Omni Water Filters

I forget when I installed this Omni water filter. Anyone ever have one to fail? I only filtered the water to the kitchen and ice makers. Have a water dispenser on the refrigerator too.

We were at the grocery store yesterday and when
I took a gallon of milk to the refrigerator in the basement and heard one heck of a sound of water running and looked over to the water filter and water was pouring from the top of the filter. No leaks from the copper piping. I ran to the main shutoff valve. Good thing we weren't gone long. I had installed a shutoff valve that fed the filter once I had that closed I could turn the water back on. I took a tube cutter and cut the copper lines and removed the filter.

I had heard some of you guys had used Sharkbite fittings and liked them.
I had bought several of them from Home Depot and a piece of Pex tubing probably last year. I needed to tie those 2 pipe together to get water in the kitchen and then I thought of my Pex tubing and sharkbite couplings. Sure made a quick and easy hookup. Took a little longer to clean up the mess. Not sure if I'm going to install a new water filter. Hal
PS: Here' what I used, I had to shorten the tubing and clean the copper pipe.

I have always installed filters in my houses, filter everything that goes thru the softeners, makes them last longer and work better. Do you have excessive high pressure, (over 100psi) or fluctuation in pressure? If you are on a public system and do not have a regulator you can have some extreme water hammer some times. When my parents lived in AZ I installed a regulator because at night when there was little usage the pressure would get well over 100 psi! I have used the sharkbite type fittings and they seem to work well, but always at <70psi. I don't recal what brand filter housings I have used but have never had one burst, where did it break? take a picture. With plastic components if you put tape on the threads and keep tightening you can crack them.

There's no breakage to the base with the filter or to the where the water enter's the filter housing or exit's the housing. My wife say's it's been on there over 20 years. The housing isn't cracked at 3/4 fpt. There's 3 settings on the filter housing which is off, bypass and filter. It was kept on filter. Don't think we have high water pressure. Have lived here for 42 years. We're on town water and sewage. Hal

(quoted from post at 16:16:50 05/18/10) There's no breakage to the base with the filter or to the where the water enter's the filter housing or exit's the housing. My wife say's it's been on there over 20 years. The housing isn't cracked at 3/4 fpt. There's 3 settings on the filter housing which is off, bypass and filter. It was kept on filter. Don't think we have high water pressure. Have lived here for 42 years. We're on town water and sewage. Hal

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So where is the leak??? O rings at the top of the bowl need to be replaced once in a while.

You can only replace the o-ring inside the filter cannister. The housing is cracked about 2/3's around the cover on the housing. Will post a picture later. The plastic cannister never failed. Hal

I had 2. One evening I was out in the yard by the back of the house and saw water running out from under the siding. I ran into the house and the filter under the kitchen sink had cracked like yours did. The only place open in town had a similar filter sold by Culligan. Omni recommends changing them at least every 10 years. I changed the other one soon after that.

Here's where my Omni filter failed. There's a crack about 2/3's around the housing head. Hal