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: 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.
Customer Review: Easy to install and works great!
Summary: 5 Stars
I learned that taking showers actually causes cancer due to the chlorine becoming vaporized (and you breathe that in). I started taking showers with the shower door cracked but that leaked out heat and water. This showerhead virtually eliminates the steam that used to come out of my old showerhead and the water just "feels" better.
I hesitated to order any new showerhead because I thought that it was going to be hard to install correctly. Fortunately it was absolutely simple to install! Just unscrew your current showerhead and screw this one on. I put a little plumber's tape (like a white rubbery plastic tape) on the nozzle threads before I screwed the new showerhead on but this step probably isn't necessary. Installed in about 2 minutes and works great.
Customer Review: Better Skin in DC
Summary: 5 Stars
I NEVER write reviews, but this one is worth a couple minutes of my time. I live in DC where we have the oldest pipes in the country, literally. My skin hated it when i moved here... until I got this. I'm a little worried about not knowing exactly when to put in the refill, but that's a very minor concern for such an improvement! Love it.