Sprite Massaging Handheld Chlorine Shower Filter Unit with Replaceable Filter pre-installed
by Sprite Industries
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Sprite Massaging Handheld Chlorine Shower Filter Unit with Replaceable Filter pre-installed
Customer Review: tempermental filter replacement process
Summary: 3 Stars
I've owned this shower head for about a year. It works as advertised and I'm happy to shower clorine free. I'm especially pleased to have no calcium residual clogging up the spray.
HOWEVER...I'm surprised no one has mentioned the following problem. To establish a leakproof seal when replacing the filters, one has to vaseline the rubber seals. Otherwise the water bypasses the filter and squirts out the threads between the head and body of the device. You've got to get the vaseline evenly spread or it won't work. you're supposed to reverse the direction of the filter every month and replace on the third month. The body of the filter gets gross with vaseline and the whole process becomes messy and unpleasant.
But I'm sticking with it because I like the performance.
UPDATE: I cleaned the whole thing thoroughly recently, used minmal vaseline the first time and I've used none the last two times with no problem. Maybe some of my issues are user error?
Customer Review: Not for hard water?
Summary: 3 Stars
I had read here on Amazon and elsewhere online that this system helped to eliminate odors from hard water. I was excited to try this item out after it finally arrived. It took me quite a while to get it installed leak free (and this wasn't my first time ever changing a shower head). Unfortunately, I quickly discovered (within days) that the water in shower still has an odor to it. It works well for its massage capabilities. I guess it was worth a try.Customer Review: Doesn't work with our well water
Summary: 3 Stars
After researching this product, I bought it because of its claims to reduce the amount of iron in the water. We either have a lot of iron or it doesn't work. Either way, it is not filtering out the iron. Like another review, I also had problems with leaking, which never happened with other shower heads I have installed. I cannot rate the chlorine filtering because I have well water, but I wouldn't recommend it for iron.Customer Review: not bad but there are better solutions including from Sprite
Summary: 2 Stars
This item seems to work but I only gave it two stars as I would not buy it again. I installed (easy enough) in our master bathroom. The price had just dropped to $30 at a hardware store. The handle is very long as it needs to integrate the long skinny filter. Because of this it sits significantly higher than any hand held shower massager I've ever tried. We need to be careful to angle it downward in order to make sure we aren't spraying water over the back shower wall. The only other negative is that these long skinny filters are rated for only 3 months of typical use compared to 6 months of typical use for the non-hand held models.
For my daughter's bathroom I decided to install a non-hand held Sprite filter and put a hand held mount underneath that. This was I could choose from a much bigger selection of shower heads (simple non-adjustable non-massaging was my choice as these last longer). There were no leaks. I will have to replace the filters half as often for her bathroom than I will for ours and the height of the shower head when placed on the mount is much better. If I had to do ours again I would do it how I did my daughter's.
Customer Review: The price grabbed me
Summary: 2 Stars
The price is right but the product results don't live up to other shower The Aquasana AQ4100 Shower Filter/ W extra headfilters I've used.