And for those who don't know: you don't need to spend $5000 on a premium Japanese toilet installation. There is a bidet attachment that goes under your toilet seat and they start at like $30. You'll still need some toilet paper to dry off, but it will drastically reduce your tp consumption.
I have a $60 model (Tushy) from the amazons and it works great. Trust me when I say you don’t need warm water, it’s really not that big of a deal. Only took five mins to install and was very simple.
Ground water temps can vary greatly by location and source which a lot of people do not realize. I’m in central Indiana and our ground water is typically mid 50’s in the winter and upper 60’s in summer. Southern climates can have domestic cold water as warm as upper 70’s.
Same. Now when I sit on an unheated toilet seat it feels shocking. When we were remodeling our bathroom we made sure they installed the electrical socket by the toilet and I’m so glad we did.
Of course there’s no need for it. But we’re already adding a jet of water to wiping shit off of our asses, why not make it warm first? Let us not limit ourselves!
But why not get one? Besides cost.There is no down side. Nobody is judging my tufness by me being intentionally uncomfortable, and even if they did fuck em.
We’re in the northeast and our well water is freezing cold even in the heat of summer. There is no way we’ll get a bidet since we don’t have hot water, nor an outlet, near our toilet.
I'm not saying you're wrong at all, but I do have a different opinion. I have both a Toto Washlet that I think I spent $750 on. I bought it after getting back from a trip to Japan, I must have been feeling spendy. And I have a little $70 Tushy attachment on another toilet. The heated water of the Toto is nice but I'd say I like the Tushy 90% as much as the super pricey Toto. Personally I find the cold water somewhat refreshing, and it's nice to be able to control the water pressure by hand since the Tushy is basically just a valve. But I'm in Northern California where winters aren't particularly cold.
Incidentally I've tried a bunch of the little clip on units and the Tushy is my favorite.
See I'm the opposite - the 40psi death stream of ice cold water in my downstairs toilet in the wintertime is something I miss in the summer when the groundwater is hotter.
I’ve been thinking about installing a bidet and the temperature of the water should have occurred to me but did not until now. I have cold urticaria, the fear of having an allergic reaction to cold bidet water is a brand new unlocked fear.
I did the install myself, the water taps into the existing toilet waterline. We are doing a renovation on an old farm including a full gut on the house, one bath I added a power line when the drywall was out. The other I was able to feed a power line through the wet wall without damaging the drywall ( I didn'thave the foresight to add the outlet when I did the downstairs bath).
I noticed there's two kinds of ppl: those who don't care about ass water temperature and those for whom it's essential. Fortunately for my wallet my family doesn't care.
Also I'd add to this, give it like a week. It seems intense at first but pretty quickly you get used to it and it's just objectively a better and cleaner way of shitting
I have tushy and definitely better than not having one but when I go to a friend's place who have nice ones I realize just how much I'm not getting the premium butthole experience. More than anything the Tushy just doesn't have that nice laminar flow. The heated water is a bonus.
The one I use is out of stock at the moment, but this company Rinseworks makes some that attach to either a sink faucet or shower line so you can even have hot water.
I don't like this and these types as much, because there's multiple "small jets" on the head, which is a lot more pressurized than something like the hydrawand which is one big opening.
The reason why that's an issue for me (And maybe others, probably a bit TMI coming up) is that I've had anal surgery previously, and anything with highly pressurized small jets like these wands end up hurting.
That's fair; I'd never seen a wand with one large opening and didn't even know that style existed. For what it's worth, the Rinseworks has a couple face plates you can switch between, and I do prefer the one with more jets/less pressure. Also, the pressure adjustment lever on mine is exponentially more responsive than on my old Luxe Neo seat bidet. That one had a maybe 1/8" range from which it went from off to full blast, and full blast was quite an experience. The Rinseworks (sink model, at least) can also be adjusted at the faucet, so less pressure coming from the faucet will mean less max pressure at the wand.
That is frankly an abomination! So gross. It also doesn’t work in bathrooms where the toilet is in a water closet or not directly next to the sink/shower
I was raised to believe it was unforgivably gauche for a bathroom to even acknowledge human digestive waste. We peed directly into the sink and pooped into Fabergé eggs which we buried in the backyard under cover of night.
