We’ve had bidet toilet seats for at least ten years. No heated water or other fancy controls, just twist the valve and get water. The cold water can be a bit startling at first, but you get used to it.
We have a pair of Tushy aftermarket bidets ( +1 to @Kron ) that we got shortly before Covid luckily. One is a slightly upscale model, that has hoses for both hot and cold water since the downstairs bathroom had relatively easy access to hot water, but the master bathroom only has cold. It’s quite nice, though like others, if I was moving or refurbishing the house on a large scale I’d absolutely go for something more advanced. But it gets the job done much better than relying solely on paper.
Just in case (though my location is listed in my profile), I am one of the USAian posters.
I, also, have a toto washlet. I love it. And it doesn’t take any extra space. It replaces the toilet seat, and there’s a little pipe that extends out into the bowl to spray your tush. Then retracts out of the way when you are done. My husband teases me about how phallic it looks. But it works really well.
I love the heated seat and the heated water, but my husband doesn’t. So i turned off the heated seat the other day. In doing so, i accidentally turned off the heated water. And… It was a surprise, but really not that bad. Refreshing. I’ve also used a cheap cold-only unit at a friend’s house. I agree that it’s about 95% of the value, and far far cheaper.
I have mentioned this before. The bidet is the only product for which I could not find a video of it in operation with a real person. You can find porn videos of people doing everything imaginable in the nether regions but not cleaning. I thought I found one once judging from the preview image but it was a guy who positioned two pink balloons on the seat. Doesn’t have to be a shitty video, just a sprayed bottom.
Using it in anything like a natural way, all the action is hidden between your body and the toilet bowl.
I could have written your entire post endorsing the Washlet.
I agree with others that less expensive but totally functional options are out there, but I would really miss the odor removal feature of the Washlet. As you pointed out, it really works well!
And it does feel barbaric now to use facilities that lack the bidet option. I try not to.
We have one in the upstairs toilet, and one I haven’t gotten around to installing on the downstairs toilet, for some reason. Well, laziness. The spray is amazing. I don’t even bother with any kind of hot water installation – the cold water is perfectly fine on my backside, never annoyed me.
Another happy Toto Washlet owner in our en suite bathroom. I would not own a house without one.
USA. All three of our toilets have aftermarket Brondell Bidet’s installed. No heating or anything fancy.
After installing one in the master bathroom early in Covid I noticed everyone started using that toilet so I got a couple more. Then my parents visited and asked where they could get one.
Now that I’ve experienced it, I don’t intend to live without one.
USA–I have a bidet.
My second.
Hooked up to warm water.
Nice in February.
Never underestimate YouTube videographers. You could use flexible cameras or a special raised toilet seat. The one with the balloons worked well.
I’ve never seen one of those, either as a separate unit or as an add-on.
I’d like both of these appliances, but Mr. Brown has a deep distrust of European-ish bathroom gear like this. He probably has scary memories of his mom’s rubber hose equipment which hung in the shower when he was a kid.
Hey, do they still make douchebags? I haven’t seen one in decades.
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Does it perhaps help that Toto, the leading manufacturer, is actually Japanese?
So nobody really cares about the enhanced “toilet plume” effect?
Or is the awesomeness so great that it’s a “we try not to think about that” kind of thing?
Speaking only for myself, but that would never enter my calculations about the pros and cons. We don’t have one, but I see the appeal.
In our 2 full bathrooms we have electric heated seat bidet toilets with heated dryer fan.
In our half bath down in the rec room we just have the hand sprayer. Contrary to what others have posted that water is really cold! Talk about pucker factor.
I have a urinal closet in my garage. I don’t know what lunatic designed or built it. It’s a very narrow closet with just a wall urinal. It is impossible to close the door when you’re inside of it. Also, there is no plumbing attached. So fluid must just go down into the ground from the drain. I don’t have a bidet attached to it.
USA. After our round-the-world trip we had to have one at home. Installed 2 Toto Washlets, one in each bathroom. Had to install electrical in the main bath. In the smaller bath, we tried to install new electrical but there was a barrier - and then it turned out the nearest wall outlet was close by so we just went with that.
I don’t know how we lived without one all these years. Everyone I know who has one feels the same. And it’s like with vegetarians - if someone has (is) one, you know because they tell you. The odor reduction filter fan thing really does work, too.
Very few toilets during our recent trip to Japan went without, even in public spaces.
Nope. I think he mentally places these two appliances under a “weird stuff that women are always sticking up their hoo-has” category.