Welcome to the Culligan US-EZ Under Sink Filter Video Page. The Culligan US-EZ filter system produces healthy, better-tasting drinking and cooking water. Designed for under sink installation, the RC-EZ replacement cartridge has a twist-on, twist-off design to make filter changes truly easy. The Culligan US-EZ is NSF certified.
Culligan US-EZ Under Sink Filter Video Transcript
Hey everyone; Aquaman here with
Water Wisdom sponsored by Water Filters.NET. Today’s product is the Culligan US-EZ Series. I have the
Culligan US-EZ-1 here in front of me, and I’ll explain how this system will receive a couple of other cartridges from the US-EZ line. Why don’t we start by looking at what’s inside the box.
The Culligan US-EZ-1 is a drinking water system that’s designed for under sink installation. See, we’ll pull this off here, and there are some basic things. Looks like we’re going to leave these behind, we’ve got some water line and it looks like a fitting designed to tap into the cold water line so you can supply water to the system. And like I was saying, this is designed to go underneath your sink and supply water to this dedicated drinking water faucet. We have this faucet base here, and the neck of the faucet, and these just simply attach together like so. This comes down and tah dah there we go, we have our faucet. Now the nice thing about the US-EZ series is that this valve head assembly is a quick change valve assembly. In other words, this filter cartridge is self contained. There’s no housing or anything like that. This cartridge simply screws up into the underside of this valve head.
This entire system utilizes what are called quick connect fittings. This is not really new technology, but it’s newer than the old school compression fitting technology. It’s a system where you simply take a naked water line and stab it into the fitting with no special attachments. Just a naked water line; the fitting is integrated. It’s hard to see here I’m sure, but there is an integrated fitting for the in and for the out, and you literally just stab the water line in and it stays, and it’s a really easy technology to use. So you don’t need special tools. And that’s the great thing, that’s probably why they called it the EZ series, because it’s easy. You simply attach this valve head to the side of the cabinet with screws and then screw the cartridge up inside, and that’s it. Water in, water out up to your faucet, and you’ve got clean filtered water. Now the nice thing about the US-EZ series; there are 3 cartridges available. There’s the
RC-EZ-1, then there’s
RC-EZ-3 and there’s
RC-EZ-4. Now I’ve got those cartridges here today. The level 3 is going to look a lot like the level 1 cartridge, as you can see, but it is rated for more contaminants to be removed from the water. So depending on what you are looking for, the level 1 will give you just real basic
chlorine taste and odor removal. You’re just looking for water to be better tasting, then level 1 is all you need, but if you are looking for some more specific contaminants to be removed, then the level 3 is rated for chlorine, of course, but then there’s
lead, microorganisms,
Atrazine and
Lindane, which are pesticides and herbicides, and that’s not going to be something you’ll remove with the level 1 cartridge.
Then taking it a step further, they have the level 4 cartridge. Now obviously this is much beefier, but amazingly the system up here is designed to still fit into the same valve head. So, you can upgrade; you could buy the level 1 set up and if something changed with your water and you needed higher contaminant removal, or if you just bought the level 1 just so you could get into the system and then decided later, you know I really want more contaminant removal from my system. You can upgrade to the level 4 cartridge. Now obviously there is a great deal more media in here, so you are getting more contact time; the water is having more contact time with the media, and you’re getting better overall contaminant removal. Included in this one, in addition to the lead and microorganisms which were already on the level 3, you’re also getting heavy metal removal of
mercury and VOC’s, that’s volatile organic compounds, and there are literally dozens and dozens of chemical combinations that are VOC’s, and then also
chloramines. Now chloramines are interesting. Municipalities use chlorine to kill microorganisms like
E-coli. In some parts of the country now, they’re unable to kill all the microorganisms with chlorine alone, so they add ammonia, and when ammonia and chlorine combine, the byproduct is chloramines. It is a very nasty, highly cancer causing chemical that you do not want to drink. It’s likely if you have chloramines in your water supply, you’ve been notified by your local municipality, because they are required to let you know that by law. So, that will remove chloramines, and also it will remove MTBE’s, which is methyl-tertiary-butyl-ether. It’s a byproduct of fuel production. So, if you’re living on well water somewhere where there is an oil refinery or where they’re otherwise making fuel, there’s a possibility that the groundwater is getting contaminated with some MTBE’s. Of course this is something you can test for and know for sure, and then you’re going to want the better quality filter, like this level 4 filter.
What a slick system. Buy the level 1 filter; get yourself into the system with all the equipment, and then later on if you decide you need higher levels of contaminant removal you can upgrade. Slick little system, easy to use, that’s why they call it the US-EZ series. I’m your host Aquaman and thanks for watching.
See detailed specifications and purchase the US-EZ-4 here.
See detailed specifications and purchase the US-EZ-1 here.
