Weird-I mean that it sold out in 3 minutes-they had just one? What a waste of day when they could have sold a number of something. Or, as jandrese said above, maybe it was a glitch.
@Euniceandrich
Oh that’s strange , when I checked out Side Deal it was sold out but when I just now went through your link they’re still available. Strange, VERY STRANGE!!
20 minutes into the day and it sucks ass. First I somehow missed clicking the meh button yesterday so that means my consecutive streak of 360 some odd days was broken, and then I get on here at like quarter after midnight and all the seats are gone. So we’re starting off on a real shitty note
@Euniceandrich@somf69
Yeah that really stinks! At least you’ve got that 1 year under your belt, you know it’s doable! Get back on that bike and we’ll congratulate you in another year!
@alacrity Not if you hook them up directly to the blender. That will make a margarita drinking fountain in the toilet… convenient to the toilet too in case you need ii if you consumed too much.
I’ve never had a bidet before. Does the little metal sprinkler arm retract when its not spraying? Otherwise, it seems like it would be in the, ahem, splash zone, so to speak.
@crazycarl864 I have a cheap one and a good one. The cheap one, no, but it’s not as long as the nozzle
on the good one, which, while longer, does retract.
@CatFriend@crazycarl864 The water pressure is what extends the sprayer from behind its shield. If there are two nozzles, it may be that one is the “master blaster” and the other is for lady parts (more forward-facing) and “fun mode”.
@crazycarl864 I have this company’s next-level better model, which appears to be identical except mine’s controls are remote. Wooo. I forget what I paid for it during a deal of the day at Home Depot. I think it was a little under $200.
The nozzle does retract after each use and it actually pre/post washes itself while in the retracted position. (Just a water spray) You can also have the wand extend out for cleaning, which you will want to do every time you clean your normal toilet bowl.
I think it is crazy that mine had in the instructions to not use harsh chemicals on it and only warm soapy water. Um, a place that gets covered in shit can’t be sprayed with a disenfectant? I called the company and they say Method, Meyers, etc. all fine, just no bleaches. My seat has two little spots on it that are just defects in the plastic that appeared over years of use.
I don’t regret my purchase at all, and I am sure this would be no exception. You will not go back to without.
@mehvid1, I can’t send you one, butt iffen ya send me your bank account number I promise I’ll send ya the money so you can buy one,… Or do ya want two¿?
I bought one. I’ve been wanting one for a while, but wanted all these spiffy features without paying a spiffy price, so this works out great for me. haha
@avmercenary They have it listed a 20.8" Length and refer to it as the “BioBidet Elongated Heated Bidet Toilet Seat” so I suspect it’s the longer size.
@avmercenary@Philosopherott@stolicat@TexasDex Same here. Lamost bought it until I read this and realized the toilet I wanted to install it on is round. Guess it’s more common that some think.
@avmercenary@stolicat@zhicks1987 I was mostly just determined to get one that’s not ‘comfort height’ aka too high to be comfortable. I’m a fan of the squatty-potty style footrests and having a taller toilet would be counter productive. If they made them with elongated bowls and without the extra height I would’ve gotten it but selection was limited.
I have the basic one Meh offered years ago. TBH, you dont need the heated seat, runway lights, or the hot blow job.
Especially if you don’t have electrical available to plug it into. You don’t even really need hot water. Unless you live in a super cold area and don’t keep the bathroom comfortably warm.
@mike808 Aye matey, who needs coffee when you have a refreshingly cool spritz in da mornin’? I just stick me arse over the bow & let the sea air work its magic!
@mike808 I bought that one too. my tap water is quite cold in the winter, but i have neither a hot water line or an outlet near my toilet…so cold water for me.
@bigevilgrape So save your money and get a $40 model.
Maybe the scurvy dogs over on the Amazon or Woot might have the plunder ye be looking for.
I got the (Better) BB-270 here on a 2-fer Tuesday deal. Never hooked up the hot water. I do like the pressure control, though. So it’s a solid buy again and pay for that upgrade feature.
@bigevilgrape Fair warning to ye, if you’re looking to drop yer booty on the Amazon. The BB270 is now like $70! Shiver me timbers!
Bio Bidet BB-270 Duo Dual Nozzle Hot & Cold https://a.co/5VM0Oex
@mike808 Aye, the stern is fer poopin’, but the good spray for cleanin’ yer taint is at the bow, unless ye drive yer ship backwards, ye scallywag. Now get to swabbin’ that poop deck afore i send ye ta meet Davy Jones!
@sglickenhaus I have a different, but identical (water and electrical) requirements, model from this company and I can say no problem at all if you have ever changed a sink faucet. Assuming you have an outlet near the toilet, of course, electrical is another beast.
