16 in 1 Drinking Water Test Kit Strips, 100 cnt. Home Water Quality Test for Tap Water, Pool, Spa. Strips for Water Hardness, Total Chlorine, Mercury, Lead, Aluminum, Fluoride, Iron, pH and More

Love that these strips are able to let us know all of the different things that might be in our water, as well as the alkalinity levels!! Now I know that not only does our well water taste delicious, it is totally safe, with no chemicals and also is alkaline and not acidic!! Such a nice thing to know!!

I think this set of filter paper strips does what it's supposed to do! You can't compare it in terms of accuracy to lab tests. If you're looking for that kind of accuracy, you should just send your sample to a lab. What this strip does is that it can give you a ballpark indication of what's in your water. Or at the very least, a positive / negative indication of presence / absence of a compound.It did take a couple of tries to come up with a technique. Other reviewers have mentioned that the colors tend to run, and that does happen. But I'm pretty sure the same will happen with other brands of strips with multiple tests on it, and there's more than enough strips to experiment with. I found that if I used a fork to put a small drop of water onto each square while the strip is laying flat on a paper towel, I can get by without having the colors run into one another. Of course you should rinse the fork with the water you're sampling thoroughly before using it, and change forks for different water samples etc.For the waters I tested, the strip showed that the tap, boiled tap, bathroom tap waters all have higher pH, alkalinity and hardness when compared to my filtered water, which makes sense to me. I was actually looking out for lead, but I guess there's no lead present in the waters I tested.

This water test kit came as advertised -- perfectly sealed bottle under the lid, and with two sealed packets inside dividing the test strips in half.Easy to use -- my only issue was after testing, where excess water on the strip could cause color runoff from one test pad to another (which may affect accuracy due to color mixing). The instructions do say to "carefully shake off any excess fluid" but maybe I just need more practice? For this same reason, it would have been nice if the color guide were laminated (in case water were to fall on it).

It didn’t matter what I tested, chlorinated/fluoridated tap water, filtered water, tea, sparkling water, etc., the strips all read the same. No chlorine, no fluoride, no aluminum, etc. That’s just not possible.

I got the same results, testing tap, filtered and bottled water. I live in the mountains with quality well water, its just hard water, but it shows high concentrations of fluoride. A lab test showed no fluoride. How can I have fluoride in my well water? Also, the stripes are hard to read, because the chart they provide is not the same scale size, so it is very hard to compare because they don't line up side by side. Think I wasted $20, only because I cannot trust results.

The test strip instructions and match comparison to the test result chart were easy to understand and use. Rather then relying simply on the taste of the drinking water after Reverse Osmosis treatment, wanted to actually know what we were drinking and received an easy to read composition of elements and their strength. We got a clear reading and were happy to learn there were no harmful elements in our drinking water. Next, we will be testing our regular house water for softness/hardness. We are confident this test will be equally simple to perform. We are happy with our choice.

I wanted to know if my aluminum seltzer maker was leaving aluminum in the seltzer I drink and I learned that if there is any, it is immeasurably small.

I mainly wanted to test hardness, and it was great for that. My main complaint is that they have failed at graphic design. The graphic comparison images that they provide do not match the test strip in length. The image on the bottle is shorter, and the image on the insert is larger. So you cannot lay the test strip next to it and just read every test, you have to keep moving it. The other problem is that neither of the images is waterproof, so it is pretty easy to wreck it by touching the test strip. If the insert image was the right length I could have it laminated, but since it is not, I am not excited about paying to do that.