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Brita Maxtra Filter Cartridges x 3
by trayrope A couple of years ago I purchased a Brita water filter and a set of six replacement Brita Maxtra cartridges. When the first six cartridges ran out I continued to buy Brita Maxtra cartridges. I now buy the cartridges in boxes of three from amazon.co.uk as they always seem to have the best prices; they are currently selling a ... pack of three for £7.89 + £4.59 postage or a pack of four for £13.89 with free delivery. I feel that just over a pound a week is a good price to pay for fresh tasting filtered water, especially when it can cost nearly a pound for a one litre bottle of water in shops. The cartridges come individually wrapped in the box to keep them fresh. Cartridges need changing every four weeks to ensure you get the best tasting water; I sometimes change mine early if I can taste chlorine in my filtered water. To change the cartridge you just pull the old one out using the little ring pull centred on top. Wrap the old cartridge in a bag to be recycled at Argos or Tesco. Wash out the filter jug and lid, then fill the jug with fresh cold water, plunge the new cartridge into the water and wiggle around till all the air bubbles have been expelled. Then discard the water and put the filter into the cradle in the jug, push it down till it makes a small click and then reassemble the jug. Fill the jug with water from the tap and allow the water to filter through, discard this water and repeat the process. You can then have lovely filtered water for up to four weeks. I feel every home should use a water filter of some sort, even though we have clean water on tap in Britain there is still chlorine added to the water and metals such as lead and copper can become present in the water supply from the pipes. I use filtered water whenever I use water for cooking or to make a hot or cold drink. The Maxtra cartridges reduce the limescale content in the water, therefore reducing the amount of limescale that can get inside your kettle or steamer, and anything that prolongs the life of my electrical appliances is good in my book. I also feel that tea and coffee tastes and looks better when using filtered water. I drink more water now as I think the water tastes a lot fresher and crisper when it has been filtered. The cartridges have a four part filtration system, first of all the water flows through a fine mesh, the next step is ion filtration, this is where the water travels through a chemical that removes limescale, lead and copper. The third step is a carbon filter that removes chlorine and any pesticides that may of sneaked into the tap water and the final step is another fine mesh filter. Happily with all that filtering it still only takes just over a minute to filter a litre of water, which is no time at all. I am exceptionally happy with the Brita Maxtra filters and heartily recommend them, I have never had a problem with one in all the time I have used them. Thank you for reading xx (This review may appear elsewhere) Read the complete review |
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Brita Maxtra Filter Cartridges x 3
by karlsm93 One of the very useful wedding presents we received several years ago was a Brita Water Filter Jug, which we make use of on a daily basis. The jug that we own actually gives us an indicator of when we need to change the filter to ensure we are getting the best tasting, cleanest and purest water, and it ends up that we need to change the ... filter every four weeks or so. The filters that are required for our particular Brita jug are the maxtra cartridges which are slightly more expensive than the normal brita filter cartridges. I often buy this 3 pack which recently cost me £9 in Tesco, but I have in the past bought the pack of 4 maxtra cartridges from amazon, especially when they are a good price. These maxtra cartridges are essential if you want to have the clean, clear water that you probably purchased the jug for. These cartridges are meant to reduce limescale, chlorine as well as other impurities to ensure you are getting the best filtered water. They also claim to produce great tasting water, much nice than that from the tap, as welllas making your hot beverages such as tea or coffee taste even better. In terms of being economic, I do find them to be an expensive purchase at the time, but when you weigh up the cost of buying bottled water as part of your weekly shop, and then a buying a pack of three of these which will last you around 3 months, there probably isn't a lot of difference, and in fact, when it comes down to it, this is probably still cheaper. Brita also suggests that you use their filtered water to cook your food in, and I have to say that I do always use it when cooking vegetables, although boiling the water will remove the impurities anyway. Another claim of Brita is that it prolongs the life of your domestic appliances by 'preventing limescale build up' which I woul have to say there is probably some truth in. When the maxtra cartridge has reached its monthly usage, we clean out the jug and replace the filter, which is very easy to do. Each filter comes individually wrapped in the box. Despite it seeming to be a costly expenditure at the time, when we have to use tap water to drink on the odd occasion, you really do notice a huge difference in the taste, and it is then that we are very glad that we use these maxtra filter cartridges to ensure we have the nicer tasting water. With all the health worries and claims that surround us nowadays, and the truth that you really don't know what is in the water in your area at times, it is reassuring and worth paying the money to know that you are giving your family and yourself the best water around, filtered, clean and clear, by using these maxtra cartridges. Read the complete review |