If your toilet is up to code, it will have a shutoff valve accessible to you from in the bathroom. Look for it on the floor/wall where the hose comes from. Turn it 90* to the right. Flush your toilet. Listen to hear for the tank refilling. If it isn’t your water is off. Still place some towels or a bucket underneath because there is some residual water in the hose. Unscrew from your tank. It comes with a hose that goes to the water tank in the bidet and a spliter that will attach where you just disconnected the hose from the toilet tank. Attach the original supply hose, the new, thinner bidet tank hose, turn back on your water. Look for leaks. Plug in. Enjoy.
You’ll need an adjustable wrench or channel-lock or slip-joint pliers to deal with the plumbing and nuts to mount the thing, plus a screwdriver or two. It took me about 20 minutes, IIRC.
And it is definitely worth it… while I pretty much never use the blow-dry feature of mine, I was able to get through the first 15 months of the pandemic with only one warehouse-sized package of toilet paper.
Years ago, a friend was over and somehow the topic of bidets came up and I was secretly hoping he’d STFU since I didn’t want another house project, but he kept talking, my wife said she’d always wanted one, and a few days later, I was installing a $40ish (unheated-water) one from Bez-mart. It was fantastic. I typically use a bathroom on the other side of the house (separate bathrooms, the secret to a long marriage), so I bought another for “my” bathroom which tapped into the cold and hot water supplies and it was even more fantastic. When we eventually remodeled both bathrooms, we replaced our old toilets with actual bidet toilets (vs. these bidet accessories) and have never looked back. (haha) I remember thinking these were stupid until I read something which said that if a bird pooped on your hand, would you just wipe it off with a paper napkin and call it a day? Of course not. You’d try to wash it off as thoroughly as possible with at least water, so I was sold. Thank you for listening to my TErDx Talk.
I really want to buy one of these but I do not have a GFCI outlet nearby the toilet. I am not going to run an extension cord all the way from the wall on the other side of the sink either. What I really need to do is a small remodel of the bathroom and have a GFCI installed so I have more options of Bidets to buy in the future.
I bought one of the cheaper ones that do not require electricity when they were offered here last time. It eventually developed a small leak from a crack in the plastic where the top and bottom molds are glued together. I threw it away and need to get a replacement as soon as possible. But right now, I can only use the non-electrical versions.
@Euniceandrich Thanks for the suggestion but I’ll wait for a better model. In the meantime, I bought a manual squeeze bottle from aliexpress which sort of works but is definitely lacking the water pressure. Once I get the GFCI installed, I’ll be back to buy a more professional unit.
@cengland0 You probably do not need to remodel to install a GFCI outlet. Many people can do it by following the instructions that come with it. Check the instructions (available on line) and at worst an electrician can do it, likely without rewiring anything.
@Euniceandrich@Tripod2 Or you can swap out your circuit breaker for a GFCI verson and protect the entire run. Most houses built these days do it that way. I’d recommend getting an electrician to swap out your circuit breakers to GFCI, though. Just the bathrooms and the kitchen runs.
@andyw@cengland0 Whether a GFCI can be easily installed in a bathroom is largely a function of the age of the structure. The older the house, the more difficult it often becomes. In the case of mine (built in 1959, and wired somewhat deficient even for that day) it’s a right royal pain to add a genuine grounding circuit to the bathroom in the back of the house. GFCI breakers for my panel simply do not exist, so that’s a no-go at the start.
Almost none of the sockets anywhere in the house are wired with 14/3; outside of the kitchen and the laundry room, it’s nearly all 14/2 or even 16/2 in a few instances. For that bathroom I mentioned, the attic access is virtually nil, so fishing the lead up through the wall in the absence of conduit is No Fun At All. And the wall where one would most like to have a box is full of pocket sliding door. The wall over the vanity is entirely plate glass mirror to six feet above the floor. There was one three-prong socket in the bathroom already, above that mirror in the light fixture (and switched via the same circuit as the light, dammit), but as was not unusual in those days, the “ground” was actually wired to the neutral - in a structure that has three-phase supply. At some point, someone had tried to add a true ground for the circuits in the kitchen by connecting the ground lugs in the sockets to the water pipes - and then the water supply line coming in from the meter sprang a leak, and the pipe coming up to the service valve got replaced by PVC.
@andyw Is remodel the right word? Maybe not. But to run a wire behind the wall is difficult unless you remove the sheetrock and then drill holes in the 2x4s to run the electrical wire from the current electrical box on the other side of the bathroom.
I could probably tap into electricity going through the on the other side of the bathroom wall which has a hallway and some electrical outlets so it must have a run in that wall somewhere. However, I don’t want to have a circuit breaker labeled for a dining room or livingroom turn off my toilet GFCI.
