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Doulton Countertop UltraCarb Water Filter Today’s product is the Doulton W9331032
Countertop Filter System. Now those of you that have been looking for
a countertop system, you may be discouraged because there are a lot of units out there
available for that application, but many of them are, well, to be kind, less than wonderful
quality. That is not going to be a problem with the
Doulton product that I have in front of me here today. Doulton is a company that’s
been around for over fifty years and they make really high quality equipment.
It’s made from 100% BPA free, non-leaching plastic. The entire system is NSF Standard
42 certified, that’s for materials, and also the more stringent NSF Standard 53, which
relates to health related claims. Because the system claims to remove microorganisms,
heavy metals, VOC’s, pesticides, herbicides and a very long list of contaminants.
So this unit attaches to your faucet using this diverter valve, which is then turned
on and off to supply water to the system, and then the water obviously comes out of
this spigot to supply whatever you’re filling. Faucets vary dramatically. There was a day
when all faucets had the same type and size of threads. That doesn’t happen anymore,
there are many different thread types on faucets, so they send these adaptors with, but it’s
not a 100% mortal lock that you’re going to get the right adaptor with the system that
fits your faucet. There’s a good chance of it, but there’s a slim chance that you’ll
need to purchase a separate adaptor for your faucet to attach to this diverter valve. So
be prepared for that just in case that happens. This is the cartridge that goes inside of
this system. This is an ultracarb ceramic cartridge. It’s a three stage filter; the
outer layer is a ceramic, a very tight porosity, .02 micron ceramic. It’s also silver impregnated,
silver is an antibacterial so bacteria and microorganisms cannot live and grow on this
media. The nice thing about ceramic is that it’s washable. Now periodically you can
remove the filter and take a green Scotchbrite and clean it off, rinse it under water and
clean it off, and then put it back in and use it further.
The second stage of filtration, inside the ceramic is a layer of activated carbon. Now
carbon removes a variety of contaminants and also makes your water taste great. And then
in the center of all of that is a layer of deionizing resin, and that’s going to remove
the heavy metals and some of the other more high level contaminants that are not captured
by the ceramic or the carbon. So what you’re looking at here is an extremely
high quality, very, very good filter. I dare you to find a countertop system that removes
as many contaminants, without going to a reverse osmosis system. The problems with RO systems
for countertop are many, they’re big, they’re bulky and it’s a much more complicated form
of filtration. It’s necessary in some situations, but if you don’t have to go there, this
system is going to remove nearly as many contaminants; it’s a very high end filter system.
So I want to install this filter for you and show you just how easy this is. There’s
really nothing to it, remove the sump and you can see the O-ring here, and then the
cartridge itself has threads and an O-ring that screw into the base. Just very quickly
attach the filter, I don’t want to over tighten it, and I can feel the O-ring squeaking
there. Then the sump, and hand tight only, and we’re in business. Connect it to the
faucet, turn the diverter valve on or off and send water through the system for extremely
pure and very good tasting water.