Get ready for the experience of traveling, needing a shit and then realizing there won’t be a bidet.
Vacations are so much less enjoyable now. Like it shouldn’t ruin my whole experience, but it kinda does.
Go to Japan, ig?
as an arab you couldn’t imagine my shock when i travelled abroad and experienced the joy of hemorrhoids for the first time lol
They say travel reveals new sides of your self.
I spend a lot of time working away from the office at sites.
I have a bidet at home and specifically save my shits for when I get home.
My ass just dosnt feel properly clean these days if I have to shit like a commoner.
You can use a portable bidet. It’s not as good as a mounted one but still.
Shouldn’t that outlet, be a GFI outlet? Literally to uh, save your ass.
Most likely behind a GFCI outlet. Usually, its the one closest to the door and everything else daisy chains off of it.
Maybe even outlets in other rooms! That’s really fun when a random outlet stops working
I know of a house that has the upstairs bathroom daisychained off of the downstairs kitchen. They are not above/below each other.
I’ll never understand why that much wire routing is worth a $20 GFCI.
It could be connected in line with a GFCI outlet or breaker.
You guys don’t do GFCI everywhere?
In the U.S., no. Federal code only requires GFCI in certain areas like kitchens, bathrooms, garages, laundry rooms, basement, etc. State and local governments can amend the federal code if they want; a common amendment is to make GFCI only required in unfinished areas of basements instead of the entire basement. Some places may even have more strict codes than the federal code. There are also some electricians that voluntarily only install GFCI breakers (my brother’s company does this), but it’s not required.
Where are you that they do that? Under water? Lol
Europe, we call it RCCB and it’s in the electrical distribution board on all circuits. GFCI isn’t only useful in wet conditions, it protects you everywhere where there is the possibility of a circuit between a live wire and the ground with you in the middle.
Although it’s an absolute pain in the arse in certain scenarios. Surge protectors essentially present as a leak to earth any time they do their job, so my mandatory RCCBs on every circuit turn minor mains fluctuations into permanent outages.
I really need to see if I can legally run one circuit that isn’t RCD protected for my homelab…
Put the surge protector before your RCD?
You understand that the RCD is (mandatorily) in the electrical distribution panel where it hands off to the utility supply right?
I don’t know all the details. Are you sure you’re literally not allowed to place anything before the RCD? Technically SPD then RCD makes the most sense to me, so it seems strange to me that it wouldn’t be allowed, but I couldn’t find any clear answer.
100% correct, code violation and that person is asking for trouble.
Not every outlet in the room needs to be a GFCI.
in fact, some places specifically forbid chaining GFCI outlets
Confused congrats from Germany.
Is that really what you call a bidet? Because our bidets here are unrelated to the toilet and that’s a Japanese toilet. The bidet is the one for washing https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidet.
The Japanese toilet uses wash sprayers to act like a bidet. Takes up less room. For some reason, Americans like dirty asses.
I know bidets and Japanese toilets but the image shown is the latter and not a bidet that’s why I’m curious if that definition is a US thing or something, I like learning.
The image shown most definitely contains a bidet.
It’s a washlet bidet, which attaches either underneath the toilet seat or as part of the toilet seat itself, and usually has controls that jut out to the right of the seat(to the right from the perspective of the seated person).
The toilet in this picture has a washlet bidet installed.
This is separate from the kind of bidets that are installed separately from the toilet, as is common in many other countries.
I think removing the need to move the dirty bottom from one hole to another is a key innovation.
Interesting, thanks!
Dual purpose. He added bidet functionality.
99% of Americans have dirty assholes, because they are dirty assholes.
You are what you eat.
Sensitive American with a dirty asshole detected
Some people clutch pearls, others clench dingleberries.
I couldn’t live without one.
It’s so much cleaner and you save so much money and it has other uses too.
What other uses? Lol
😏
For those who hesitate making the investment, portable squirt bottles for this purpose are available for less than $25.
Vietnam has a good way of doing it. You just tee in one of those kitchen sink sprayer heads to the water supply. You could even tee it off from the bathroom sink warm water.
Looks like the spray heads are $11-15, plus a hose and a tee fitting.
India too. Lots of Asia went this route. “bum gun” where I’ve been. It was a real blessing when I got food poisoning.
Same goes for Thailand, definitely a good cheap option if you got the angle right. Messy otherwise. Always do a pressure check into the bowl if it’s a public toilet…
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The bidets I buy install on the toilet and cost about the same.