Suppose I could just dig a trench in the sheetrock to run armored cable and then spackle it up when I’m done but I’m not the kind of person to do a half-assed job so I’ll do it the proper and professional way even though it’s the most time consuming. Only problem is that I haven’t been motivated to do much lately so I’m not sure it will get done before I die of old age.
@cengland0 Some projects are bigger than they seem, until yo plan it, as you are doing. Some are bigger than they seem after you start them, even if you planned it! I’ve got lots of those in my head that may not make it before my best by date!
@blaineg@cengland0@werehatrack I’ve had remnants of knob and tube, but no active wires on them. I have not seen fabric insulation lately. In this and my previous house there were gas pipes left in the walls (for lighting, not the kitchen) as well as many pipes sticking out where there were fixtures. There was no gas in them. I had to cut one away to hang a ceiling fan.
@andyw@blaineg@cengland0@werehatrack About old houses, I have a house built 1926, and still has some knob-and-tube IN USE with fabric covered wires. Yeah, been meaning to get to that.
The kitchen was rewired long ago before I bought it, with grounded 20A outlets. (but no GFCIs yet). But you may be surprised to learn that you CAN put GFCIs on ungrounded circuits! They still provide some protection because they can detect a difference in current flowing through one wire and NOT coming back in the other. (i.e. maybe it’s going through your foot onto a wet cement floor — or in the case if a bidet seat I don’t want to imagine what it’s flowing through).
To use a GFCI without a ground, you also are supposed to affix a “No Equipment Ground” little sticker that comes in most retail GFCI boxes. And don’t use GFCI pass-through, which IMHO is more trouble than it’s worth anyway.
I own a remote controlled model from BioBidet and absolutely love it. It has the same functions. The heated air drying is by far my least used feature. With any of these models, there will be a short second before the heated water reaches its full temperature, but still a nice feature. The heated seat is definitely something I enjoy more than I thought I needed, and as a guy, the light comes in surprisingly useful. I do not like how the brightness cannot be adjusted on mine.
I have left some comments to others, I very much recommend this company’s product as I have enjoyed mine for many years of daily use. If you have an electrical outlet nearby, and are on the fence, this is a great price for a lot of features to see what all the hype about these things is about.
I don’t own this model so I can’t really rate it, but I do have a bidet and highly recommend it if you can swing the price. I can’t keep my youngest out of my bathroom because they will only go on the heated seat bidet.
After a trip to Hawaii in which we got a really really nice suite, the rooms bathrooms had these bidets. Let’s just say the wife insisted upon the need and so the project commenced. The tough part was running the power, who again has an outlet under their toilet? Now two of our bathrooms have them and one had to be replaced already after 4 years. Not all bidets are the same BTW , get the Japanese built ones because for some reason the Japanese really really like bidets and we are playing catch up.
@manual I first encountered a full bidet toilet (built as part of toilet, not an add-on seat) at a nice business hotel in Tokyo about 30 years ago. (Hotel Paid by work luckily, they were expensive even then). Yes the toilet was a new discovery and very nice — I realized how “caveman” we are in the U.S.
I got a different BioBidet, the 6800 model, which seems to have the same features as this one, but with a wall-mounted remote rather than a side panel.
It’s been great, always leaves me feeling nice and clean and my wife loves the seat warmer function. Only downside is that I’ve had to replace the seat twice–once under warranty, once at my own expense–because the heater stops working.
@TexasDex I was happy with the one attached to the side — can’t lose the remote, or have the batteries go dead. On the other hand, some comments reminded me that for men with poor aim, it means the controls are in a position for “splash damage” — especially if you have boys, or perhaps men who shop too much in casemates.com. So the remote control on the wall might be better.
EDIT or perhaps for a prank you could take the remote to the next room, and when someone in the house tries to use the toilet. you could press a bunch of buttons and give them a surprise!
The budget BioBidet I got years ago from Woot gave up the ghost last year. So I replaced it with a Japanese model (Toto) that has some nice upgrades. They do know how to do it.
So I received mine and am already reaping the benefits!
It doesn’t fit very well on the toilet I wanted to install it on, oh well. As I’m trying to put it on an alternative toilet, I find that the rubber coated bolts on the underside of the toilet wind up not providing a very snug seal, though. How are other people handling this?
There seem to be two options:
don’t tighten very much at all so that the seat is basically held to the toilet using only the friction of the rubber coating on the bolts. This will hold the top metal plates secure to the plastic mounting plate, but I don’t believe that within a week of use, the rubber mounting nuts would not pull up from the basin and the seat wobbles all over.
tighten securely to pull the rubber-coated bolt up to be snug with the basin. This seems analogous to how most mounting would work - however when I do this, the rubber bolts don’t securely hold against my basin.