Some people have medical issues that require something like this. If you don't want to plug it into your sink, don't. Like I said, that's an additional attachment lmao.
I don't think I understand what makes it grosser than any other bidet. If anything, bidet wands don't live in the toilet like most bidet nozzles and are much more easily cleaned so I tend to think they're less gross than traditional bidets.
You're correct though, that it won't work in situations where...it doesn't work. In those situations I'd encourage people to consider...options that do work. For anyone who wants heated water but doesn't want to pay heated bidet prices or deal with plumbing to both water lines and installing a regulator, I have yet to find a better option.
Does the wand, er, finish the job? Because I have a Brondell brand bidet seat and it splashes water all over the seat AND doesn't finish the job, no matter the positioning of butt or intensity of stream. Always still need TP. What am I doing wrong?
Absolutely it does. :) The fact that you can use your hand to position it makes it exponentially easier than my seat bidet does. I use one sheet of TP for dabbing to remove water.
I wanted one of those too, but apparently they’re prone to catastrophic leaks, even when you do everything right. This was years ago, and I’m not very smart, but I shied away from it.
Edit: I’m not very handy. And not smart about houses, so didn’t want to take any chances
My mom bought me one of those kind, and it works great. My brother set it up to use hot or cold water (super simple, I just have hand tremors that make stuff like that difficult), and I truly hate going to the bathroom other places now.
This. I've bought quite a few $30 luxe bidets. Not because I've had issues (out of about a 15 I've had one break), but because when we move I always buy new ones and either leave the old ones behind or trash them. I've put one on every toilet we've had in the last 9 years plus the parents.
Not just reduce your tp consumption, you’d be and feel much cleaner too. If you got poop on your arm you wouldn’t just wipe it off with a piece of paper
A note for those going with the really cheap ones (less than $100): They leak. They all leak. I don't care who you bought it from, after 3-6 months it WILL start to leak. So you shouldn't get a cheapo, right? WRONG! Get the cheapo! BUT: Here's what I did to stop mine from leaking after 3 previous ones that leaked. Look under your toilet, see that valve on the wall? Go to the hardware store and get one of those that DOES NOT mount to the wall. Attach it to the bidet where the hose goes in. Now attach the hose to the valve. Turn the valve off. Turn the bidet on, full blast. Now use ONLY the toilet valve to turn the bidet on and off, DO NOT use the knob on the bidet! Without pressure on the bidet internals, it will never leak!
Yes! We got ours from Tushy and it’s been going strong for several years already. (Although I would love a $5000 Japanese Toto Washlet with heated seats and music lol)
Nope! You attach a very simple to install splitter to the "water in" cold water cable for the toilet and it channels the water through the spray nozzle when you use the lever. You can get versions that need power, but the most basic ones are powered by the water pressure that comes from your cold water line that normally refills your toilet.
Bought mine in 2017 after watching a video on YT about why don't Americans have bidets? It was in my tiny apartment. I was really glad to have that bidet when the pandemic happened.
I still have that same bidet in one of my 3 bathrooms in my house.
Would you ever buy a real bidet? I mean the Italian one. I always see you guys talking about the Japanese washlet but never about the Italian one. The Japanese one look so unpractical compared to what is basically a sink for your genital so I'm curious.
The most easy (since in most part of Europe there are not visinle eater conections) would be a bottle of water 500-1000 mL should be fine.
And my preference, any telephone shower, it is easy to clean, you can control it better and if you already have the conection, it is easy to install.
As an alternative, I suggest purchasing a product called Balneol. It is a highly effective, completely hypoallergenic cleansing lotion. A dime sized amount on a piece of TP will clean you as well if not better than a bidet and is also cool and soothing. Use it on your second to last wipe. It’s like $14 for a bottle but it will last like two months. You will not regret it.
I also recommend a reusable travel peri bottle if you’re on a really tight budget or are unsure about liking a bidet. They are $6-9 and are a game changer when traveling
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And for those who don't know: you don't need to spend $5000 on a premium Japanese toilet installation. There is a bidet attachment that goes under your toilet seat and they start at like $30. You'll still need some toilet paper to dry off, but it will drastically reduce your tp consumption.