PUR CRF-950Z 2-Stage Water Pitcher Replacement Filter, 3-Pack
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of PUR CRF-950Z 2-Stage Water Pitcher Replacement Filter, 3-Pack
Customer Review: Pur over Brita, and neither softens water.
Summary: 5 Stars
Pur makes water filters for campers and backpackers, proving their abilities with water far worse and more suspect than your home tap. Only Katadyn has a better reputation for personal filtration, and Katadyn bought Pur. Rest assured, these are technologically solid and proven filters.So why Pur? I looked at Brita and Pur back in 1998, and found that Pur was filtering more harmful elements than Brita. While Brita may or may not have caught up, it hasn't surpassed Pur in quality, and I've put my trust in Pur before. Going with proven leaders, especially with your water, is smart.
These filters have low-tech indicators that let you know when an allotaed volume of water has passed through the filter. If your water is generally clean, you can go a week or so past the "expiration" date. These filters are more expensive than Brita filters for pitchers, but I believe Pur is still catching more bad stuff.
Finally, there are no "silver oxide pellets" in Brita filters. Don't take my word for it: check their website for proof. In fact, Brita specifically says it does not filter out sodium, the primary "hard" component of hard water.
So make your choice by visiting each website, and seeing the list of harmful impurities and organisms filtered out; also check micron-sizes of filter elements and filter pores; and lastly, see which company has technology across the entire spectrum of filtration needs. You'll probably be shopping for a Pur 10-pack soon enough...
Customer Review: Costly, but worth it (Price comparison with Brita)
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm currently a college student living with 5 other guys and we use Brita filter at the apartment. When you cook with Brita filter, you can't taste a thing, but when you just drink the water, it taste like tap/toilet water. It also leaves those black stuff (part of the filter) on the bottom of the container. Personally, that's just weird and nasty, but maybe people like eating those filter-particles.
Back at home, my family use Pur water filter and I have to say, you can definitely taste the difference. I think that the water filtered by Pur taste like Fiji water. It's awesome. Instead of buying those ridiculously-good-looking bottled Fiji water, I bought huge water containers and take water filtered from home to my school apartment and just drink it myself.
The only downside of Pur water filter is that it costs more than Brita filter. Being an Economics major, I calculated the cost of water per gallon (filtered). With each filter (Pur or Brita), it filters 40 gallons of water. Pur cost $24.99 for a 3-pack (Amazon.com), this means that it costs $.208 to filter a gallon of water (excluding the cost of water itself). Brita filter cost $15.99 for a 3-pack (Amazon.com), this means that it costs $.133 to filter a gallon of water (36% cheaper than Pur). Although it costs more, I still think it's worth the money. I rather spend the extra $.075 per gallon of water than to drink toilet water.
Customer Review: A new design flaw w/ particles
Summary: 4 Stars
I like the Pur table-top pitchers and the water quality and I did not mind it when they removed the indicator a few years back. But the latest batch I received has been redesigned and has a new problem.
These filters have paper filter in the bottom and a thick layer of black (carbon) and white globular medium above it, held in place with a fiber/foam disc.
Until the latest versions the disc was not held in place well and could move, releasing some of the filter material. But the top blue portion had very tiny slits and the material could not come out the filters. The latest ones have much larger openings and holes on top for improved water flow and they attempt to fix the loose disc problem by adding some tabs that holds the fiber/foam disc in place. Except there is always some loose filter medium in there to being with and the initial rinsing has never gotten rid of all of them for me. Now I have to rinse the filters a lot more often at the beginning, have loose (albeit very few) material in top portion of my pitcher, and have to watch out that they don't go to lower half of the pitcher when I change the filter.
I'm nor sure if the material is dangerous to ingest or not and there is only few of them, but I certainly don't like them being able to escape into the water now.
Customer Review: Disappointment
Summary: 2 Stars
I wanted a replacement water filter for my PUR pitcher. The product I was using looked identical to the replacement box and filter in your website. However, when I received the product, the box was flimsy and the filters were very much lighter, like the filter did not have the same amount of filter or some part of the filter was missing. I guess these are what is called "gray" products. The price was cheaper than what I paid in the past at Target, but I just assumed that it was a promotion. The advertisement said if you order it by a certain time/date, you can get the product at this special price. It was a little difficult to see the catalog number on the box in the picture, but it seemed to be the same. As I pointed out above, when I did receive the product, it turned out just to be a substandard or different product. I should have known better but my guard was down because I had nothing but positive experience with Amazon. Amazon should display the catalog number clearly and do whatever is necessary for each of these products so that the purchaser would know exactly what they are ordering. I am very cautious about online ordering, but have been more willing to order online. I feel like this is a step backward for me.Customer Review: Does not work with PUR200
Summary: 1 Stars
Original Review(12/25/06): I ordered 11 boxes of these and confirmed before ordering from PUR200 product manual that it will work. PUR200 came with the filter which has a red indicator that moves as you consume water/filter. I bought this knowing that this filter (CRF-950Z) does *not* have the red indicator. However after putting the filters in, the top water bucket does not seat properly. These filters are about .25 inch taller than the one with red indicator.
This is a major inconvenience and really is the fault of PUR. They should specify the PUR water coolers this filter will work in. It may very well work fine in filters where it will fit properly.
Update 12/27/2006: I called 800-PUR-LINE and just spoke to Procter & Gamble about this issue. They said they are aware of this problem and CRF-950Z will not fit water cooler(and likely any water cooler) made by KAZ(PUR200, PUR300). They also mentioned that they dont know how long it will be before this problem is rectified. In effect, there are no filters available for this unit right now. One has to wonder about the quality control at PG/KAZ. At least these guys should issue a product recall on this.