After typing this up, I’m just gonna take out the included mounting screws and rubber-mount nuts and instead use the hardware that I took off my old toilet seat, but I’ll leave this comment in case it helps anybody else.
This is a big problem for me because of my particularly…
@slipperyp If the old hardware will fit, then go for it. Your toilet may have larger than normal seat mount holes, or the ceramic is thicker than they expected there, in which case the rubber encased nuts aren’t compressing that center section once you start turning the screw.
What you could try also is to push the rubber into the toilet seat mount hole, nut side towards the floor, from underneath the toilet, and then see if you can catch the nut with the screw from the top.
Specs
BioBidet LW-1000 Heated Bidet Seat with Night Light & Warm Air Dryer
Condition: New
Model#: 7ZLW1000E 000
Adjustable Seat & Wash Controls
Stainless Steel 3-in-1 Nozzle
Seat Sensor & Night Light
Heated Seat & Warm Dryer
DIY Install
What’s Included?
Price Comparison
$299 at Lowes
$299 at BioBidet
Warranty
1-Year Warranty
Estimated Delivery
Monday, Sep 26 - Friday, Sep 30
For $149, it should be a bionic bidet.
(1) What does a “catchplate” catch?
(2) Do I really want to know?
@phendrick no
@phendrick Remnants
@phendrick @zhicks1987
So like a peanut dish or a bowl of corn?
Anyone else not able to purchase?
@DavidChurchRN live now. My bad!
@DavidChurchRN, although I’m not close to broke, one reason I am not is because I don’t make $150 purchases in the middle, nor the end of the month!!
Sold out at 12:03am ET
After selling 0 units.
…and it’s sold out. Did they have exactly 1 to sell?
This… can’t possibly be sold out in 2 minutes…
sold out in 3 minutes???
@bfg9000, my screen doesn’t show them being sold out but it’s almost 1AM CST & 2AM EST! Either way, I ain’t buying anyway!
Sold out? Did the Japanese discovery Meh?
what???
According to the stats they sold 0 of these. Looks like a glitch.
@jandrese Aye, seems 'tis.
Sold faster than an IRK
Seems like a crappy deal.
At least for me, it’s not even showing stats other than meh clicks. No states are lit up, so it feels like they had precisely zero to sell
Arrr.
@huntd Yarr.
Intestinal Regret Kit
@pmarin Bravo!
Someone forget to kick off the meh-rathon?
Anyone else think the lovely people from meh either played us or the bots tonight?
I could click buy when it popped up but then said it didn’t know what I was trying to buy
Weird-I mean that it sold out in 3 minutes-they had just one? What a waste of day when they could have sold a number of something. Or, as jandrese said above, maybe it was a glitch.
If this thing WERE “For Sale”, do you think it would clean Harry’s butt??
?
I think they are really hoping everyone will grab the Side Deal… https://meh.com/forum/topics/sidedeal-daily-biobidet-slim-twist-bidet-attachment-with-dual-nozzle
@Euniceandrich
, when I checked out Side Deal it was sold out but when I just now went through your link they’re still available. Strange, VERY STRANGE!! 
Oh that’s strange
Why is there only 1x Brackey Holder? What if I have multiple brackeys to hold?
@drmarble Buy two.
/buy
@jayman007 Oops, sorry. We’re sold out.
@mediocrebot worth a try
@jayman007 @mediocrebot You’re shit out of luck.
Don’t they usually hold some for the morning sales and Members in the afternoon???
/fail
And here I thought it must have been an IRK.
the side deal sold out too
This is very weird.
Every toilet in my home has a bidet as nice or nicer than this one, and yet the fact that it sold out so quickly kind has me wanting one…
They have this same one on SideDeal for $179.99
@lilpaox and now it’s sold out…
@lilpaox were live again. Sorry!
20 minutes into the day and it sucks ass. First I somehow missed clicking the meh button yesterday so that means my consecutive streak of 360 some odd days was broken, and then I get on here at like quarter after midnight and all the seats are gone. So we’re starting off on a real shitty note
@somf69 Sorry to hear of breaking the streak… Your longest streak of 370 days in a row.
@Euniceandrich @somf69
Yeah that really stinks! At least you’ve got that 1 year under your belt, you know it’s doable! Get back on that bike and we’ll congratulate you in another year!
@Euniceandrich @Lynnerizer @somf69 Just so you know his item helps to break streaks as well.
@Euniceandrich @Lynnerizer @somf69 Relax and embrace the freedom of failure.
ok, these- these make really shitty margaritas.
