iFilters CNTP-1C Countertop Drinking Water Filtration System with NSF 0.5 Micron Coconut Carbon Filter & Faucet Adapter | Reduces Chlorine, VOCs, Cysts, Pesticides, Bad Taste, Odor & Organic Chemicals

Writing this review after using the counter filter for 5 months. It works great by removing the chlorine and chemical smell of our tap water. The filter held up for 5 months. I cut the filter to see the inside and it definitely removed sediments live rust and sand from the water. Please see photos attached to my review. Filter on the right was used for 5 months and is discolored. Filter on the left is unused. 2nd photo is from the inside of the housing after 5 months. Easy to clean out before installing new filter. We bought 2 of these. One for the kitchen and one for the bathroom. Came with a assortment of faucet attachments. No trouble connecting them to existing fixtures. Remember to put the white washer between the faucet and faucet attachment. I would recommend this product.

I was a little skeptical about buying one of these types of filters, but I am so glad I did! It took me a total of 2 minutes to install and after running it for about 5 minutes I gave it a try. And it is simply awesome! The water here is super chlorinated and this was the main reason I got it. And since it is a city I'm sure there are all sorts of debris and metals in the water. But my coffee tasted awful with the tap water and buying bottled water for my coffee was expensive. And I need to say WOW! I am a total coffee snob and I have a high end burr mill grinder and coffee machine. And I can honestly say I don't think I have ever really tasted my coffee before! I just moved to this area and where I moved from only used a tiny bit of chlorine in their water and I noticed a huge change for the worst in the flavor when I moved here. But now I realize that even the tiny bit in my last house really tainted the flavor. And I am now for the first time actually tasting my coffee! And that makes me very happy! And now I am drinking more water overall! It tastes as clean and as delicious as the untreated and amazing spring water I grew up on. It is funny how water quality can really change things! It just tastes like clean and very soft water. One more comment I want to make is that the filter flows FAST! It fills a coffee pot in about 7-8 seconds! Almost as fast as the tap itself! I thought it would slow the flow down a little but but it comes flying out of that little spigot! I would recommend this filter to everyone who wants great tasting water. Not sure why anyone would give this anything less than a 5 star review. It arrived quickly and works better than I could have ever imagined!

leaving this review, it asks to Rate Features: Flavor... while I do not know the flavor of the filter itself because I have not yet licked the filter, the water that comes out is nice and clean. Easy enough to install but you do need to be at least somewhat mechanically inclined. Looks like it should be a good value for the money if it really does last as long as they make it sound. The fact that they have a website and sell other places means not likely for the filter cartridges to disappear any time soon. update 2023NOV27: After about 1 year and 4 months, the water started tasting nasty, so time to change the filter which I already had on hand. Now I know that a cartridge here in this apartment will last a little over a year, and can set an alarm for 1 year and 2 months, and buy the next filter cartridge sometime before then. As long as you buy the ifilter cartridge from ifilter on here, there is no reason to think it won't work. some people who wrote reviews are probably not mechanically inclined to understand how things work, but whatever... no problems for me... unscrewing using the wrench thing that comes with the filter (make sure you save that). I do recommend cleaning the inside and outside at this time with warm dishsoapy water, and then rinsing the F out of the everything, then putting the case back on without the filter yet and letting it run a couple minutes to rinse any soap out of the lines, and then putting the filter in, cranking down on the case tight to make sure it won't leak, and then letting it run for 5 minutes just to make sure any carbon or factory dust from the new cartridge is washed out. Taste test afterward to make sure the water tastes "clean". then good to go. and I am planning on getting an extra one to swap out during cartridge change, so I can more easily wash out recently used one and pack it away with next cartridge, while using the packed away one that already has a new cartridge in it. just to make the cleaning and cartridge swap a bit easier. (easier to clean the thing while not connected. and for 40 bucks, might as well have an extra on hand.)

Good but I don't trust the filter. The water tasted terrible after just a few days. But since it uses universal standard sized filters you can buy anywhere it would be easy to put something else in it. For the $30 +- I paid for it a year ago it's a good value. I only used it for month though and now it's in storage. Why? 2 reasons. 1> water coming out of my tap in Arizona during the summer months is extremely hot. And 2> It takes up space beside my sink which is at a premium. I've been using a Brita filter with a spigot at the bottom for several years and like that better.

First off, I read a lot of reviews on this one and others that are similar build. Getting them open is a struggle. I have very hard and crappy water in NM and I knew it would be hard to get open after it had been filled for quite a while so I opened it before installing and repeat around every month. It makes it so that it doesn't lock on as hard, and I'd recommend doing the same. HOT TIP: Most of the style like this use the same size filters. So even if you want one of the alkaline ones you can buy this housing and then buy the fancier filters. (I think it said the warranty would void without the OEM filters, but at this price that's not a big deal to me) We live in an RV and have never drank from the tap in any area, RV park water can be sketchy! We always got filtered drinking water but it was becoming a pain to get as we are full-time. I knew there was no way a little Brita would be strong enough to clean the water around here and started looking. Plenty of the pricier ones had some great filters, but I didn't really want to spend 100 bucks to get started and it was sometimes/often vague on what size adapters they came with. We decided on this guy because the price was right and as stated above we could upgrade filters later on. We did double up with an outdoor filter to get the big stuff to help extend this one and it's working a treat. The water tastes better than the filtered and we've had no issues. It's also wayyyy softer so we wash our faces in the kitchen sink now. 10/10 would recommend.

After about a year my filter is due for a new cartridge. It still looks great and there is no corrosion on the fittings, or decomposition of the plastic parts. The spout fitting is convenient. I got it because it's a tremendous improvement over standard consumer filters. I needed something with a 0.5 micron rating to remove cysts, due to infrequent boil water alerts. It has a larger filter, and the flow rate is much higher. I haven't been sick since I got it, so I know it removes the bugs. I absolutely recommend it. I priced out making a similar unit from parts, but this was cheaper, and I couldn't source the spout part. The filter it came with is great, but it's a standard canister so you can use a different filter if you like. You can also add it to a standard multi-stage system. You have to research water filters and water filter quality to understand what they do. TDS is not the best measure of water quality. Expensive bottled mineral or alkaline water has tons of TDS. Carbon removes chemicals and bad stuff, not all dissolved solids. Unless you have high levels of some particular contaminate, it's perfectly fine. Only reverse osmosis and/or de-ionization will give you zero TDS. Also, standard carbon filters remove chlorine, but not chloramine. Unfortunately chloramine is increasingly popular in water treatment, and it's extremely difficult to remove. Even 4 stage RO/DI filters with two carbon blocks won't do it. You need a special catalytic carbon block and a de-ionization stage to do that.

This water filter works very well. Good quality materials, easy to install, great flow! The only drawback to them relative to the pitcher based systems is it takes up some counter space (not much) but has advantages such as much better filtering, flow, and lower cost over lifetime.

I don't do testing, so I can't comment on the efficacy of contaminant removal. I got it because the water in my little seaside town tastes horrid. This filter gives me great tasting water, better than any counter-top unit I've tried and was relatively easy to set up. It does use up some of your sinktop space so wouldn't be good for a sink with a rim that protrudes from the countertop, or doesn't have much space behind the sink. I was pleasantly surprised at how quickly I got used to flipping the little switch when I wanted to use the smaller spigot for drinking water. Otherwise, it operates like a normal faucet for dishwashing, etc.