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Cheapest alternative maybe the teapot looking device from Indian sub-continent, known as a: lota. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lota_(vessel)
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> ie you push a button and then it sprays water over the sprinkler. Does it spray bleach or soap or just plain water? You wouldn't wash your hands with just water.
Bleach? I would hope not. This is spraying your anus, which you should avoid using soaps (or holy shit, bleach?) and only use water or specific soaps. Same with your penis, which I hope you're not washing with regular soap (or bleach)
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> Regular cold water is nowhere near as bad as you'd assume. Perhaps not in California. But here in Calgary, Alberta, I assure you it is much worse than you'd assume.
I'm not sure how much water a typical cleansing will require; our cold-water one is on its way to the house now. But I reasoned it would probably not require more than a 1-2 second blast. Given that it's plumbed in at the toilet tap, and that you'd use it before flushing, I would presume the water would be relatively close to room temperature, as the supply line is indoors just below the seat. That should be plenty f…
Every time I hear someone say that they stopped using toilet paper after switching to a bidet, I have some serious questions. Because I've used bidets and washlets of all kinds, and I've never met one that actually cleaned fully without also rubbing/wiping. So, ok, using wet paper can get you much cleaner and is gentler than dry paper, but blasting wet feces droplets all over the place with a jet spray alone isn't so…
blasting wet feces droplets all over the place This is the only thing I don't get about bidets. Unless I'm missing something it's like unavoidable to get droplets on your hand/spreayer for the manual types? I personally wouldn't really care, but I just wonder why not more people make a fuzz about this. Again, maybe I'm missing something.
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> Regular cold water is nowhere near as bad as you'd assume. Perhaps not in California. But here in Calgary, Alberta, I assure you it is much worse than you'd assume.
Seattle checking in. Just used a questionably accurate meat thermometer to check the water coming out of our tap. It looks to be about 6C / 42F. Brisk!
When we had our baby and she was 1, we started cleaning her by teaching her how to sit on the toilet and washing with a hand held bidet. It was much nicer on her bum, significantly less rashes. We’d wipe off with tissue but it was less friction and sweat would be cleaned off.
Bidets are the right thing to do if you care about your ass and environment. It just feels so freaking good.
Yeah winter could be bad but usually it is tolerable.
From cleanest / most practical to dirtiest:
1. Real bidet with warm water + soap https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/Bidet_Ego_Kolo.jpg
2. Shower + soap
3. Bidet sprayer (cold water) + soap
4. Bidet sprayer (cold water)
5. Toiler paper
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I've owned both, I agree. The other "big" feature of a plugged in biden is meant to be the blower/dryer, but at least in my one (TOTO branded) it is a waste of time. If the blower actually worked (e.g. Dyson Airblade), it would be a significant benefit, but as it stands I agree you get 80% with a simple spray toilet seat (other 20% is heated water, maybe the moving head a little, although you still have to shift your…
How well does it work if your backside could be mistaken for a Yeti?
My wife made a joke about a bidet a few years ago, so also as a joke I bought us one for her birthday. The $60 attachment kind where you just plumb in a splitter from the source that fills the toilet tank. It was a hit, so we bought one for family friends for a birthday - high hilarity as we heard the reports from their kids - and then more for our extended family at Christmas. Shocked reactions around the Christmas…
There is a whole set of pains involved in not washing with water after the fact.
We used the shower for a while, but it's a huge timesink.
We kind of solved with squirt bottles currently.
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Don't shave your ass-hair: https://www.craigslist.org/about/best/lax/35274458.html
Done that. Went hiking a tall mountain afterwards. Regretted it.
Has anyone with a hairy butt crack had success with bidets? My limited experience with them in Japan involved an incident that went like this: - Did a not-so-solid poop and had poo stuck in my ass hair - Used warm bidet water jet on max pressure for a good minute or two to clean - Wiped with toilet paper to dry my ass only to discover that it was still far from clean - Toilet paper disintegrated while wiping so I now…