Product Description

The Drinkwell® Cleaning Kit provides product owners with a convenient and easy solution to keep their fountain clean! Now with new, improved, features such as a plastic molded handle, a flared sponge tip for deep cleaning and vinyl wraps to protect the wire shaft from rust. The Cleaning Kit works with all fountains!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #171 in Pet Products
• Size: 1 3/8", 1 5/8", 2" brushes
• Brand: Drinkwell
• Model: CKPH
• Dimensions: 16.88" h x 5.94" w x 3.63" l, .30 pounds

Features

• Clean where you couldn't normally with a sponge
• Keep you fountain operating smoothly

Customer Reviews

Bad product design
My complaint for these brushes is the poor product design, specifically, with the tips of the biggest and the smallest brushes. To clean around all the sharp corners well, it is important for the tips of these brushes to be covered with a lot of bristles. Guess what, the tip of the smallest brush is prety much dominated by the metal wires, so when you try to clean, instead of getting the bristles to touch and rub against the surfaces, it's mostly the metal wires that come into contact. Last time I checked, it's the bristles that clean, not the metal wire. Same with the biggest brush: The way the metal wires wrap around the sponge tip to hold it to the handle prevents the sponge from coming into full contact with the surfaces.

The product designers for the brushes don't deserve to be product designers. Do you know how much it takes to design a simple floor mop? A lot. A good product designer has to think about which yarn absorbs water well, how much water to absorb so the mop won't be hard to wring, what wringing mechanism to use, how long the handle should be, how thick the handle should be, how the mop head comes into contact with the floor, and so forth, in order to maximize ease of use and effectiveness.

The designers of the brushes are a failure. It seems that not much thought went into the design. Yes, we are dealing with just brushes, but even brushes should do the job they are supposed to do well.

Necessity
Should be included in with the fountain. It was absolutely impossible to clean before (took an hour, I am not kidding) but using this kit makes it easy & fast.

Great sizes, bad construction
I am glad for the sizes but the construction is poor and the bristles too stiff to do a good job cleaning. I still have to break out the pipe cleaners for the small spots and the rag for the large. The bristles don't bush out at the end so when you push the brush into the well, you are scraping the metal end against the bottom - the metal end doesn't do a great job scrubbing the residue off the bottom of the well.
Bamboo makes a Kong cleaner with a suction cup that is better designed and has a small brush in the handle. You'll still need the pipe cleaner for the smaller pieces though.