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| List Price: www.amazon.com's Price: $9.72 You Save: $5.27 (35%) Condition: New Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Average Customer Rating: 3.0 Lowest New Price: $3.99 | Features• Contaminated water causes birth defects, cancer, and stains fixtures• Kit utilizes patented laboratory grade test strips for accurate and reliable results • Safe, easy to use • Check water for pH, total alkalinity, total chlorine, total hardness, iron, copper, nitrates, and nitrites • Includes 2 of each test, and a bonus test for hydrogen sulfide and iron bacteria Works OK to get basic levelsI got this test in an attempt to see how my whole house water filter was working. The fact that it contained two of each test was great since that's exactly what I needed in order to test before and after the filter.The tests were easy to use and quickly provided me with basic levels of each potential contaminate. I say 'basic levels' because that's all you should expect from this kit. It isn't going to quantify exactly how much of anything is in your water - but you should know what range you're in. It can be a bit of a pain determining what color matches to the strip in some cases; but it was fairly obvious for most of the tests. The only tests in this kit were: pH level, alkalinity, chlorine, hardness (this was the hardest to read), iron, copper, nitrate, and nitrite. If you are expecting any other tests you will be disappointed. As other reviewers have mentioned, the 'bonus tests' are a bit of a scam - but I knew that before ordering thanks to their info. As far as quality goes, the directions in my kit were printed in color - unlike another reviewer who said his were in black and white. One of the copper tests was not attached correctly to the strip and it just bled ink everywhere instead of giving a valid reading. Overall, I'd recommend this kit if you just want to know basic levels of contaminates without spending a lot of time or money. If you don't expect exact results and realize in advance that the 'bonus tests' are bogus - you will probably be happy with this product. Look elswhere if you need to test your water.I was extremely dissapointed with this purchase, and wish I would have read the reviews on here before buying.1) The instructions were printed in black and white. This is not good when you need to compare the color on the test strips to the colors on the charts in the instructions. If you go to the pro-lab website, you can download the instructions in color, but it's hard to compare the strips to colors on a computer monitor. 2) The only reason I bought this kit was to see how much iron was in my water to determine what filtration system I need to buy. Well, according to this test, I have no iron at all. I know there is iron in my water; I can smell it, I can taste it, I can see it turning my filters and toilet orange, but according to this test...none. 3) This test said my PH was 2.0. Really? 2.0? Pretty sure I would be dead by now if this were true. I checked this using a test kit I had for my aquarium and it came out 6.5. 4) There is no test for iron bacteria or hydrogen sulfide in the package. The instructions just tell you to smell your water. To give them a little credit here, I think the best way to test for hydrogen sulfide is to smell your water, but claiming there is a test in the package is very misleading. Good basic water quality test kitI bought this product to test the tapwater at my parent's house. It was very easy to run through the tests and all in all it took probably no more than 10 minutes including reading the instructions. The best part is, it actually comes with 2 sets of litmus tests. You can either test two different water supplies or the water from two different tap locations if you suspect something is amiss in your house's plumbing system. There's also a mail-in postcard in there to send away for a free lead test kit. It does warn that the water sample has to be sent to a lab and it costs about $30 for the results of that test, but I still think that's better than nothing. I am going to buy another to test my water at some point.I thinkit is a rip offThe only kit I saw that claimed to test for Hydrogen Sulfide and Iron Bacteria. GREAT! However kit has no test strips for these tests. I called the 800 number for Pro-Lab and was told that of course I could test for this, just smell my water and look in my tank. The reason for ordering the test kit was to quantify and confirm what my nose and eyes told me. That is like selling me a test to check for warm water and telling me the test is to put my hand under the water. They see nothing wrong with selling you a test kit, and the test is to smell your water. Is it just me????Works as advertised but not terribly preciseThis test kit is easy to use and does work as advertised but reading the results is rather subjective as the color matching is difficult to do with any amount of precision.For us it was all we needed because we were just looking for an idea as to whether or not we need a water softener system AND filtration or just one or the other. If you need something giving you more of a precise range this is not the product for you. But if you want a general idea with a broad range of variability this is worth the nominal cost. Product DescriptionProfessional Water Quality Test Kit, Safe & Easy To Use, Checks For Toxins In Water, Accurate Instant Water Test, Non-Toxic Laboratory Grade Test Strips, When Moistened With Water, Provide The Most Effective & Reliable Results Possible, Contains 18 Instant Test Strips, That Can Perform 9 Different Tests, Enough Strips For Testing 2 Samples Of Each Test, EPA Approved Lab Methods.Read more... 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