I once heard the phrase “a water fountain for your butthole” and hear it every time I see one.
This is a bidet though
A toilet attachment is still a kind of bidet.
I’d be curious to hear if this impacts your energy usage in any appreciable way.
I have mine on a smart plug to monitor it (Emporia). It uses about 3 kilowatts per week. For reference the whole house uses about 100 kwh per week. The cost to operate is similar to my dishwasher… bidet gets more uses but much shorter durations. The heating element must be really small because that’s not much power. It might vary between manufacturers tho.
How much does it draw under load? I ask because I’ve always wanted one of these, but I’m on solar and batteries so I have to monitor load and usage a bit more closely than most.
It spikes up to 300-400 watts while in use, sometimes a little more if playing around with the actuators at the same time. The model I have is Alpha UX Pearl for reference.
You don’t have to get an electric one either, lots just work off of existing water pressure. The heating is a nice but optional feature IMO
Oh yeah… not sure I’d handle a blast of cold water first thing in the morning very well though
I got one that has a hot and cold water hookup, so no electrical connection needed.
see, that’s the thing - if it’s first thing, your cold water pipes will be room temp because they’ve been sitting there all night.
obvs dependent on usage throughout the night and who else uses it in the morning, but at least in my house, it takes some time for me to get actually cold water upstairs in the morning
The fear and shock of unholy caress is better than caffeine in the morning. Seriously though, you get used to it.
Appart of the heating options I doubt it’s noticeable
And why would one want a warm seat??!
edit: forgot about the dryer, I don’t know how it works actually, I have a really basic one without electricity
Japanese buildings often run the heat at low levels in the winter.
You ever sit on a really cold toilet seat?
I tried one with a dryer but I didn’t like it. It just ended up circulating poop air and didn’t do a good job drying. Maybe other models do it better but a few squares of toilet paper do the job for me.
I’m so jealous.
I saw this Pic and my first thought was “I miss Japan…”
I see another fan of …the bidet sketch.
Christ I see you went all in there… I bought a $30 one. Decided if I need to, I’ll upgrade. Never felt the need to upgrade. I just replaced it after like 5 years because it stopped working as well but just bought another cheap one. I see no need to have 8 settings to blow water on your asshole and or clam.
If you were to live someplace cold in winter and tended to drop steamers at night, well, you might make different decisions.
Nah, I just deal with getting a blast of cold fucking water numbing me right up! But yeah, it’d be nice to have one with at least a warm water feature. I could get one but it would just look so weird the way I’d have to tap into my hot water line from the bathroom sink I never found it worth it. Yeah, I could totally run a 4 foot flexible pipe along the wall even turning a corner and then finding a way to conceal it but if I did that, I’d have to add it to the list of other extra ass shit I’d be doing on a rental that I won’t be in for long m
They have electric heaters in the toilet seat for your butt water. Don’t ask me how they make it safe, I’m a buttologist by birth, not by trade
I mean I’ve never made a bidet. Okay I’ve made a bidet but it was out of parts of older, broken bidets that doesn’t count
Yeah I looked into these but the electrical outlet is also on the other side of the room next to the sink. I have 1 (so 2 outlets). I just wanted the most non-intrusive way to have a clean butt and the cold one was the option. That being said, I’ll never go back! I just feel dirty when I don’t use it.
I don’t even have a butthole anymore and sometimes I want to use one (hot of course, I ain’t a masochist. Okay I ain’t that kind of masochist I do ride a bike) just for old times sake
I was at a friend’s house and he has a bidet. Seat warmer automatic lid actuator, and everything. It was nasty, though, so I started wondering if the bidet actually makes sure to not blast the remains of whomever’s last night’s taco bell diarrhea straight into my small intestines or if we’re poop buddies now by means of involuntary stool transplant.
A bidet that fancy almost certainly has a nozzle purge sequence prior to commencing the blasting.
my biddet is just the bare minimum, no heating or anything. it’s powered by the water pressure, and the dial has to pass a self cleaning segment both to turn on and to turn off.
I mean, stool transplants are good for you (they treat the shit before they give you a pill of shit anyways it’s not like bidet shit spatters) I’d kindly tell your buddy his bidet is gross. He’d probably want to keep it clean. Like, if there’s something keeping him from cleaning it, he might be sick or something. Need a hand.
My dude. You got a good one. This is hardly a dull day.
Especially if the water heater is off.
Welcome to the powerblassting club!
Time to upgrade to the turbo nozzle!
