I agree! Doing a headstand in the shower so the spray can reach where the sun don’t shine was very risky. 
BTW, if you’re disinclined to jump on the Bidet Bandwagon, and you use wet wipes, don’t bother with the ones made for adults. Get Huggies baby wipes and be sure and get the ones marked “One & Done.” They will git 'er done. 
Of course, you DO NOT flush them.
Unfortunate signoff there.
mmm!
Handy and inexpensive alternative for a portable unit you can take with you or use every day. Based on a Misty Mate and hardware parts.
Huh, looks like Misty Mate updated their line may not make the same pump sprayer anymore. I see plenty on E-bay though. Heh, glad I bought a batch of five years ago. I’m still on my first one.
I have never used a bidet. I’ve only one or twice been in the presence of one. Thusly deprived, I have neverthess alway managed to wash and not merely wipe.
Okay, hereit is! I just finished installing it.
I got it all installed and then I couldn’t get the remote to work. So I called Brondell CS in California 45 minutes before their closing time. I got a very lively and personable rep who said that you have to be sitting on it for the remote to work. So while I had her on the phone, I dropped trou and sat down. Still no lights on remote (but the seat was nice and warm). And then she said there’s something that sometimes happens inside the battery compartment of the remote. One of the little springs gets hung up so it doean’t make contact with the battery. She said just see if you can pop it out with your fingernail. So I did and YAY! Contact! Warm air! I’ll bet she has some interesting conversations with customers.
I haven’t tried it out for real yet. I need to compose and center myself. Ommmmmm.
There was already a comment on imgur that that fancy seat doesn’t look right with the old-timey vanity. The picture hadn’t been up there for ten seconds. :rolleyes:
I may or may not leave the toilet paper there. For guests, don’tcha know. Also, one of my cats likes to tear up the paper.
I will try it very soon.
Congrats on a successful installation!
When I installed mine, I followed the instructions diligently. The final step was a test that everything worked. It said push down on the seat, push the “Rear” button, and the wand should extend and start spraying.
You can see where this is going. It was actually a test for intelligence, and I failed miserably. I stood in front of the bowl, pushed down the seat, and hit the button. My excitement grows as I see the wand extend…and then I get a faceful of water. I’m not sure what I was expecting, I guess my excitement overwhelmed my common sense. Lesson learned, don’t trust people who make toilets for a living.
I’m like you–diligent and also (unfortunately) literal-minded. In this case, I had watched soooo many videos before I decided on this seat that I was ready for the test. One of them said to stretch some plastic wrap over the seat and then push on it and test the spray. I had a big plastic bag from a online order so I didn’t get sprayed.
I did actually try it a little while ago, and the sensation was a little startling. There will be a learning curve. I haven’t tested it on The Main Event yet.
Tomorrow my ladies’ group is coming over for lunch. One them has a standalone bidet that her diy-type husband installed. I don’t think anyone else has one. Should be interesting to see their reactions. I’m not giving a tutorial or anything. I expect them to just use it as a regular toilet.
It’s been in use for over a week now, and I’m still enamoured with the device. Haven’t encountered any downsides yet. Other than now being dissatisfied with all commodes that I am forced to use away from home.
[sub]also slightly resentful of the Mrs. when her use of the facility forces me to urgently use one of our other, lesser bathrooms[/sub]
Save the marriage by installing another bidet.
Do they make good drinking fountains?
:eek:
We use bubblers for that, not bidets.
Hmm, maybe I’ll get one. It looks likei can just buy the seat and add it to my existing toilet. It also looks like that seat is really expensive.
To be fair, I almost never scratch my nose with my ass.
Thanks for that. Campbell is closer to me now than SF is.
Thanks also. Good to know there are some test drives I can do.
While house sitting up here facing the quickly approaching Canadian winter, tonight I experienced something even better than a bidet: a bidet and a heated floor.
My journey towards a bidet began a few years ago after hearing of a man who flipped shit when on a long flight he discovered there was no bidet on the plane. He apparently had a “Japanese supertoilet” at home and was incapable of relieving himself with anything less and was in enough distress to cause the flight to be diverted(he may simply have been arrested for disturbing the flight crew upon landing, I don’t remember the details and my Google-fu hasn’t turned it up easily). I remember asking myself “Is this possibly a rational reaction? Are the toilets in Japan so amazballs?”
So began my research. I couldn’t find anywhere that had any in my area(Dallas) to try out(hotels didn’t advertise if they had them, etc.) and supposedly the high end Japanese models with instant hot water and heated seats and such were even harder to find. I asked my sister, who had been posted in Japan for a few years with the air force, and she said “most of the toilets in Japan are just normal toilets like ours, if individuals have those supertoilets they’re probably in an area where they don’t let guests go very often. The Japanese are pretty private about those things as a rule.” Thanks Sis… So I put it in the “fuckit bucket.” Which is where I put ideas that when I find myself with more money than sense, I go fishing in.
About a year ago I dropped a couple grand and got new GFCI circuits installed next to both toilets and, not one for going middle of the road in my fuckit bucket ideas, bought the high end Toto S550e WASHLET. This thing is extra. Like super EXTRA. Double-sided remote control level EXTRA. Pre-programmed settings for nozzle position, spray pressure setting, water temp, seat temp, dryer temp, etc. Just do your bizness and press your preset and it just does its thing with no futzing around, hits your bullseye on the first shot. And if you want it to oscillate around and get the whole area, it’ll do that too. Then it’ll clean itself and spray electrolyzed water around the bowl to disinfect it at random intervals when no one is using it.
I decided to just buy one at first and see how I liked it, because it makes sense to do both electrical outlets at the same time, versus having an electrician out twice if I really liked it. I put it on the hallway bathroom and found myself… meh… about it. It’s not bad, it’s not great. The kids have had mixed reactions. From “OMG I’ll never use this, but I forgot to check if there was toilet paper before I sat down, so somebody go get me a roll!” to “Meh” to “Can I have this when you die?” Mostly it just gets used as a regular $40 toilet seat. It is kind of nice on cold days, though we don’t have all that many of those.
So I guess the jury is out about that dude on the airplane.
Enjoy,
Steven
Okay, this is my new favorite word! I propose that the worn-out, overused “awesome,” be expunged from the English language and AMAZEBALLS henceforth be substituted in all instances. (I thought the word needed an “e.”)
Carry on.
You buried the lede! Which hotel? I’ve got to go to Vancouver in 2-3 weeks and I will absolutely consider the bidet trial in my decision. Booking soon.