Ace HS 1000 Bidet

The Ace HS 1000 is a bidet that can be easily installed on any existing toilet. It includes all of the tools that you’ll need along with a detailed manual to ensure that anyone can easily install this toilet seat bidet.

If you’re looking for all of the hygienic benefits of more expensive bidets without the cost, the Ace HS 1000 bidet might be the perfect solution. Read more

Ask Amy – Bidet Party

We found an interesting article while searching for bidet news about a woman who thinks it’s “tasteless” for a neighbor of hers to throw a “bidet party” after her bathroom renovation is complete.  She goes on about how she assumes her neighbor is trying to be funny with the invitation, and she wants to know what she should do. Read more

Eco-Friendly Bidet Use

Much has been made of the bidet’s environmentally-friendly aspects.  Allowing households to function day-to-day without relying on wasteful toilet paper, it’s one of the smartest fixtures homeowners can ever install.  Of course, ensuring that your bidet leaves as little environmental footprint as possible can best be achieved by using it more consciously.

1. Water pressure

Use light water pressure if that’s all you need.  If you just have to wash off the area, instead of needing to remove dirt, a soft gush of water should water.  That simple behavior adjustment can mean gallons upon gallons of water saved throughout the year.

2. Electricity

Between warm water, heated seats, warm air, the remote control, electronic sensors and a host of other special features, premium bidets can use up quite a bit of electricity.   As such, it’s prudent to do your part in trying to conserve it, should that be an option.

Whenever you can, use regular water instead warm, turn off heating on the seats if the weather’s not too cold and shut off the sensors and automatic controls if they’re not necessary.  Unless you have seniors or disabled parties living at home, much of the automated functionalities in electronic bidets aren’t all that essential.  Use only what you need.

3.  Working condition

Perform regular tune-up to make sure your bidet is in tip-top condition.  If you notice leaks between connecting pipes, always attend to it immediately, to avoid wasting water.  Make sure to keep the facility clean to avoid damaging it.

Teaching Children To Use A Bidet

When potty training your child, it would be a good idea to introduce them to using a bidet as well.  After all, what better way to raise them avoiding toilet papers entirely than to get them used to washing themselves with a cleansing gush of water?

Easy To Learn

Since a bidet facilitates very easy cleaning, it won’t be all that hard to learn.  In fact, the convenience of a bidet will probably make the whole process easy.  There’s no toilet paper to wipe with and no difficult areas to reach into.  Just teach them what buttons to press to get clean and it’s done.

The Bidet Is Not A Toy

That’s a lesson that you’ll probably need to repeat a dozen or so times.  Kids are naturally playful and curious, so a contraption with buttons and dials is automatically a source of amusement.  Once they discover the gushing water that spouts, seats that heat up and air that magically blows, it’s not too far-fetched to imagine the bidet-fitted toilet bowl as a setting for the next superhero battle.  Needless to say, it’s doesn’t seem all that palatable to have your kid turning the toilet into a playground for an extended amount of time.

Teaching Hygiene

When you teach your children about a bidet, make sure to point out that it’s a lesson about hygiene.  Bidets are great pieces of technology that allows you to stay fresh, smell good and avoid bacterial infections that can result out of improper cleaning.

Bathroom Amenities For A “Green” Bathroom

Concerned about the environment?  If you are, updating your bathroom with amenities that help in conservation efforts should be among your chief priorities when working to bring more sustainability into your home.

What things can you do to reduce your bathroom’s carbon footprint?

Install a bidet. If toilet paper and its excesses repulse you, there is no better replacement for it than a bidet.  Not only does it get rid of toilet paper’s wasteful manufacturing process,  it cleans and washes dirt off much better too.  You’ll not only spare a ton of trees from being cut down and turned into pulp, using a bidet prevents the use of tons of waters and chemicals to produce those sheets of posterior wipes.