@alacrity Not if you hook them up directly to the blender. That will make a margarita drinking fountain in the toilet… convenient to the toilet too in case you need ii if you consumed too much.
I predict there’s going to be an OHSHIT REPORT.
@Kyeh Arrgh, yer damn tootin’… And then some poor swabby’ll be walkin’ da plank!
Well shit.
Will never understand why people are so weirded out by a bidet.
Do you enjoy having a smelly butt?
Are you so ashamed of your body you think squirting some water on it is strange?
Peak weirdos in the comments.
@xaronax
I don’t see many comments from people weirded out by bidets - mostly comments from people weirded out by this supposed sell-out!
@Kyeh @xaronax Don’t rain on his self-made parade!
@xaronax I am only weirded out by the ones that have a button marked “enema.”
I blame the goat
.
AND IT’S BACK!
And so is the Sidedeal!
Game of Thrones sequel?
I’ve never had a bidet before. Does the little metal sprinkler arm retract when its not spraying? Otherwise, it seems like it would be in the, ahem, splash zone, so to speak.
@crazycarl864 I have a cheap one and a good one. The cheap one, no, but it’s not as long as the nozzle
on the good one, which, while longer, does retract.
@CatFriend @crazycarl864 The water pressure is what extends the sprayer from behind its shield. If there are two nozzles, it may be that one is the “master blaster” and the other is for lady parts (more forward-facing) and “fun mode”.
@CatFriend @crazycarl864 So, circumcised and uncircumcised?
@crazycarl864 I have this company’s next-level better model, which appears to be identical except mine’s controls are remote. Wooo. I forget what I paid for it during a deal of the day at Home Depot. I think it was a little under $200.
The nozzle does retract after each use and it actually pre/post washes itself while in the retracted position. (Just a water spray) You can also have the wand extend out for cleaning, which you will want to do every time you clean your normal toilet bowl.
I think it is crazy that mine had in the instructions to not use harsh chemicals on it and only warm soapy water. Um, a place that gets covered in shit can’t be sprayed with a disenfectant? I called the company and they say Method, Meyers, etc. all fine, just no bleaches. My seat has two little spots on it that are just defects in the plastic that appeared over years of use.
I don’t regret my purchase at all, and I am sure this would be no exception. You will not go back to without.
@phendrick They’re both happy with themselves, so I don’t bring it up.
Hey, look! I can buy it now… but(t) I don’t want to. I mean, if someone wants to give me one and install it, fine.
@mehvid1, I can’t send you one, butt iffen ya send me your bank account number I promise I’ll send ya the money so you can buy one,… Or do ya want two¿?
I bought one. I’ve been wanting one for a while, but wanted all these spiffy features without paying a spiffy price, so this works out great for me. haha
Is this for the round or elongated bidet seat?
@avmercenary They have it listed a 20.8" Length and refer to it as the “BioBidet Elongated Heated Bidet Toilet Seat” so I suspect it’s the longer size.
@avmercenary @stolicat Shame, all I have are Round ones.
@avmercenary @stolicat @TexasDex same here. would have bought if was for round.
@avmercenary @stolicat @TexasDex Amazing. It’s very rare to see a round toilet these days. I miss them.
@avmercenary @Philosopherott @stolicat @TexasDex Same here. Lamost bought it until I read this and realized the toilet I wanted to install it on is round. Guess it’s more common that some think.
@avmercenary @stolicat @TexasDex @zhicks1987
I’ll bet if it was an elongated bowl, you’d miss less.
@avmercenary @stolicat @zhicks1987 I was mostly just determined to get one that’s not ‘comfort height’ aka too high to be comfortable. I’m a fan of the squatty-potty style footrests and having a taller toilet would be counter productive. If they made them with elongated bowls and without the extra height I would’ve gotten it but selection was limited.
I have the basic one Meh offered years ago. TBH, you dont need the heated seat, runway lights, or the hot blow job.
Especially if you don’t have electrical available to plug it into. You don’t even really need hot water. Unless you live in a super cold area and don’t keep the bathroom comfortably warm.
Oh, and Arrrggghh!
@mike808 Aye matey, who needs coffee when you have a refreshingly cool spritz in da mornin’? I just stick me arse over the bow & let the sea air work its magic!
@mike808 I bought that one too. my tap water is quite cold in the winter, but i have neither a hot water line or an outlet near my toilet…so cold water for me.
@bigevilgrape So save your money and get a $40 model.
Maybe the scurvy dogs over on the Amazon or Woot might have the plunder ye be looking for.
I got the (Better) BB-270 here on a 2-fer Tuesday deal. Never hooked up the hot water. I do like the pressure control, though. So it’s a solid buy again and pay for that upgrade feature.
