Home Master CFF2E-10 Activated Alumina/GACC/KDF85 Fluoride 10"x 3" Replacement Filter, 1 Count (Pack of 1), F2 Elite

I bought the counter top unit from the manufacturer last year when Amazon ran out. I now buy the replacement filters from Amazon—the Home Master CFF2E-F10 Jr Elite Water Replacement Filter. It filters everything I don’t want in my water, including the combination of Chloramine.The filter life is six months, and during that time the water comes out chemical free and great tasting. I stopped buying bottled water, as this filter gives the same quality as commercial filtered water (my opinion). For the money it’s a great value and has saved me hundreds of dollars now that I don’t need water delivered. I highly recommend it.For aquarium owners, it’s known Chloramine kills fish, so while this filter may produce water safe enough for use in aquariums, do check with the manufacturer to be sure before you use it for that purpose.

I've had this water system for about a year and it has worked great. Easy installation and the water definitely tastes cleaner. Where I live the tap water smells and tastes heavily chlorinated. In using the Home Master System to filter the water I can smell and taste the difference, no chlorine. Replacing the filter came with slight difficulty in that it took some effort to unscrew the cap from the bottom stand. However to me this means there is a good seal. I have never had any issue with leaks.

I purchased this filter as I already had a similar housing for this type of filter, a Watts model maybe (The housing says "Filtramax" on bottom of base). I only have this one stage filter for my drinking water, would like to get a three or four stage filtration system as finances allow. By itself, with this filter, the water tastes better than it did with previous filter, previous filter was not as good as this as far as removing flouride. Purchased another.Perhaps due to this flouride filter, I've been having, and better remembering, my lucid dreams. Still need to cut GMO crap like pizzas from my diet..This flouride filter fit well inside the Filtramax housing. The previous filter had a rubber o-ring at each end, and i had to keep one or both in there to make this new filter fit in tightly. For the first minute the water comes out gray, it states in instructions to let it run for a few minutes, or a few gallons, cannot remember details but one should always read instructions first!

Ok, reviews for this thing are all over the place. Here's my attempt to cut through the confusion.It's a ten inch cartridge filter, with a gasket at one end, and an inlet port at the other.Unlike ordinary pleated filters, the water doesn't pass into the housing, then through the pleating, then out the exit. Instead, it flows from the ungasketed end to the gasketed end, then out. This gives the water more filter time as it passes lengthwise through the whole cartridge.So far, so good. Now for the interesting stuff.Installation should be with the rubber gasket pointed at the inlet/outlet side of the filter holder so the filtered water can exit, NOT at the end of the bell housing.Here's the IMPORTANT caveat I discovered: you may want to invert your filter assembly if it's a typical whole house filter!In the original application, the black end faced down, apparently. And, apparently it matters.The carbon and the white parts of this filter are simply loose powder. Installed black side up, when water flows it raises the contents and when it quits they sink again. In effect, you fluff the whole filter every time you turn the water flow on and off. This effect is magnified by pressure. We kept getting a white cloud every time the faucet was opened and the filter gradually mixed black and white parts together.Solution: Flip the whole filter housing so the black part points down, as well as at the end of the housing that has the fittings.Installed with gravity on your side, as in black down, bell housing up, water pressure simply packs the filter material into place. Shortly, the filter settles and does its job.Hope this is helpful!

I don't have overwhelming evidence that these filters that I've been buying for nearly 3 years are effective, so I'll mention the points of why I use this filtering system instead.I had been using a well-known "pitcher system" which requires buying filter after filter until I discovered that fluoride, which is a common additive in "town" water, plugs itself into the body's receptors meant for iodine. That alone was enough to warrant avoiding municipal water but I needed something better to remove the fluoride as Home Master purports to do along with chlorine and other chemicals.Since I use water kefir "grains" (assorted beneficial bacteria) to make my own probiotic I was buying spring water to avoid the chemicals that might kill my little guys. Even though I noticed no chlorine odor from Home Master-filtered water I made the switch to it for them gradually and now use it exclusively and add my own beneficial minerals instead. The fact that my little guys are doing just fine tells me that the filter is doing its job and I have the peace of mind that I've eliminated dangerous bromines from my water. Proof of the latter is that I no longer have an iodine-deficiency disease.I started with a counter top filter and then switched to an under-counter mount using their kit, along with a small stainless steel faucet in the hole in the sink provided for a sprayer, and couldn't be happier. I've improved the quality of my drinking and cooking water, no longer have to keep multiple filters on hand, and the little faucet at the sink is very convenient and much nicer than a bulky pitcher.