Sprite High Output KDF Chlorine Massaging Shower Head and Filter
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Sprite High Output KDF Chlorine Massaging Shower Head and Filter
Customer Review: Works so well, but doesn't last 1 year! (great for iron problems)
Summary: 5 Stars
I also live in the DC area, and it's funny to me how many of the reviews are from DC people. My problem was a little different. There's a lot of iron, or iron bacteria in the water. It was staining my bathroom pink/red. Condensation would build up on the bathroom walls from the shower, and then red streaks would run down. It looked like the Amityville horror house! Also, the bathroom seemed particularly prone to mold, which required a lot of diligent cleaning.
I wasn't sure if this shower filter could solve problems like this, but I figured for $40 it would be worth it to not have to clean the bathroom constantly. (also it was kind of embarrassing to have guests over). Well, sure enough it stopped the red buildup. What I wasn't expecting was it also stopped the mold in it's tracks. I guess their was something in the water feeding it? I don't really know. With the filter you're supposed to turn it over after 6 months, and then after a year replace it. Well, for me it only lasted a total of 6 months, but I think that might be because I have such terrible water quality. It's still absolutely worth it and I highly recommend!
Customer Review: Works well...
Summary: 4 Stars
Bought this item as I needed an extended showerhead to clear my automatic show cleaner. It is a nice product, very easy to install and as a nice touch, everything needed for installation including plumbers tape is included. A water flow restrictor is also in the box if needed. The flow on this shower head is VERY good so I am going to try the restrictor in the next week or two to see if I can still take a good shower with it on.
The instructions advise flipping the filter every so often to keep a good flow up, mine has been good since install (6 weeks ago) with my daily shower.
As for water quality, to be honest I don't really feel much of a difference with this filtered shower head. I still need to use conditioner in my hair though maybe not as much but since it solved my clearance problem and it flows nicely both in regular and massage mode, I am happy with it. If anything I can say the shower itself is cleaner with fewer water/soap spots to clean.
Customer Review: Great for 6 months, then blows out
Summary: 3 Stars
My partner and I each bought one of these and they worked great for about six months, after which the top of the plastic housing "blew out," by which I mean that a hole appeared just above the ring of vertical ridges at the top of the filter, with a rubber seal of some kind pushing out through that split in the plastic. It started as a slow leak, and then after a couple of weeks, the water sprayed out quite suddenly and massively.
There was no reduction in water flow that would indicate that the filter was too clogged, and in any case, this kind of a blowout should not occur. Furthermore, it happened to each one of us, maybe one month apart. It just happened to her this morning, which is why I am posting this review.
I wish that Sprite would make this in metal instead of plastic. Now I am stuck with an extra replacement filter that may have to be sacrificed because I think I will need to buy a different kind, now, much as I otherwise like this model.
Customer Review: Incredible difference
Summary: 5 Stars
We bought this item because we moved to a city that has very hard, chlorinated water. Within a week or two of our move, my hair was falling out a lot, and I had a very dry, itchy scalp with some sores from the harsh water. We purchased this shower head and filter (from another website), and I felt the difference in the softness of the water immediately. Within a week or so, my hair stopped falling out as much and my scalp healed up. My husband's hair also recuperated from how dry it was.
After a few months, the part that screws onto our own shower attachment cracked as I was screwing it on. I called the number on the shower filter package, and they sent me a new part very quickly. In total, the filter lasted about 9 or 10 months (for 2 of us plus sometimes our 2-year-old), and then my hair and scalp started having problems again. I replaced the filter, and everything returned to normal. This has been a wonderful blessing for us and works great.
Customer Review: does work
Summary: 5 Stars
Same here, doubted it would work but wanted to try and bought a set of cholrine test strips along with it to check. Anyway, this actually does work!
The showerhead arrived even before the test strips and I could already breathe the difference in my bathroom, and started to be a believer.
After checking the results carefully though, I determined that it works very well for free chlorine, but NOT well for or in the presence of chloramines.
If you have high chloramine content, this isn't ideal for you. Vitashower is better in that case (no it's not a scam - vitamins really are used for real dechlorination, look it up online).
Even if you have chloramines and it doesn't remove everything, it does make the water feel better, so whatever else it is doing to the water feels good.