@bigevilgrape Fair warning to ye, if you’re looking to drop yer booty on the Amazon. The BB270 is now like $70! Shiver me timbers!
Bio Bidet BB-270 Duo Dual Nozzle Hot & Cold
https://a.co/5VM0Oex
@mike808 I have the basic one that was like $20 on meh in 2017. I’ll just keep enjoying the icy jets of water.
@ircon96 “Over the bow”? Arrggghhh!
There is a reason it is called the “poop deck”, and a reason it is on the arse end of the ship, matey!
Hoist that dog up to the yardarm!
Fifty lashes! Rip the shirt!
@mike808 Aye, the stern is fer poopin’, but the good spray for cleanin’ yer taint is at the bow, unless ye drive yer ship backwards, ye scallywag. Now get to swabbin’ that poop deck afore i send ye ta meet Davy Jones!
Anyone know is these are easy to self install?
@sglickenhaus I have a different, but identical (water and electrical) requirements, model from this company and I can say no problem at all if you have ever changed a sink faucet. Assuming you have an outlet near the toilet, of course, electrical is another beast.
If your toilet is up to code, it will have a shutoff valve accessible to you from in the bathroom. Look for it on the floor/wall where the hose comes from. Turn it 90* to the right. Flush your toilet. Listen to hear for the tank refilling. If it isn’t your water is off. Still place some towels or a bucket underneath because there is some residual water in the hose. Unscrew from your tank. It comes with a hose that goes to the water tank in the bidet and a spliter that will attach where you just disconnected the hose from the toilet tank. Attach the original supply hose, the new, thinner bidet tank hose, turn back on your water. Look for leaks. Plug in. Enjoy.
@sglickenhaus I got a different BioBidet model from woot about four years ago, so I’m not speaking… er… writing with knowledge of this specific model.
The installation manual is here: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2293/0089/files/LW1000_MANUAL_1f6e8bb8-76be-408b-9a34-ab09c52762bc.pdf?v=1651175908
You’ll need an adjustable wrench or channel-lock or slip-joint pliers to deal with the plumbing and nuts to mount the thing, plus a screwdriver or two. It took me about 20 minutes, IIRC.
And it is definitely worth it… while I pretty much never use the blow-dry feature of mine, I was able to get through the first 15 months of the pandemic with only one warehouse-sized package of toilet paper.
Years ago, a friend was over and somehow the topic of bidets came up and I was secretly hoping he’d STFU since I didn’t want another house project, but he kept talking, my wife said she’d always wanted one, and a few days later, I was installing a $40ish (unheated-water) one from Bez-mart. It was fantastic. I typically use a bathroom on the other side of the house (separate bathrooms, the secret to a long marriage), so I bought another for “my” bathroom which tapped into the cold and hot water supplies and it was even more fantastic. When we eventually remodeled both bathrooms, we replaced our old toilets with actual bidet toilets (vs. these bidet accessories) and have never looked back. (haha) I remember thinking these were stupid until I read something which said that if a bird pooped on your hand, would you just wipe it off with a paper napkin and call it a day? Of course not. You’d try to wash it off as thoroughly as possible with at least water, so I was sold. Thank you for listening to my TErDx Talk.
@andymand You’d use soap.
Where’s the soap?
I really want to buy one of these but I do not have a GFCI outlet nearby the toilet. I am not going to run an extension cord all the way from the wall on the other side of the sink either. What I really need to do is a small remodel of the bathroom and have a GFCI installed so I have more options of Bidets to buy in the future.
I bought one of the cheaper ones that do not require electricity when they were offered here last time. It eventually developed a small leak from a crack in the plastic where the top and bottom molds are glued together. I threw it away and need to get a replacement as soon as possible. But right now, I can only use the non-electrical versions.
@cengland0 You sound like a good candidate for today’s SideDeal…
@Euniceandrich Thanks for the suggestion but I’ll wait for a better model. In the meantime, I bought a manual squeeze bottle from aliexpress which sort of works but is definitely lacking the water pressure. Once I get the GFCI installed, I’ll be back to buy a more professional unit.
@cengland0 You probably do not need to remodel to install a GFCI outlet. Many people can do it by following the instructions that come with it. Check the instructions (available on line) and at worst an electrician can do it, likely without rewiring anything.
@Euniceandrich Thanks for pointing that out. I’ve got one in the way!
@Euniceandrich @Tripod2 Or you can swap out your circuit breaker for a GFCI verson and protect the entire run. Most houses built these days do it that way. I’d recommend getting an electrician to swap out your circuit breakers to GFCI, though. Just the bathrooms and the kitchen runs.
@Euniceandrich @Tripod2
See my notes above on the BB270, mateys!
