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I have them on all of my toilets. Guests LOVE them. Also, I have gotten special thanks from Islamic men who have to wash and often use cups and cloths in hotels and unfamiliar homes … the bidet is a draw for sure in unexpected ways !
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It’s not a group activity. jk
40+ years. Virtually every restroom features washlets/bidets.
My ‘washlet’ story… leading up to a flight out of Tokyo, I felt the need and visited the men’s room at the airport. As usual, super clean, well organized and Toto brand washlets. Far as these things go, it was a great experience.
Fast forward eight hours and I arrive at Honolulu and hit the restroom. What a filthy, poorly maintained dump that was.
The contrast cemented in my mind how Japan has it’s act together in so many areas compared to the good old USA.
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Toto Washlets are great for a personal house, but as a long time owner (15 years) and have serviced them and had them serviced by Toto, you will discover that whatever term you want to use ‘fecal matter’ inundates the interiors slowly over time through the tiny cracks where the units surfaces come together. (it is even spelled out as a line item on the servicing report if you send it to Toto for servicing, Toto has a great servicing system, a flat rate they send you a box you ship it back to them they do a complete overhaul and update of parts for a fixed price and ship it back to you)
Knowing about this I would not be excited to use one in a ‘public’ place such as an airbnb, but almost nobody knows about this issue. I will live with my own fecal matter but don’t want to use one of those filled with 400 other people’s. 
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The Japanese are so fanatical about cleanliness even showering before getting into a bath and giving their undercarriage a good scrub first that I trust them to sanitise a bidet 100% between guests. Other people not so much.
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In my biets, all I need to do is take them off the toilet and wash them. Th
A bidet is only a spray; the seat etc are what comes into contact with you, and I expect a host cleans that, along with the handle etc of the toilet. Again, a stream of water is inherently clean…
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I was just using my powerwasher today. It also is a spray. But the spray can kick back sand and dirt and there is a special little tool that came with it to ream out the tiny hole that the water comes out of. So I could see the same thing happening with a bidet spray and fecal matter.
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I have a Japanese toto washlet and most guests are clueless how to use these - so don’t. I now recommend they find a Youtube video to learn how to use these.
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I’m not really into bidet or automatic bum washers or whatever y’all are talking about. A friend of mine had a fancy toi-toi it sprayed you and dried you, I could see it was not clean.
In an airport somewhere, maybe Asia, I can’t remember the coolest thing I saw in a stall was automatic tubular seat cover that switched on when the door opened. Just shockingy smart<><>
Our female Asian guests sometimes flush while going to hide the noise. Huge waste of water!
This is how it is done in NYC.
FYI your friend’s lack of hygiene and cleanliness does not translate into bidets being inherently dirty.
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I also have a plan to buy a bidet. For hygiene purposes, the bidet is indispensable in your modern lifestyle. But I want to install it by myself to save money. So do you know how to install a bidet seat?
I’m quite sure that the bidet that you purchase will come with instructions.
And YouTube has literally hundreds of instructional videos based on installing bidets…a simple search on Google will show you many options and give you confidence that you can do it on your own.
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I know I said so above but this is a very funny conversation to someone who grew up with bidets - proper ones. (I just realised how silly ‘grew up with bidets’ sounds. As if they raised me.)
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a bidet in the US.
In one house I lived in (UK) there was a bidet in the bedroom. (Installed by the previous owner, I hasten to add).
Anyway, my favourite bidet story…
I was working at the UK equivalent of Home Depot as a kitchen designer, My boss, who was half my age and a twit, was telling me off about something and I was arguing back and he said “Look. I am the boss.”
We happened to be in the bathroom department at the time and a customer approached us. He looked at me and pointed to a bidet in a bathroom mock-up and said “What is that?” “A bidet,” I said.
I loved his next comment “What’s it for?”
I pointed to my boss. “Ask him, he’s the boss”. I left the red-faced guy having to explain the function of a bidet to a chap who didn’t have English as his first language. Love payback.
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Reader, it is fantastic! And I don’t allow anyone else to use it.
We bought a heated bidet toilet seat for my elderly parents (late 80s) for Christmas this year. My younger brother installed it in 10 minutes. He said it was super easy I’d you just take the time to read the instructions first.
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Thank you so much for this tip!! We have these in our house, not in our cottage. Given all the success reported I’m going to have to ponder adding Toto Washlet to the cottage.
LOL
Okay gross story coming so here’s the trigger warning: stop reading right here if you don’t like to read about poop!
I lived in Egypt many years ago, where every toilet had a little tube sticking out from the back of the bowl that you could use to shoot water at your bum.
A group of uni students rented and shared a large apartment. We didn’t call the toilet feature a “bidet,” we referred to it as the “butt water nozzle.”
One student was really keen on using the butt water nozzle. Nobody else used it because it was always full of poop. It drove that one student insane! We regularly got lectures on not pooping into the water spout. I don’t know how it could be avoided since it was perfectly positioned to catch, uh, stuff.
That poor woman kept cleaning it out, determined to use it to achieve superior rectal hygiene. I honestly do not understand how she thought she could achieve any semblance of hygiene with the poop-infused butt water nozzles. I think her idea of what her flatmates should have done was run the water after each toilet use so as to spray out any contaminants. But where was that contaminated water going to spray? Either on people’s, er, undercarriage, or on the inside of the toilet seat lid.
All of that is to say that I love the idea of a bidet in principle. In practice, though, I have some concerns. 
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That’s a great story.
The ones that plug in have nozzles that retract until the bidet is used. Before the bidet I had small spray nozzle that mounted on the side of the tank. It wasn’t heated or motorized or elegant but it was great value for money. It was my economical way to test how much I would use a bidet. It was a success so I got a bidet seat for my bathroom.
At my price point and with my business model it’s not something I’d get for the airbnb room due to my concerns about cleaning it between guests.
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Nice! Curious, where are most of your guests coming in from who appreciate the bidet? My listings are in Florida, U.S. but we are getting a fair number of international travelers.
My guests are people who drive or fly in for work in my local area, which has a lot of financial businesses I do from time to time get international travelers, but since we have a maximum of five days, stay and only maximum of two people in a room, we do not get families. My ideal guest is a business person who leaves at 6:45 in the morning to catch a train, comes back at nine at night after going to the gym and eating dinner and, this describes the majority of my guests.