Shower Timer. A shower timer is a good tool to keep tabs on your water usage.  Most people don’t even have any idea about how much clean water they’re flushing down the drain when they spend extended time under the shower.  With a shower timer, you can languor just enough to clean up and be immediately alerted when your shower time is reaching far beyond your cleaning needs.

Water-Saving Shower Heads. There are many new shower heads that help save water.  Instead of letting the stream of liquid out in the traditional way, it concentrates the gush so that less water needs to be sprayed out of the nozzle while offering the same refreshing wash.

Low-Consumption Lighting. Unless you’re shaving or putting on make-up in front of the bathroom mirror, there’s really no need to use high levels of illumination while you’re there.  In fact, you can use a relatively dim low-consumption light in the bathroom while accomplishing most needs to save bundles on electricity.

I Didn’t Know I Needed A Bidet Until I Found You

Eleven years ago, I would see people carrying cell phones and all I can imagine was how unnecessary it looked like.  Why would I want people to be able to call me anytime they want?  That sounded ridiculous, to say the least.  Around Christmas of the same year, my brother gave me a cell phone as a gift.  I don’t think I’ve spent 24 hours without using a cell phone since.

Throughout life, we come across things we don’t think we need until we actually use them.  Once we do, they quickly entrench themselves as indispensable in our daily lives.

Think about the things you find difficult to live without now, such as the internet, Tivo or Facebook, all of which you probably never thought you needed at one point in time.  The bidet has been the same way for me.  When I first saw one in my hotel room during a trip to Asia, I couldn’t even make out what it does.  Now, I can’t imagine using the bathroom without washing myself with one.

Honestly, I never even thought it was necessary to wash the posterior every time we used the toilet.  Like most Americans, I was a toilet paper guy.  I wiped the soil off my rear using several sheets of toilet paper, dumped them in with the bowl and flushed about my merry way.

Once I sat on that toilet seat bidet in that hotel room, though, it was as though my whole programming of how to use the bathroom crumbled before my eyes.  Those heated seats had me hooked before I even let out a fart.  When I pressed the button to spray the water, the warm aerated gush put a smile on my face.

I never knew I needed a bidet.  Now, I can’t live without one.

Updating Your Small Bathroom With A Toilet-Seat Bidet

Renovating your bathroom?  It’s a great time to change up your bathroom’s looks, with all sorts of options in fixtures and decorations available today.  Even without a large space available, you can fix up your bathroom to foster as much luxury and comfort as you desire with the right choice in modern amenities.

When researching possible makeovers you can perform on your bathroom, you will likely come across the suggestion of installing a bidet.  Combining comfort, function and water conservation in a single fixture, every modern bathroom should come with one.

However, European style bidets, which require installing a separate washer basin, isn’t the most practical for small bathrooms.  The space it takes up will have to eat into other areas of the washroom – potentially affecting the size of your shower area and sink.

Instead of foregoing the creature comforts and unique benefits of this fixture, though, you can opt for a toilet seat bidet.  Requiring no more space than you already have, you can simply install it in place of your current toilet seat, providing all the same benefits without taking up extra room.

If you have the funds for it, spring for a high-end toilet seat bidet, which comes with all the luxury and opulence you can desire from a bathroom amenity.  Think about it: heated seats, warm water spray, hot air dryer, seat sensors, remote controlled seat covers and all sorts of other brilliant functions.  Isn’t that what every modern bathroom should offer?

Don’t Scream, It’s Just A Bidet

Something funny happens the first time a few guests use the bathroom in our home and fire off the attachment bidet we have installed: they scream.  Yep, they scream almost as loud as I imagine they would when a cockroach or a mouse suddenly passes over their feet while they sit on the toilet.

I guess it’s to be expected.  Folks unacquainted with the gushing stream of water from bidets will likely find the sensation unusual.  How did you feel about your first time with a bidet?

