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This is my first time purchasing a bidet. While there are a lot of bidets out there with various fancy features, e.g. heat/warm water, electronic controls, etc... and wondered if I would be missing out by not having those features, after purchasing and using the Brondell, I do not feel like I am missing out on anything. I also believe that keeping it simple means it will be less likely to break or fail. The bidet has one job to do and this unit does it well. It gets you cl... Read More

This is my first time purchasing a bidet. While there are a lot of bidets out there with various fancy features, e.g. heat/warm water, electronic controls, etc... and wondered if I would be missing out by not having those features, after purchasing and using the Brondell, I do not feel like I am missing out on anything. I also believe that keeping it simple means it will be less likely to break or fail. The bidet has one job to do and this unit does it well. It gets you clean and allows you to use less toilet paper. The interface is incredibly simple to use. Installation was a breeze and included everything you need. As for the lack of heat / warm water, this may vary from home to home, but I do not find the water cold at all. (I do keep a fairly fixed temperature on my thermostat, so I suspect my pipes do not get as cold as they otherwise could.) I will however add that my wife tried the feminine feature and found that the reach was not right for her. I can see how a woman might want one that offers more fine tuning. It is for this reason that I have given it 4 stars instead of 5. If you do not need the feminine feature, then this unit is a 5 out of 5. Aside from the feminine feature, if I could add just one thing to my wish list, it would be for a bidet seat made of ceramic/porcelain. I do not believe one exists on the market. That said, while I worried this seat would not be as comfortable or nice as the normal ceramic seat it replaces, I actually found this plastic seat to be more comfortable to sit on, such that I do not mind at all that it is plastic. The plastic does keep the cost down and means I would not worry much if it broke and needed replacing with a new unit. Read Less

Be aware that if your order the one that uses cold water only, you lose the 2nd dial, which is designed to let you change the temperature easily (and even while in use)... but losing that also means losing that dial for pressure control when using cold only. This is huge, bc of pressure changes if you flush during a longer stay. Best to buy the one with the option for both hot and cold water even if you only hook up the cold, bc turning down hot when you have no hot effective... Read More

Be aware that if your order the one that uses cold water only, you lose the 2nd dial, which is designed to let you change the temperature easily (and even while in use)... but losing that also means losing that dial for pressure control when using cold only. This is huge, bc of pressure changes if you flush during a longer stay. Best to buy the one with the option for both hot and cold water even if you only hook up the cold, bc turning down hot when you have no hot effectively turns down the pressure instead. Great benefit! Other than that, it works pretty well and was easy to hook up except... this T adapter didn't mesh well with the toilet tank (and this isn't my first bidet hookup... had been easy and flawless in the past, same brand & model except 1st was dual-temp)... until I tried switching out to a different type and size rubber washer to the tank. Presto, no more cross-threading and no more leaks. Do be aware that the hose to the bidet seat is only a 3/8" diameter, so if you switch to a different T adapter (which I did, to get another shutoff valve at that point), you will need an adapter. This is bc *shutoff* bidet T's (as apposed to simple T's) tend to have a larger hose interface (1/2") bc they are often used to fit diaper sprays instead of bidet seats (bigger hoses). Some shutoff bidet T's now come with a separate 1/2-to-3/8 adaptor that can be used or omitted as needed. These are a great idea and save a lot of disappointment. Wish more things were standardized in plumbing! P.s. If you find your hoses no longer come forward - grasp then with clean toilet paper with bidet on, once. Then check your pressure. We had to turn the pressure way down at the split valve (to avoid injury from the high pressure), which was then perfect ... IF you didn't flush first. Flushing reduces the pressure, so our turn-down became too far down if we flushed first. - too little pressure to activate the hoses to come out. So you have to choose between setting the overall toilet supply pressure to be either ideal for pre-flush, or ideal for post-miduse-"courtesy"-flush. I'm actually planning to try another, more expensive (and electricity-requiring) brand to see if others clean better. Our first Brondell had a very narrow stream, so didn't clean great without a tremendous amount of wiggling and associated water everywhere. This one has a slightly wider spray, but with the sensation water is streaming almost level, front to back (for both rear & female washes- never a good direction for females. Read Less

Can anyone explain to me why we Americans have not hopped on board the bidet train? They've been using bidets in Europe for decades...almost every bathroom I've ever visited during my many trips to Europe has had a bidet. Even the cheapest hotel room in a low-rent district, or the humblest little water closet in the back corner of an unassuming trattoria, has a bidet. Most of the private homes we've been in had them in every WC. And yet we never find them in the US, unless you are staying at the... Read More

Can anyone explain to me why we Americans have not hopped on board the bidet train? They've been using bidets in Europe for decades...almost every bathroom I've ever visited during my many trips to Europe has had a bidet. Even the cheapest hotel room in a low-rent district, or the humblest little water closet in the back corner of an unassuming trattoria, has a bidet. Most of the private homes we've been in had them in every WC. And yet we never find them in the US, unless you are staying at the Ritz or some chi-chi hotel populated by wealthy international clientele. We just bought this. Now this might seem like an extravagance, but we did so because we have learned that the plumbing system in our 50-year-old house is rather fragile, and we were searching for ways to reduce the strain on it, thereby ultimately saving money in future plumbing repairs. Without being indelicate, let me just explain that using one of these can mean far less usage of TP. Which is not only good for our ancient pipes, but also for saving trees. We got it today, and it's AWESOME! Easy installation. Heated seat (awfully welcome during these coldest days of the year), gentle stream of warm water, adjustable nozzle position for either...as they say euphemistically in the manual..."back" or "front" washing. And some other interesting features too, which I haven't yet explored, and might not. Here's the thing: Americans tend to be far more fastidious than other parts of the world, in terms of bathing frequency, general hygiene, germaphobia, etc. And yet we walk around with dirty bums, while our less-frequently-bathed European brethren walk around with nice clean ones! I don't get it. Join me! Buy one of these and let's start a bidet revolution! Clean bums everywhere!  Read Less