Watts Premier20,000 Gallon Inline Water Filter with Two 1/4" Brass Connectors for Refrigerator, Ice Maker, RV, Camper, Water Cooler, Fountain, Reduces Bad Taste, Odors, Chlorine and Sediment

I just installed my second one of these filters. I put one in our previous house that was going great after 3 years when we moved, and I left the filter there. The water at our new house tasted heavily of Texas dirt (compliments of Lake Texoma), even after having been through the refrigerator's internal, new filter. So I bought another of these. The total install was about 30 minutes, which included cleaning behind the refrigerator! No leaks. Put the refrigerator back. Ran a couple of gallons through and gave it a taste test. EXCELLENT results! The improvement was exactly what we wanted.When I bought the previous filter in 2018, I remember that it was rated for 5 years. The new one says to replace after 6 months. 20,000 gallons in 6 months?? No way I'm using that much. I'll use this filter until the water starts tasting bad again, which I'm confident will be close to 6 years than 6 months.

This filter is so hard to find. I hope the company doesn't stop making it. Worth every penny. Lasts for years. Who wants to be changing a filter with connectors every 6 months? Not me. One and done for a few years and then switch it out. Love it. Fresh clean water and ice.

This is the same one I bought before. And I bought it again.So obviously I'm pleased with performance. It kills the chlorine smell/taste entirely.Hopefully it helps with any other stuff that's in there which I can't taste or smell.The old one worked very well. The water still tastes fine after at least a year.Replacing ahead of schedule. Mainly because I didn't want to miss out on the deal.When I complete the installation I will leave the old filter (which will not be expired yet) as a primary stage and the new filter as the secondary stage since it's still good for two or three years.The water should be ultra pure now! The primary stage should make the new filter last longer since the bulk of contaminants are removed before it gets there. That's my theory at least.Two stages will help because technically I use it beyond it's specified flow rate of 0.5 gpm. I custom made a simplistic faucet, sort of like the one that's over the spit bowl at the dentist, next to the fridge for drinking water. I just bent a shepards hook in the 1/4" copper tubing and attached it to a little "T" valve. Werks nice! I used a splitter to supply the faucet and the fridge's icemaker. Next fridge will have the faucet in the door but not sure when that will be . . .Britta is a pain and gets in the way. I never bothered to try it. And look at the size of it, this thing is three times the size of one of those thingsIt's like 2.5 inches in diameter for perspective. A little bit of trouble to install this and you will not have to worry about changing the filter for a long time. Especially easy if you have a fridge with a built in faucet.

Does a good job of filtering water this is the second one

Not only is the price great, it’s easy to install and it was delivered in just a couple of days! It does a great job of filtering our water. 👍

Does what is says it does and never any issues and I have purchased this filter many times

We had two kinds of flakes in the water from our fridge: 1) Translucent flakes that floated; and 2) White flakes that sank. Thawed ice-cubes from the ice-maker had both kinds of flakes, and like the water it smelled terrible and was undrinkable.Thinking the translucent flakes may have resulted from bacterial/algal biofilms in the lines and the white flakes were mineral deposits, we changed the filter within the fridge, and ran gallons of water through the new filter. This didn't help - the translucent flakes never disappeared and the white flakes came back 2-3 days. Ice-cubes remained as bad as they were before (here too, I dumped at least 10-15 loads of ice made over 2 weeks).Finally, as a last resort before getting a new fridge, I did the following after unhooking the fridge from the main water line:a) Pump two liters of bleach through the fridge water lines (letting the bleach sit in the line for 20-30 minutes).b) Pump several liters of clean water to flush the bleach.c) Pump two liters of hydrogen peroxide through the fridge water line, letting it sit for 30 minutes.d) Pump 10-20 liters of clean water to flush the peroxide.e) Replaced the filter within the fridge.After reconnecting the main supply line, the water was clean for exactly two days before we started seeing very small white mineral flakes again. After reading the reviews here, I decided to install the Watts filter as a pre-filter.I mounted the filter behind the refrigerator; two problems encountered by other reviewers are that an additional supply-line (connecting hose) or a mounting bracket are not provided with the filter. Supply-lines are readily available - Watts' makes these lines that are available from Amazon. The bracket is more troublesome. I was going to fashion something crude using zip-ties when I found that 2.5 inch conduit hangers were the right diameter to hold the filter. I replaced the bolts/nuts on the conduit hanger with longer bolts/wingnuts to make loosening/tightening easier. All put together (supply line + conduit hangers), it cost about $12 to mount the filter. I've attached photographs to make my descriptions clearer.It has now been a month since the filter has been installed and the neither the water nor the ice from the fridge have flakes of either kind. The water tastes great and is odor-free.Its only been a month, so I cannot comment on the filters longevity, but so far its been great.Update - June 17, 2013It has been just over a year. Filter is still working very well.