Bidet dreams: The detached state of mind I now sometimes achieve while sitting on my bidet seat after the business is done, the water is warm and focused just right, and my thoughts turn to the infinite. It can last for hours if I’m not careful. Or until my legs go numb.
I have a stand alone, or is it sit alone, bidet and love it. Used them in Europe and the Middle East and decided that when we built our retirement home I’d have one.
I have it on good authority that Stanley Kubrick was sitting on a bidet when conceived of the ”Beyond The Infinite” sequence for 2001: A Space Odyssey.
We were planning on redoing the ensuite this year, and a bidet/toilet was a definite (in my mind). Of course, with lockdown our plans have been somewhat delayed, but come freedom, we’ll be moving ahead with our plans, and getting much more done by contractors than we would normally do.
We’ve both been working and getting paid throughout lockdown, so our next job is to help the economic recovery by getting stuff done by people who need a business boost.
I just installed a bidet toilet seat in our master bath. Unfortunately, because there is no electrical outlet in the toilet stall, a heated version wasn’t an option, so it just uses the cold water supplied to the toilet.
It’s fine, and it is cutting our consumption of toilet paper slightly, which was the main reason for buying it. But I have to admit that it has not inspired the blissful reveries QtM describes in the OP. And I have been wondering if it might become a bit less comfortable when the weather turns colder in 6-8 months. We shall see.
I really want one but I will settle no less than for heated water which means hiring an electrician and getting a top model. It’ll probably cost me $1500 for all of that. I’m not sure I can justify it.
I’ve popped into other bidet threads to offer my appreciation of these clean machines. Ever since I first used one in Japan 15 years ago I knew I (and, IMO, everyone else) had to get one. Been using ever since. As they say: “You wouldn’t clean shit off of your arm with paper would you?”
It’s bizarre to me why Americans don’t seem to care for them (although that may be changing thanks to the Great TP Hoarding of 2020). I think for Americans bidets are a lot like universal health care: scary, weird, and expensive… until you actually try it at which point you’d never, ever go back.
Has anyone here had experience with a non-heated unit in the winter?
Here in Georgia, winter weather rarely drops below freezing for long, and although the incoming cold water is somewhat cooler than in the summer, the seasonal temperature differential is not as great as it was in Las Vegas, where “cold” water coming out of the tap was decidedly lukewarm in the peak of summer heat.
Does anyone have a non-heated bidet that is uncomfortable or unusable in cold weather?