Although most people have never heard of Cuno water filters many of you have heard the brand name of their water filtration products. Some of you may even own this company’s water filters, and still have no idea that the company exists. That is really all secondary though, as what we are going to do is see just how their water filters truly stack up to the competition.

These water purifiers stack up competitively with other water filters in most of the categories of contaminants effectively blocked, but it doesn’t match the performance of the top brands in a few key areas. This has to do with the percentage of contaminants blocked as compared to the top rated purification system in the ten system comparison.

When you compare Cuno water filters to the number one water it falls short in five of the 11 contaminant categories. This appliance blocks two percent less chlorine, four percent less lead, it was seven percent lower on THMs, and does not block MTBE at all. These are all very serious lapses in protection that you can’t afford to have when trying to keep your family healthy.

All of the contaminants in our water supply pose a threat to our health, but of the five categories where the company’s filters fell short this is especially true. A water purification system that cannot effectively block these impurities should not even be considered for use in your home.

It is obvious that Cuno water filters are not good filters to have when they allow carcinogens such as chlorine, toxic metals, methane and chloroform gas, and poisonous gasoline additives into the water that your children drink. Then there is the cost of the appliance itself, the replacement filters, and the overall cost of use per gallon.

The cost of these filters is a little extravagant for a filter that doesn’t effectively remove all of the contaminants from your drinking water. When you compare their asking price of $349 with the $125 sale price of the number rated filter it simply doesn’t make sense. Why would anyone in their right mind pay so much more for less?

The Cuno water filters replacement cartridges are more reasonable than most at $79.99. These cartridges will last through 625 gallons which means that they cost you 13 cents for every gallon of water used. The highest rated water filter features $48.00 cartridges that are good for 500 gallons or about 9.6 cents for every gallon of water used.

I think that you can see a pattern forming here. These filters lose in just about every major category to the number one rated water purification system. You can clearly see why that system leaves all of the others behind in not only performance, but in cost as well.

If your shopping for a n effective purification system for your home it would be a good idea to make sure that the product that you are thinking of buying is not manufactured by Cuno water filters.