Drinking Water Test Kit

The pack comes with several tests to run on water as well as a small pamphlet with instructions and charts to compare results against. The Coliform test has its instructions and results printed on the bottle the culture (P/A broth of some sort I assume) comes in. The instructions were easy to follow and given the timing required for each test, one could run through each in one sitting (save for the coliform that takes a couple days to finish). In my particular case, the findings were inconclusive (negative coliform, good ranges for copper, nitrite/nitrate, and all of the 4-in-1 readings). My tap water seems fine to drink but my refrigerator (even after replacing the filter) makes me sick if i drink it or use the ice. My search continues! Oh, the company sends you follow-up e-mails about the product (when it ships, after you get it, etc). This is either heartwarming and endearing or sort of creepy. I haven't decided yet. Good tests, though, this is a solid buy.

Simple to use and provided various tests to check tap water. I bought these tests to check the water at work. I guess I didn’t fully read the description so I was pleasantly surprised when I saw that there were multiple sub tests and that everything is tested individually. I didn’t have to do them all at one time and felt they were reliable tests. I would definitely recommend and have already bought another kit to test the water at my house.

This simple effective home test kit is the first step towards better understanding the quality of your local water supply.

Super easy to use and very accurate. Good quality and good info. I got to check my water quality and found out it was awful. So its very accurate compared to the health departments tests.

It said my tap water has no lead, no copper, no nitrates, no nitrites, has pH of 7-8, and has super high hardness and alkalinity. I have no reason to doubt it. I used the second “3-way” stick to measure water that went through my fridge water filter, and it said the pH went down to ~6 (a little hard to read for the Orange-ish green range) and hardness went down to maybe 100 ppm. The hardness reading makes sense since the water tastes different, but a pH of 6 seems abnormal for drinking water. It makes me doubt the test a little, but I don’t really know. I haven’t done independent research, but according to the instructions, the ranges on all the measurements have decent resolution and tell me accurately whether they are low, high, acceptable, or unacceptable. (Obviously the lead is only pass/fail for 15ppb.) Update: I added pictures of the coliform bacteria test. I accidentally waited 60 hours instead of the 48 the instructions said. I would still expect accurate results after 60 hours, though, but that's not what I got. It's supposed to be purple for clean and yellow for positive for bacteria. I highly doubt our city water has bacteria in it, but the orange color seems closer to yellow than purple. It definitely doesn't match the bright yellow shown in the instructions, though. I would say totally inconclusive. So now I'm supposed to pay for some expensive water test? I thought it was interesting that when I poured the solution into the toilet it turned very purple. Unfortunately, the instructions didn't tell me what color it should be if I pour it in the toilet. Deducting 1 star because I couldn't figure out the results of the bacteria test and 1 star because it seems a little expensive for what you get. But if it was cheaper I’d probably trust the results less.

I got this to evaluate nitrates and sulfates in my drinking water and it is easy to use to evaluate these and other compounds. Not much else to say as it is very functional to use.

Accuracy: Good to knows

The instructions are easy to follow, and the kit is well done. I had mixed results on one of the tests, I took a picture of the test strip and then sent it to the manufacturer for assistance on, and got an immediate response to, which was nice. All in all good experience, and I did the testing, not some salesman trying to sell me a whole house water filter and softener.