Bio Bidet BB-270 Duo ($70)
https://a.co/5VM0Oex
@andyw @cengland0 Whether a GFCI can be easily installed in a bathroom is largely a function of the age of the structure. The older the house, the more difficult it often becomes. In the case of mine (built in 1959, and wired somewhat deficient even for that day) it’s a right royal pain to add a genuine grounding circuit to the bathroom in the back of the house. GFCI breakers for my panel simply do not exist, so that’s a no-go at the start.
Almost none of the sockets anywhere in the house are wired with 14/3; outside of the kitchen and the laundry room, it’s nearly all 14/2 or even 16/2 in a few instances. For that bathroom I mentioned, the attic access is virtually nil, so fishing the lead up through the wall in the absence of conduit is No Fun At All. And the wall where one would most like to have a box is full of pocket sliding door. The wall over the vanity is entirely plate glass mirror to six feet above the floor. There was one three-prong socket in the bathroom already, above that mirror in the light fixture (and switched via the same circuit as the light, dammit), but as was not unusual in those days, the “ground” was actually wired to the neutral - in a structure that has three-phase supply. At some point, someone had tried to add a true ground for the circuits in the kitchen by connecting the ground lugs in the sockets to the water pipes - and then the water supply line coming in from the meter sprang a leak, and the pipe coming up to the service valve got replaced by PVC.
Old houses can be such fun.
@andyw Is remodel the right word? Maybe not. But to run a wire behind the wall is difficult unless you remove the sheetrock and then drill holes in the 2x4s to run the electrical wire from the current electrical box on the other side of the bathroom.
I could probably tap into electricity going through the on the other side of the bathroom wall which has a hallway and some electrical outlets so it must have a run in that wall somewhere. However, I don’t want to have a circuit breaker labeled for a dining room or livingroom turn off my toilet GFCI.
Suppose I could just dig a trench in the sheetrock to run armored cable and then spackle it up when I’m done but I’m not the kind of person to do a half-assed job so I’ll do it the proper and professional way even though it’s the most time consuming. Only problem is that I haven’t been motivated to do much lately so I’m not sure it will get done before I die of old age.
@cengland0 Some projects are bigger than they seem, until yo plan it, as you are doing. Some are bigger than they seem after you start them, even if you planned it! I’ve got lots of those in my head that may not make it before my best by date!
@andyw @cengland0 @werehatrack
Yep. Got any fabric insulated wire? How about knob & post? I’ve got some of both in the crawlspace.
And in the kitchen that was remodeled a couple of years before we bought the house, there are GFI outlets with no ground wire.
Is the previous owner of every house an incompetent idiot?
@blaineg @cengland0 @werehatrack I’ve had remnants of knob and tube, but no active wires on them. I have not seen fabric insulation lately. In this and my previous house there were gas pipes left in the walls (for lighting, not the kitchen) as well as many pipes sticking out where there were fixtures. There was no gas in them. I had to cut one away to hang a ceiling fan.
@andyw @blaineg @cengland0 @werehatrack About old houses, I have a house built 1926, and still has some knob-and-tube IN USE with fabric covered wires. Yeah, been meaning to get to that.
The kitchen was rewired long ago before I bought it, with grounded 20A outlets. (but no GFCIs yet). But you may be surprised to learn that you CAN put GFCIs on ungrounded circuits! They still provide some protection because they can detect a difference in current flowing through one wire and NOT coming back in the other. (i.e. maybe it’s going through your foot onto a wet cement floor — or in the case if a bidet seat I don’t want to imagine what it’s flowing through).
To use a GFCI without a ground, you also are supposed to affix a “No Equipment Ground” little sticker that comes in most retail GFCI boxes. And don’t use GFCI pass-through, which IMHO is more trouble than it’s worth anyway.
I own a remote controlled model from BioBidet and absolutely love it. It has the same functions. The heated air drying is by far my least used feature. With any of these models, there will be a short second before the heated water reaches its full temperature, but still a nice feature. The heated seat is definitely something I enjoy more than I thought I needed, and as a guy, the light comes in surprisingly useful. I do not like how the brightness cannot be adjusted on mine.
I have left some comments to others, I very much recommend this company’s product as I have enjoyed mine for many years of daily use. If you have an electrical outlet nearby, and are on the fence, this is a great price for a lot of features to see what all the hype about these things is about.
I don’t own this model so I can’t really rate it, but I do have a bidet and highly recommend it if you can swing the price. I can’t keep my youngest out of my bathroom because they will only go on the heated seat bidet.
Damn, was going to order it but then realized it’s only the elongated version
AFTERBURNERS ENGAGED
@steelopus You can’t fool me, those are the impulse engines.
