Geekpure20 Inch Clear Whole House Water Filter Housing - 1" NPT Brass Port (1)

I have owned two of these items for over a year, and they are just great. When I had this item and a whole home water softener installed by my plumber I put one of these before the water going to my whole home water softener and one installed before my tankless water heater. I am getting more than 1 years use from my water filter. I am on city water in florida but I have noticed a huge difference in not seeing calcium buildup in my dishwasher and shower heads. Plumer though it was over kill - but what price do you put on preventive maintenance? Great product.

I like the size "20"x4.5" for whole house. If you want to clean tap water decently for drinking then you can add the 3 typical filters used for reverse osmosis and then add the membrane, post filters and tank under the sink. I think you can still work it that way, but the whole house would be more sediment free and decently drinkable more then i'd say straight from the city pipes type water which i still think have aftertastes like when we were kids and drank water from a hose lol. So i think most of these will be installed where your hot water tank is as that's usually where the main water supply comes into the house first. I'm using it with a, i'll call it a de-mineralizer filter to lessen sediment and some minerals that tend to block up my tankless heater. But i know the one filter wont do a whole lot but it's better then nothing. My plumber installed only one of these and it was blue plastic, so i'm replacing it with this one with a clear housing so i can see the state of the filter. So overall 5 stars as overall they do help reduce sediment and flavor depending on how many filters you add.

I wanted to love this product, as it’s see through unlike the other filter products.Unfortunately I ignored the other reviews (and YouTube videos) that called out the leaking in the housing head on this specific product. I just thought they didn’t get installed correctly by other people.We just re-plumbed our entire home and nothing leaks… expect these!! We purchased 5 of these and every single one leaks!! Right at the threads on the housing unit, exactly as others described (on Amazon and YouTube).If these didn’t leak… they would be perfect. Not sure what we are going to do, as the whole system is setup and running, and totally plumbed in. For now we just have small leaks in a waterproof room.

Really good build, 6 months in use.

Overall, the filter housings are very heavy duty and nice. However, the brass inserts in the head of the units must not be pressed in square. I bought four of these units and put them together with Heavy duty 1"x1" stainless steel hex pipe nipples. These pipe nipples were very short and strong so they did not contribute to the problem. After assembly the four housings ended up in an arc that resembled teeth in a jack-o-lantern. This exacerbated the next problem with the mounting brackets. The holes in the bracket intended to mount them to he wall are up behind the housing head and can't be accessed if you mount the filter first. The bracket has to be mounted to the wall first. Since the housing were not in a straight line after assembly this made mounting the bracket in the right location almost impossible to line up with the mounting holes for the top of the filters. I ended up having to mount them to a section of treated 2x8 lumber down on the ground, averaging out the arc to try and get them straight and then lifted them all together and anchored the wood to the cement block wall. Quite and ordeal that didn't have to happen if they had first, pressed in the pipe bushing square into the housing and secondly designed the mounting brackets so the the wall mounting holes were accessible below the bottom of the filter housing head. The third problem came when filling the housings. The water was too heavy for the brackets and they sagged down so that the bottom of the filter housings were almost against the wall. They are much too thin o support the weight. They need to be about twice as thick as they are! So in the grand scheme of things, I like the clear housings so I can see the state of my filters, which I think is important for well water and I would buy them again. To help eliminate some of the problems, I would space them out further and use PVC pipe with threaded adapters to allow them to flex slightly, allowing them to be mounted in a straight line. The only thing I can think of to help prevent the sag of the mounting brackets is to mount another board near the bottom to prevent it from angling in toward the wall. he manufacturer should really re-design those for a proper fix that reduces the likely hood of them breaking off a pipe and flooding the house!

No leaks.. what else do you want to know?

After reading the reviews, I went with this product. I am on a deep well, but close to the coast and get a lot of sand. A common comment in the reviews was the threads dont have a consistent seal. I used pipe dope and the "Big Boy" wrench and cranked them all down. No leaks. I also used silicone on the filter o-rings. I added pressure gauges before and after the filters just for my information. The pressure was the same for both gauges at install. I'm curios how much it will drop as the filters run over time. I also added the flushable sediment metal screen filter. I hope to catch the majority of the sand in this before it hits the first large filter. I bought a couple of different size micron metal screens to see which one is best for my water situation.