• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    2 days ago

    Bidet. $30 game changer. Don’t ask questions, just hook it up (it’s easy), and try it.

    You’re welcome.

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      Ok, I guess I’ll be that guy. Every time they are mentioned, it’s always people proseltyzing. It made me consider one, but I never pulled the trigger. All of the arguments I heard felt kind of unconvincing, and I couldn’t justify buying one without trying it first.

      Then I bought a house, and it came with two of them. I was excited to try them out and see what all of the fuss was about. The thing is… The ones I have suck. Now, one of them seems to have weak pressure, so it could just be a bad one. However, the other one feels like it’s trying to clean the back of my teeth, and it still doesn’t do anything I couldn’t do with paper. Sure, it might get the job done slightly faster, but I still need to use paper to at least dry off after I’m done.

      Maybe a better one could change my mind, but for us, they sit there, mostly unused.

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        I think its better to dry off with paper than to smear poo around with it, but that’s a personal preference.

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        2 days ago

        You need the ones that have an “AI” aiming feature but the AI is actually a japanese man sitting in his cubical remote controlling it.

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        I installed this for less then 20€ and can’t live without it anymore. I use a few toilet papers to dry my butt, it’s already absolutely clean 90% of the time. My whole family can’t go back to just wipe.

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        Maybe try a different model. I’ve got a simple one from Amazon that was only about $30. Now that yours is already installed on the tank, it should be easy to swap out a new one.

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        it still doesn’t do anything I couldn’t do with paper

        You are supposed to use paper and then the bidet.

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          Other way around. Save the toilet paper for drying a clena ass, not smearing the mess around before cleaning it.

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        2 days ago

        Yep, bidet people are suuuuuper-fucking-weird to the point of having some kind of anal fixation.

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        It attaches to the float mechanism, so it’s pretty easy to install. Only about 15 minutes, and the results are so worth it.

        It would be worth it even if you had to pay a plumber to install it. Now that I’ve lived with one, I’d pay $200 to have one installed.

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          My old apartment toilet didn’t actually have a way to disconnect the hose from the bottom of the float mechanism. Like the hose went all the way up into the tank, instead of simply screwing onto the bottom. As far as I could tell, it would require replacing the entire float mechanism (and hose) with a new one, which was more work (and money) than I was willing to put into a toilet that I didn’t even own.

          Even searching online for how to disconnect it was unhelpful, because every post basically boiled down to “just unscrew it and it should come loose.” But it very clearly wasn’t going to come loose, because the hose ran all the way up into the center of the mechanism; The screw simply held the mechanism in place. I’ve never seen another one like it before or since, but they 100% do exist.

          It was particularly annoying because I was already used to using a bidet. I moved into the new place, and discovered after the move-in that I couldn’t install mine.

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            Like the hose went all the way up into the tank, instead of simply screwing onto the bottom.

            That’s EXACTLY what my situation is like

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              It sounds like you’d have to replace the whole stack, but that’s only about $15-20 at Home Depot.

              There should be some sort of threaded seal around the hole on the bottom of the tank where the water flows in, and the hardware all attaches to that.

              I’ve never seen anything like your situation, you might need a plumber to sort that out.