Product Description

Model No. FM15R replacement taste, odor, and sediment filter cartridge reduces 99% lead, 99.95% cryptosporidium and giardia cyst, chlorine, bad taste and odor, and sediment. Filter life up to 2 months or 200 gallon. Use with model No. FM 15 filter.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #34 in Home Improvement
• Brand: Culligan
• Model: FM-15RA
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .25 pounds

Features

• Quick and easy replacement
• Reduces unpleasant odor
• Improves water taste
• Reduces lead, chlorine taste and odor, Cryptosporidium and Giardia cysts
• Filter life of up to 200-Gallons

From the Manufacturer
The Culligan FM-15RA is a replacement filter cartridge for the Culligan FM-15A faucet-mount filter system. This filter helps reduce unpleasant odor, improves taste, reduces lead and reduces chlorine taste and odor, cryptosporidium and giardia cysts. The filter has a life of up to 200-Gallons.

Customer Reviews

Better than brita
I love the culligan water systems. The base that the cartridge goes into is made better than britas,With brita I was buying a new base with almost every cartridge change and culligan is superior in price ,quality and every other aspect.And I think the water also taste better than water that is filtered using brita.Try it and see for yourself

slowest filter around
The Culligan filter is more reliable and lasts longer than the Pur or the GE filters but it is also the slowest filter in terms of water flow.

FM-15RA inconsistent with FM-15R - please advise!
Hi, perhaps someone can resolve my confusion.

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I just purchased some FM-15RA replacement filters. In the past, I used to get the FM-15R models which were made in USA (not China like these newfangled 15RA ones).

Anyway, in the past, I'd found that some of the FM-15R ones would gush (rather than flow), so I phoned Culligan in mid 2008, and after LOTS of hassle, reached a guy who actually knew something.

He asked me to check whether any of the holes are black rather than white. He said that all the holes need to be white NOT black to filter well.

Sure enough, the ones which gushed had some black holes, so he sent replacements which all had pure white at the holes.

Anyway, now I received the ones made in China, which seem like junk, since they're lighter weight than the USA ones. Note i still have the USA ones, so i could compare.

Also, in the past, the USA ones did not emit what looks like vapor/smoke (probably the charcoal), upon screwing in & trying out for the first time. But the Chinese-made one DOES cause vapor/smoke (charcoal) to emit - which gives me the creeps, because it reminds me of when I erroneously poured Drano down the drain & it emitted similar vapor & hissed toxicly for a long time afterward to the extent that the clog-fixer-guy said it might have caused corrosion of pipes.

But above all:

I'm really baffled now, because these newfangled Chinese made FM-15-RA's all have greyish-black at the holes, rather than white. Yet the one I just now tried is not gushing (despite the blackish holes). Rather, it's flowing.

This is inconsistent with what the Culligan guy had told me regarding the FM-15R. Because going according to him, these newfangled ones ought to be gushing since the holes are not pure white, but rather greyish black??!!

So what am I to believe?