorine contents... well the water here is already excellent. i'm just kinda paranoid. besides the total lack of chlorine tastes better

 

[tweakmm]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
well if little filters can turn stream water into drinkable for camping(u find em at any store that sells campin stuff), i think a much larger tap filter works ok.

Non-fatal != pure.