Watts Premier 531130 Filter-Pure UF-3 3-Stage Water Filtration System Review

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(More customer reviews)I've owned RO systems, whole house systems, and tried various other carbon filters and such.

I found installation to be pretty easy.The instructions were pretty clear although I had some trouble fitting the faucet to my sink hole snugly.It still rotates a bit but it's fine.The unit itself is compact for a 3 filter setup and of course the filters are quite easy to change.
The quality of the faucet is also very nice.It matched a nice sink/faucet setup very well.

Performance is another story here.My wife used to make me change our RO filters too much, complaining it tasted funny.So I got this water tester.It's pretty nice and it shows contaminants in parts per million.So after installing this thing I tested it, comparing it to a Brita.If memory serves me correctly RO got around 70 PPM on this test.Of course I don't expect this to compare to that, but it's some sort of reference.The Brita tests at about 120PPM.This unit is reading about 127PPM.Tap water tests at 136PPM.So basically the Brita is outperforming this unit.As far as taste goes it seems fine, but I do sometimes detect a slight taste to the water.I live in Austin, TX and our water is actually not that bad here.I've performed this test many times over several weeks, always with the same results.The tester is a TDS.Keep in mind it may not be perfect, but it is very consistent and it always showed relative results when comparing tap, whole house, RO, carbon, etc.This is my first experience with what I thought was a better filter system being outperformed by a lesser one.

I emailed WATTS with that information and I'll just past the reply.I found it to be pretty worthless.

While we would expect that should perform better than the Brita, that is not always going to hold true. The UF3 is merely a more thorough filtration than the Brita but it may be releasing a little bit of carbon from the carbon filter. It will NOT perform any where near what a reverse osmosis unit would.So overall I'm satisfied, but a little troubled by the performance.

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