Drinking Water Test Kit For Home Tap and Well Water - Simple Testing Strips For Lead Copper Bacteria Nitrate Chlorine and More | Made In USA To EPA Standards

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.

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.

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.

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.

We'll first, this is a good kit. simple tests to check a group of important things that could be in the water. The instructions were fairly simple, although you may need to read several times. came in a nice box with all the testing equiptment. The test take very little time with the exception of the coliform test with takes 48 hrs. if I have any issue with this product, it would be the lead testing strips have 2 lines that seem to be hard to see. you have to compare the 2 lines to see if they are positive or negative, this could be little tricky to see the differences between the line. all other test have a color code that are easily seen.

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.

After having no success trying to get our county or state environmental folks interested in testing our drinking water I decided to buy this small kit and test it myself. It arrived quickly and was packaged in a sturdy little box. The instructions were very clear and most of the tests could be done in just a few minutes each. The bacteria test takes a total of two days. With Private labs wanting hundreds of dollars to perform similar tests this seems like a very good bargain.

The test kit was a snap for someone who had some high school lab experience.(50+ yrs. ago) It should be easy enough for most . Careful attention to instructions is necessary. The one test that was inaccurate was the 'hardness' test with a reading at the top of the range when the actual hardness of the sample was nearer 150. It's a really good way to keep the results for later should you need it. BE sure to let tap water run for 10 minutes first to be sure you have a sample of the water rather than your pipes or PVC.