Watts Premier 531130 Filter-Pure UF-3 3-Stage Water Filtration System Save 14% Off

• Reduce your environmental impact: Using this Watts UF-3 system can save over 2,500 half liter bottles going in to land fills per filter change out
• System comes equipped with everything needed for installation
• Valve-in Head shuts water off automatically for easy filter changes - no tools needed
• High end ceramic valve Euro style brushed nickel non-airgap faucet for easy filling of glasses, pitchers, and coffee pots
• WQA Certified to NSF/ANSI Standard 42 and 53

I wanted to give this kit a good review because it saved me from another crappy one made by GE. I found this kit pretty easy to install and only had to do it once to get it right, without leaks. The faucet in particular is well made, solid, and attractive, and fits very well in my cramped sink area. The handle on the faucet is right in front, so you don''t have to worry about it hitting stuff on either side. Good design, and looks nice as well.

The Watts hose connectors are higher quality than another kit I bought, made by GE. I wasted a whole Sunday afternoon installing that GE kit over and over, only to find it kept leaking. The problem with the GE kit is that it relied completely on push-in hose connectors, the kind with the little plastic collet with rasps to hold the hose in. And those connectors were not made well.

I''m much happier with this kit, even though it cost $35 more. It does also use 2 of the push-in hose connectors, but they were better made than the GE kit, and easier to insert. The other 2 connectors are actual compression joints that screw in. They hold much better and, after tightening, have not leaked.

The instructions in the box might throw you off a little bit. In one area, it has 3 sets of instructions for how to install 3 different faucets. You need to figure out which faucet you have, and ignore the other instructions. Not a big problem, but not as easy or clean a process as it could be. There was also a half-page addendum floating around the box which I didn''t see till I was already done, which had a correction for one of the lines in the instructions. After puzzling over it, I started to suspect this addendum did not in fact belong to the kit I bought but some other one. Shrug. ANYWAY: if you lay your parts all out in front of you and go through the instructions step by step, you''ll be fine.

You will need these tools:

1) Exacto knife to cleanly cut the plastic tubing. If the cuts are not clean, the push-in connectors won''t work. And the tubing came with rough cuts.

2) Adjustable wrench for tightening the nuts in the joints (actually 2 wrenches would be best because you may have a situation or two where you need to tighten one nut against another, without turning the other one too).

3) Screwdriver or power drill for screwing the filter bank to the wall

4) Thread seal tape. I found that the blue tube''s compression joint sleeve was not a snug fit. Too loose. So I gave it a little plumbing thread seal tape to make it snug. The green tube came with a brass insert and brass nut, but the blue tube came with a plastic insert and the fit was different. Why? Good question. I hate to say it, but: typical American manufacturer. Mismatched parts and badly communicated instructions. Oh well, it worked in the end!

You don''t get the same high level of filtration from a filter kit like this that you would get with a bulkier reverse osmosis kit. But we have basically good municipal water and just wanted to augment that and make it taste a little better. I did a blind taste test with my wife after installation and she was able to pick out the 1 glass out of 3 that had filtered water in it vs. the other two that had tap.

Taking 1 star off the review because the instructions were a little messy, and it would have been great if they''d used screw-in connectors for all 4 connection points. But still, I''m not complaining.

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he good: Compact unit takes up very little space under the sink. Attractive faucet. Install SHOULD be easy.

The bad: The ''T'' junction fitting that connects the filter to the cold water line is a piece of garbage. Throw it away. Don''t even try. When I finally did get it hooked up, after running out to HD for extra o-rings, I turned on the valve to allow H2O into the filter and water started spurting out of the valve. Water was not coming out around my connections, mind you. The water was coming out around the "dial" you turn to open the flow to the filter.

I''m not a plumbing novice. In the just the last three months I''ve installed a toilet, a faucet, a garbage disposal and a dishwasher. This should have been the easiest of those jobs, by far (it wasn''t). This valve is a tragedy.

So, my recommendation is to go ahead and get this filter. However, if you receive the plastic fitting instead of the brass, just throw it out and buy a brass fitting instead. It''s the same fitting you would use to hook up a fridge/ice-maker to your cold-water line. If I''d just done that from the beginning, this would have been a 40 minute job. Instead, it took several hours over two days, including all the re-work and the two separate trips to HD.

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this was the 3rd filtration system that I tried.

all of them were similar and in the same price range; this one was the cheapest.

the quality of everything that came in the box was pretty amazing, down to the brass fitting, while the other 2 I tried were PVC.

the knock on this system is the installation manual picture of how to assemble all the washersit was pretty bad, but I was able to figure it out.

perfect water stream and great taste.

I''ve had it for a month or so and no leaks or any other issues.

very, very simple to install and I may be the world''s worst plumber.

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I installed the Watts Premier UF3 system in the water line to my refrigerator ice-maker, in the hopes of having better-tasting water and ice from the dispenser on front of the fridge, and reducing the number of plastic bottles that we use (which of course we recycle). It sounded like the 3 filters in this unit must be better the a single-canister ice-maker filter, and this system doesn''t require a drain line like the Watts Premier RO-Pure 531411 4-Stage Reverse Osmosis System reverse-osmosis system. I bought some fittings from the hardware store to connect the UF3 filter between the water valve and the back of the fridge, so that I didn''t use the Watts-supplied plastic tee valve or faucet. I had to cut & frame a box in the wall behind the fridge in which to mount it, since the UF3 sticks out 4 inches from the wall, and I didn''t want the fridge to stick out any further into the kitchen.

When I first turned on the water, the "filtered" water came out brownish black, but the manual says to expect some carbon to come out when first used and to discard the first 3 gallons, and the water cleared up after that. I compared the input & output water quality using a HM Digital COM-100 Waterproof EC/TDS/TEMP Meter. Although I don''t know if counting "total dissolved solids" is a reasonable way to measure water "quality", my readings were as follows:

* Tap water (Houston): 230-450 ppm

* UF3-filtered tap water: 170-220 ppm (after 5-10 gallons filtered; filter output was about 400 ppm after flushing only the first 3 gallons!)

Using the TDS same meter to compare the particulate content of bottled water, the measurements were as follows (range is variation between multiple purchases, and potentially associated with time on shelf):

* Distilled water (Ozarka brand): 1 ppm

* Distilled water (Kroger brand): 5-16 ppm

* Aquafina bottled water: 3-20 ppm

* Ozarka bottled water (Houston): 13-40 ppm

* Kirkland bottled water: 20-40 ppm

The particulate count from the HM Digital TDS meter seems to correspond well with the taste. The water from the UF3 filter tastes slightly better than the incoming Houston tap water, but still many times worse than bottled water. I suppose I was expecting that 99% of the particulates would be removed, versus the 20% that were actually removed (if possibly 99% are indeed being removed, then what is the filter putting back in to account for the huge ppm count of the output water?)

Besides the disappointment in output water quality, I was put off by the California Proposition 65 Warning in the Watts UF3 installation manual, indicating that the product contains known carcinogens. I only hope that the carcinogens are not being leached into the water, since Watts doesn''t reveal whether they are or not. (If anyone finds a good water filter that doesn''t contain known Proposition 65 carcinogens, please comment.)

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Here is a video of my just installed filter in HD. This is as good as you can get without having RO. And for the price its great. Great parts and quality built.