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Brita Maxtra Filter Cartridges x 3
by Bokkie Firstly - I have already reviewed the Brita Fjord Cool Water Jug, and included a bit about the Maxtra cartidges in that - as the cartidges essentially make the Jug, without them you are paying for an expensive and oddly designed Water Jug - so I ask that people do not flag me up for copying if my opinions about the Brita Maxtra Filter ... Cartridges x 3 are similar to those expressed about the Brita Fjord Cool - (Bokkie [ie Me], Good at what it does - Holds and Filters water Brita Fjord Cool 2011). Secondly - I know it appears on the Brita kettles section, but the Maxtra Cartridge are the same for jugs and kettles 'Having grown up in a relatively rural town in South Africa and having lived in rural Spain, and drank the tap water with no problems, I find owning a water filter jug a tad pretentious' - (Bokkie [ie Me], Good at what it does - Holds and Filters water Brita Fjord Cool 2011); I include this as I want to amend it slightly - pretentious is unfair, I find water filter jugs (and water filters) a bit of a unnessary expense most of the time. I, however, own a Brita Jug, and regularily buy filters, due to been able to taste the difference in coffee when using hard / unfiltered water; as such I can understand the need for owning and using Water Filters if people can taste the difference between unfiltered and filtered water. The Price- I find myself purchasing Maxtra Cartridges fairly regularily now I own Brita Fjord Cool Water Jug - granted this is only in comparision to when I did not buy any because I had no reason to - and personally I find that you do actually get a better price per Cartridge when buying the 6 packs, as opposed to this product which is a 3 pack. For example, having just done a quick Google Shopping Search, 3 packs retail at between £14 and £25 (which is between £4.66 and £8.33 a cartridge) wereas 6 packs retails at between £17 and £25 (which is between £2.83 and £4.15 a cartridge); personally I buy them for £22 from Tesco Direct - apparently a 'Special Offer', but it has been available nearly everytime I have gone to purchse them. As a little side note - they are quite large, but buying 6 rather than 3 does not take up much more room so don't be put off buying in bulk because of size. They are expensive but, as I will explain further along, they are worth it. The Cartridge itself- Apparently the Maxtra Cartridges use a four stage filtration - 1. Intensive Pre-Filtration, 2. Ion Exchange Filtration, 3. Activated Carbon Filtration, 4. Intensive Final Filtration (Brita, http://www.brita.net/uk/maxtrafiltration.html?L=1) - and, though I don't understand / or care how it works, I do believe that it makes all the difference / I believe that it works well. As I have previously said - though I cannot taste the difference between filtered water and tap water, the difference is evident to me when the two waters are used for brewing coffee. Water filtered through Maxtra Cartridges really do get rid of the hard water taste that previously ruined my coffee. Installing the cartridges into a Water Jug could not be easier, in my opinion - 'simply twist the old one off, submerge the new one in water and shake until the bubbles stop, twist it on, and do two or three runs of 1.5litres (using the same water for each run if you are an environmentalist)' (Bokkie [ie Me], Good at what it does - Holds and Filters water Brita Fjord Cool 2011). If it does seem a little daunting, as admittedly it did to me first time (not wanting to break my new purchase), the installation instructions are well covered on the side of the Filter Box, and on the side of each individual filters packaging. In an area of hard water Brita advertises that the cartridges will filter up to 100Ltrs; so each cartridge should last just over a month and a half for the average Household - filtering 2ltrs a day - or will last longer or shorter according to your usage. Most Brita jugs come with a Cartridge Exchange Indicator, which essentially counts down until when it has been programmed to think the average household would need to change cartridges; if you use more or less than average (2Ltrs) - such as myself using only enough for a mug of coffee a day - you will have to keep a mental record of how much of that 100Ltrs you have used, and just ignore the Cartridge Exchange Indicator flashing away to tell you that you should change your cartridge. Environment - A nice little side note about Maxtra Cartridges is that Brita encourages you to recycle them - either by posting them to BRITA Recycling, Freepost TK1917, Sunbury-on-Thames, TW16 5BR or by calling Brita's customer care on 0844 742 4800 to find out where your nearest recycling point is. You can also recycle the box (most Council's run recycling schemes that cover cardboard), however the main let down in this department is that it is near impossible for the average householder to correctly find a way to recycle the individual plastic wrappers around each cartridge. Overall if filtering water is a necessary expense for you, then I recommend you buy Brita Maxtra Filters - as they do outperform the competition, and do exactly what they promise to; I however would recommend you buy the 6 pack rather than the 3 pack though. *As a humourous side note - in the quick rating section I am been asked to rate the 'Picture Quality' and 'Sound Quality' of a Water filter ???? * Read the complete review |
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