One of our more colorful guests described it like getting a cold enema – she said she had her mouth open in a muffled scream the whole time.  That was back when we didn’t have a hot water bidet and used a $50 toilet seat attachment that dispensed water directly from the pipe.  While that rig definitely wasn’t bad, it didn’t do us any favors during winter when the water was much colder than usual and felt like a popsicle passing through your backside.

We got our high-tech bidet after that, with warm seats, hot water and built-in dryer.  While considerably more expensive, it’s been worth every penny.  The warm air dryer, for one, allowed us to totally get rid of toilet paper in the bathroom, which we used to have to dry off after washing with the bidet.  The warm water option also allowed guests to be a little less frenzied the first time they turned a bidet on.  Cold water just has a way of taking people by surprise down there, which might not be the most pleasant introductory experience.

Finally, we’ve learned to caution guests right before they visit the toilet, “Whatever happens, don’t scream, it’s just a bidet.”  Of course, that never stopped them from shrieking anyway.

That Foolish Affinity With Toilet Paper

Every time friends visit my home and they finish using the bathroom, the conversation inevitably turns to toilet paper for the simple reason that I have none.  Yep, my friends frequently come out of the bathroom aghast, sometimes even offended, that they just relieved themselves without having any toilet paper at hand.

I’ve been a bidet user for a good part of two years.  Unfortunately, few of my friends have followed suit.

Unlike folks in many parts of Europe and Asia, Americans have an unusual affinity to toilet paper. Wiping themselves free from the remnants of their excretions seem so well-ingrained, it’s nearly impossible to get over.

For proof, try visiting a home and living trade show where bidet retailers have a booth.  You’ll see people shy away, repulsed at the very idea of washing their posteriors instead of wiping it with paper.

The sad fact, however, is that bidets can clean dirt from those hard to reach areas better than brushing with paper can ever hope to do.  If you get kechup on your hands, for instance, would you feel cleaner wiping it with a tissue or washing it over a running stream of water then patting it dry afterwards?  The same holds true for your tush, believe it or not.

Different people have their own theories as to why Americans continue to make do with their toilet papers, even scenting and adorning them with flowery decorations.  Whichever one you subscribe to, it’s hard to imagine how it can ever feel more hygienic and sanitary to clean yourself using them.  With bidets, you don’t even need to touch the area, allowing the aerated stream of water to clean it out for you.

Why don’t you give the toilet paper some rest and try a bidet for once?

Conserve Resources By Eliminating Toilet Paper With Bidets

Eco-conscious homeowners are ever on the lookout for new technologies that will help reduce our use of resources and the bidet has proven to be a valuable home addition that achieves just that.

Do you know that in the United States alone, people use an estimated 36.5 billion rolls of toilet paper annually?  That means over 15 million trees cut down from forests, 473 billion gallons of water used up during manufacturing, 17 terawatts of electricity powering the toilet paper factories and 253,000 tons of chlorine employed for bleaching the pulp.  Now, imagine how much resources are wasted for toilet paper production worldwide.

If you’re at all concerned about reducing your household’s environmental footprint, the bidet is an easy way to achieve it, single-handedly eliminating the need for toilet papers in the bathroom.  A single toilet seat bidet (you can find decent quality, non-electric ones for as low as $50) can be attached to your existing toilet and plugged into your plumbing with just a short amount of work.  If you hire a contractor to install it, the whole job should cost you no more than $150.

Using only water to clean you up after doing the dirty deed,  it uses very little resources for essentially the same function as toilet papers.  Apart from the cleaning, some bidets even include a drying mechanism so you really don’t need any toilet paper to wipe your posterior dry.  Alternatively, many green-conscious bidet users keep bidet towels to pat themselves dry instead of toilet papers to totally eliminating the pulp product from their bathrooms.

If you’re really earnest about saving those rainforests, you may want to get serious about installing a bidet.   It really will help you achieve those conservation goals faster than ever before, as well as hold off on the use of plenty of resources in the process.

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