@blaineg @steelopus Indeed you are correct.
@blaineg @steelopus Exactly what i thought when I saw that. I just didn’t have time to go fuck around with Gimp and do it justice.
@blaineg @steelopus
I was also going to mashup this:
with this
All my toilets are fancy colored ones with annoying curves so no bidet will properly install.
There are more choices for a toilet seat than number 1 or number 2. There is round or elongated. Hmm
“auto wash and child wash” but wait- will it was an suv or a dog?
@richferg
Dog in position ready to go
It will wash cats too
Also though some cats may still prefer toilet paper
After a trip to Hawaii in which we got a really really nice suite, the rooms bathrooms had these bidets. Let’s just say the wife insisted upon the need and so the project commenced. The tough part was running the power, who again has an outlet under their toilet? Now two of our bathrooms have them and one had to be replaced already after 4 years. Not all bidets are the same BTW , get the Japanese built ones because for some reason the Japanese really really like bidets and we are playing catch up.
@manual I first encountered a full bidet toilet (built as part of toilet, not an add-on seat) at a nice business hotel in Tokyo about 30 years ago. (Hotel Paid by work luckily, they were expensive even then). Yes the toilet was a new discovery and very nice — I realized how “caveman” we are in the U.S.
I got a different BioBidet, the 6800 model, which seems to have the same features as this one, but with a wall-mounted remote rather than a side panel.
It’s been great, always leaves me feeling nice and clean and my wife loves the seat warmer function. Only downside is that I’ve had to replace the seat twice–once under warranty, once at my own expense–because the heater stops working.
@TexasDex I was happy with the one attached to the side — can’t lose the remote, or have the batteries go dead. On the other hand, some comments reminded me that for men with poor aim, it means the controls are in a position for “splash damage” — especially if you have boys, or perhaps men who shop too much in casemates.com. So the remote control on the wall might be better.
EDIT or perhaps for a prank you could take the remote to the next room, and when someone in the house tries to use the toilet. you could press a bunch of buttons and give them a surprise!
/buy
@nostrom0 It worked! Your order number is: tonal-taunting-juice
/image tonal taunting juice
I don’t know who’s buying these but only an ass would enjoy such a product.
@sglewis Yep happy ass here.
(well, that’s a horse, so horse’s ass here…)
Is this round or elongated?
@speedy102 I believe it is elongated from the description.
@speedy102 Its elongated, I verified this from Woot support after my purchase which sucks since I need a round one.
Is this elongated or round?
@speedy102 Not telling.
@blaineg @speedy102 is it elongated, or are you just happy to see me?
The GFCI is what kills this for me. I don’t have one in a 5ft radius of the toilet.
We’re about to start a major revamping of the old house’s electrical, so I think I’ll add GFCI outlets next to the toilets …
The budget BioBidet I got years ago from Woot gave up the ghost last year. So I replaced it with a Japanese model (Toto) that has some nice upgrades. They do know how to do it.
From the Specs:
For additional help, trained Biodet support agents are readily available to walk you through the process.
Biodet support agents my arse!
Been wanting an upgraded seat with bidet built in but couldn’t justify the $300+ pricetag…
You got me, meh.
/image muddled haunted flea
/giphy muddled haunted flea
bidet haiku
My butt needs cleaning
Toilet paper is so quaint
Press button instead
The heated water
It makes all the difference
Don’t want a cold butt
So many buttons
Pressed the pink one by mistake
I don’t have that part
Eh I’ll just buy a used one.
When are they going to ship?
@jchilders235 if yours still hasn’t shipped, contact support since it’s now past the expected delivery date.
So I received mine and am already reaping the benefits!
It doesn’t fit very well on the toilet I wanted to install it on, oh well. As I’m trying to put it on an alternative toilet, I find that the rubber coated bolts on the underside of the toilet wind up not providing a very snug seal, though. How are other people handling this?
There seem to be two options:
After typing this up, I’m just gonna take out the included mounting screws and rubber-mount nuts and instead use the hardware that I took off my old toilet seat, but I’ll leave this comment in case it helps anybody else.
This is a big problem for me because of my particularly…
@slipperyp If the old hardware will fit, then go for it. Your toilet may have larger than normal seat mount holes, or the ceramic is thicker than they expected there, in which case the rubber encased nuts aren’t compressing that center section once you start turning the screw.
What you could try also is to push the rubber into the toilet seat mount hole, nut side towards the floor, from underneath the toilet, and then see if you can catch the nut with the screw from the top.
This was an awesome buy, and a great addition to my home!!! Just wish I had of bought two!!
WORKER BEES! HERCULES! TURKEY GREASE! AWESOME!