Product review (2 stars): 1st one good last 2 bad!!
I totally agree with the review that says these filters are inconsistent! We have well water that tastes like your drinking from a rusty bucket if it's not properly filtered. I had been buying the $50 LG filters bu they would only last me about 2 mos before the metallic taste would start coming back. These were nearly $20 cheaper so I decided to give it a whirl. The filter was fantastic. Not only did the water taste wonderful, but it lasted me about 6 mos!! When I finally needed to replace it, I obviously bought another green filter. This time the water tasted like it hadn't even been filtered. I kept thinking that maybe we had installed it wrong or something so i tried taking it out and re-installing it several times. THen I realized that we had forgotten to submerge it for the 15 mins. so I took it out and did that then reinstalled and ran 3 gallons of water through. Still horrible. So I thought that maybe my failure to submerge in the first place had caused the filter to be defective. I decided to order another (stupid) and do everything the right way from the get-go. That would be the only way to know for sure if it had been user error. NOPE!! I just ordered another and it has done the exact same thing. I followed the instructions, but the water still tastes nasty. Now I am $60 poorer and still have yucky water. Sad.