Culligan FM-15RA Level 3 Faucet Filter Replacement Cartridge

by Culligan

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The Culligan FM-15RA is a replacement filter cartridge for the Culligan FM-15A faucet-mount filter system. This filter helps reduce odor, lead, chlorine taste, cryptosporidium, and giardia cysts. The filter has a life of up to two months or 200 gallons.

Product Details

• Item Weight: 4 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00006WNMJ
• Item model number: FM-15RA
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (176 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12 in Home Improvement (See Top 100 in Home Improvement)
  • #1 in Home Improvement > Kitchen & Bath Fixtures > Water Filtration & Softeners > Replacement Filters

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

38 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Water Faucet Filter That Actually Works!, November 8, 2009

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M. Schnitzer (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Culligan FM-15RA Level 3 Faucet Filter Replacement Cartridge (Kitchen)

The Brita faucet filter does an excellent job of filtering out impurities from tap water -- that is, when it manages to stay attached to the faucet. However, in my experience with it (two years and two different models), a tremendous amount of my valuable time was wasted trying to reattach the filter after it would repeatedly fall off. Although I have no direct experience with the Pur faucet filter, my understanding (drawn from other reviews) is that it suffers from the same problem.

Happily, after purchasing the CULLIGAN Faucet Filter several months ago, I can now report with confidence that it is plagued by no such similar defect. In other words, once attached, it remains firmly in place, and works every bit as effectively as rival brands. So for anyone who has tried those other brands and encountered endless frustration in endeavoring to keep them attached to the faucet, my advice is: Don't give up just yet! Try the Culligan model. It's solidly built, competitively priced, and replacement cartridges are readily available from Amazon. For me, at least, the Culligan at last put an end to the gratuitous, time-wasting burden of having to continually reattach a recalcitrant water filter.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great filter if you follow this little bit of advice..., September 27, 2009

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Jonathan Birge (Cambridge, MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Culligan FM-15RA Level 3 Faucet Filter Replacement Cartridge (Kitchen)

At first, I did experience what a few of the other reviewers mentioned: after a short while the filter didn't appear to have any affect on the taste of the water.

The problem, I discovered, is that if you run the water through the filter too quickly (by opening up the tap all the way) the charcoal filter just can't do its job. As a rule of thumb, only allow enough flow through the filter so that it takes about 10-15 seconds to fill up a glass of water, and you'll have great tasting water. So, if you have high water pressure, make sure you don't open of the faucet all the way when filling a glass. There's just no way a filter as small as this can do its job properly at the max flow rate of most faucets. You really need a large in-line filter for that.

Note that this only applies to the filter's odor and taste removal properties, because this involves a chemical reaction of sorts where activated charcoal pulls chlorine (and other chemical) out of the water by binding to them. This is a completely different mechanism than what you normally associate with filtering, such as particles being caught in a mesh (which is essentially how the rest of the filter works in these, and so it's really only the odor and taste that is affected by the rate at which you let water through the Cullgan).

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Do Not Buy More Than One At A Time, August 13, 2010

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Richard Pabst "Engineer/Tutor" (Framingham, MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Culligan FM-15RA Level 3 Faucet Filter Replacement Cartridge (Kitchen)

Buy one at a time, and not too far in advance. Filter works well, but Culligan only warrants for 30 days from date of purchase. If you buy several (as I did) and one is defective (spurting water all over kitchen!), no real way to obtain a replacement.