Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Truly a great unit at a great price. My tap water is pushing 1000 TDS some days and this unit brings it down below 60 currently. We go through a lot of water in our house and lugging in a 5 gallon jug every 3 days was getting absurd. I would have made this purchase so much sooner if I knew how reasonable the prices were. We are military and that means we move around a lot and historically everywhere we have been and could go in the future has awful tap water. Its technically "safe to drink" per the EPA but truly is any arsenic safe to drink? I personally don't like the acceptable levels of contaminates that the EPA sets for safe drinking water and I do not trust that the manufacturers of bottled water really care about me and my family all that much either. So you get to take your health into your own hands with this. There's no marketing or hype involved in this system. Its simple physics that proves to me that this system is the best option for my family and I couldn't trust it any more to keep us healthy. Even though we move around this is such an easy system to install I don't mind installing it every 3 years into a new house. They sell replacement parts very cheap on their website so if anything gets broken its not a big deal either. Ideally I can time the filters out so that when we move it will be close to the end of life for the filters in the unit I can throw out all of the filter and start with a fresh batch of filters in each new house to make it simpler. If it doesn't work out perfectly the filters are cheap enough that I don't mind tossing a few before I have gotten all the life out of it. Its a small price to pay for our health. Setup was a breeze. The directions are simple and really leave nothing up for guessing. I would recommend a crows foot attachment for a socket if you have one as it makes installing the faucet so much easier, if not its still easy enough but having the right tools makes things just that much easier. That's not a fault of iSpring or these types of systems as a whole, that's just the reality of working on plumbing under a sink. Space is limited and faucets are in a hard to reach place but you only need to to one or two things behind the sink and the rest you can do on the floor in front of the sink and put it all in the sink after the hoses are all hooked up. I purchased some 1/4 inch tubing from Lowes to attach to the output after the 3rd filter right before the RO membrane so that I could have the other end in the sink to flush out the first three filters until the water ran clear before hooking up the rest of the filters and forcing the membrane to try and filter out all of the new filter charcoal dust. I would definitely recommend people do that also. Trying to use a bowl to flush the water into is not fun and they fill up fast. I spent 2 dollars on about 15 feet of hose which will be useful to have as backup if something happens to any of the hoses that it came with. If you follow all the instructions and recommendations the directions set forth than you should have no issues setting it up and having no leaks. The push to connect fittings are amazing and work great. if you aren't sure if you pushed the hose in far enough than take it out and try again and pay attention to how far it goes in. After you see how far the first one goes in you will get the hang of the rest and knowing if it is in all the way or not. I attached some pictures so people can get an idea of how little room the filters take up when you hang it on the inside wall. The tank takes up a little room but I didn't keep much back that far into the sink anyways since its so hard to reach things back there.