Originally purchased the cheap ones BIG mistake. They cracked within a year and had to throw them away. These will be hear for years and years.

so far so good

High quality construction.

This is a great item, beautiful quality and well worth the expense. Also the one I received was made in the good old USA, despite the made in China online description.

We are on city water, which is very good quality from a good source but just has a little iron scale in it from the century plus old water mains. Our problem other than just a little iron scale and particulates is that we are in the lower elevation part of the city and the water pressure is about 120 psig!! Great for filling the washer, bath tub in very little time but not so good if there is a leak as happened to our last plastic filter housing that was rated for 125 psig. It was the second one to fail in 12 years. Each time it was the bypass valve assembly and this last time my wife urgently woke me up at 4:00 am to say there was a lot of water in our basement. Not the way I like to start Monday morning.

Enough of the plastic filter housings with failing valve seals. This unit is perfect. It is rated for 300 psig and made of sanitary grade stainless steel. It has no moving parts. Simple is always better. You do not need a bypass to change the filter. But you will need one more piece of inexpensive hardware - an ingenious ball drain valve. I'm very handy so I installed the Aqua Pure SST1HA myself and also installed a lead free brass 3/4" Webstone 40613W NSF-61/G rated ball drain valve. I installed this valve downstream of the Aqua Pure filter housing.

So now the only thing I have to do to change the filter is turn off the main water supply valve coming into the house and one simple turn of the Webstone valve isolates the rest of the house AND relieves the water pressure in the filter. Perfect! I use the Aqua pure 1 micron filter which is an extremely fine efficient filter and still gives 8 gallons per minute flow rate and has a recommended replacement interval of 6 months, depending on your water quality. Changing the filter is easy, unscrew the flange ring with the short rod wrench that is supplied, change the filter and tighten the flange ring. This is a much more robust and secure design than the plastic screw in housing which could be over tightened and leak.

Even if our water pressure was not so high (and I could have installed a pressure reducing valve except I like the higher pressure) I think I would still buy this.

Webstone valve: [...] Make sure you get the lead free NSF rated valve.

P.S. If you are looking to further leak proof the house, I highly recommend Flood Check washing machine hoses. The department store hoses are garbage, we had a flood from a failed hose too.

I hope this is helpful.

Great product. No problems with water pressure.