One, two, three… SURPRISE!
Aw, a bidet! This is even better than a stripper jumping out of a cake. Thanks, guys! I can’t wait to turn all four water fixtures on and get really, really clean in all sorts of ways I’ve never been clean before.
Found by: Karen. Happy Not For Sale Wednesday!
Loveliest comment, by Veronica: Bad design! Turn it around so you can brush your teeth at the same time. C’mon people…think!
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How does the drain plumbing for that work? Does the sink just have an open drain pipe that dumps into the bidet when the bidet is stowed? How does a flexible drainpipe arrangement even work so that the bidet can roll out?
Bad design! Turn it around so you can brush your teeth at the same time. C’mon people…think!
I’ve actually got a bidet in my place now. I have never used it, but my cat loves to curl up in it. I’ve been tempted to turn on the water when she’s there to start the bathing process, but I don’t have a death wish.
Oooh! Do that! Film it while you do it, or maybe if you don’t have enough arms have someone else film it while you turn on the water!
I have a cat who likes to sleep in the sink. He doesn’t even get all that annoyed when I turn on the water, just rearranges himself so it’s not dripping on him and he can drink from the fawcet.
I have a friend whose cat turned on the faucet in the bathroom sink while she was at work. The water flowed so hard that it flooded and did over $30,000 in damage to the first floor of her house!
Ouch! Wow, that hurts!
A dog would never do that.
Our cat did that too, turned on the tub but we caught it just before it overflowed! We had to change the faucet style to one that wasn’t as cat friendly!
I just can’t get past the image of that wadded up cloth diaper on the countertop in the first picture.
Dang, that really could work – I’m figuring some of those braided-metal-jacket water supply hoses, maybe a side-shot sink trap like they use for those wheelchair accessible sinks, and another flexible pipe under the roller-platform to the drain. Awesome!
Custom job in a plumber’s home, perhaps? There might be some code issues about distance from wall, etc. – but that’s a great limited-space solution for a conventional bidet.
(Which have always been a darned sight cleaner and less disturbing than toilet-based fountains IMHO – I don’t care how many bells and whistles the Japanese have come up with, there’s just something disturbing about the idea of eliminating and washing in the same “bowl.”)
And we don’t even know what’s hiding inside the drawer…
The BlogHer ad on this page has a suitable water sound effect for this post… between the SFX and these images, I now must excuse myself to the ladies’ room…
When I was in college, I took a trip to Europe with a group. At one of the hotels, there was a roll-out bidet…in the closet. It had, as Anodean suggested, a braided-metal-jacket hose for the water supply. I don’t recall a drain hose, though… (???)
Anyway, the connecting hose(s?) was(were?) rather long, so it was possible to roll it around the room. As several of us had adjacent rooms, I suggested disconnecting the hoses and having bidet races in the hallway.
Those other kids were SUCH party-poopers. And the hotel manager was so snippy about replacing the water-soaked bedclothes.
Then it *can* be done – Yes! Thank you so much for that. I’ve wanted one of these for yonks, but we’ve just never had any bathroom with enough space to install one. (Forget living anywhere classy enough to have had one as original equipment.)
Hope springs eternal in the human breast…
Happy Bidet to you, too!
i SO want a Murphy-Bidet.
Anyone see the recent bidet sketch on Saturday Night Live?
Will there be a gap, between the hotel and the hospital, bidet-wise? Genius!
I have so many questions about bidets…. like, do they negate the need for toilet paper? Is there a special “wipe-off” towel for after? Is it monogrammed or something so you don’t confuse the bidet towel with the hand towel? Does one duck walk from toilet to bidet with ones pants around ones ankles, or pull them up part way… or is it easier to remove them completely to avoid wrinkling and slight spillage?
Thank you for asking the question that I’ve always had about bidets! We ‘mericans don’t GENERALLY have a lot of experience with them.
And… why does one NEED the bidet when the handheld shower thing is right there? So many bidet questions….
Such good questions and I have no answers.
Every house here in Portugal have a bidet. But is in a place of the toillet that everybody can reach, not as this one wich is something that i cannot understand and i had to look twice to believe. The bidet is fixed to the floor i think, but cannot help from immagining the small doors opening with a electronic futuristic sound and it coming slowly out from there….
I’m not even convinced it IS a bidet! Don’t bidets usually have the faucet higher so a stream of water comes across the basin, or a spout of some kind? This almost looks like maybe it’s a sink for a little person or a urinal that you can clean out with the attached faucet. (In my mind, it’s totally a little person sink.)
Also, yes, I did see the bidet sketch with Zack Milikinakis(?) “and on the way to the hospital, what kind of bidet will the ambulance have?”
That’s what I’m thinking: This is a faucet for kids. A bit of wasted money unless you run a daycare, which they may…
Surprise! Ha ha, you didn’t think I’d be hiding here, did you? You figured ‘he’s a bidet, he’ll need to place himself somewhere logical’ but bam! there I am, jumping out from underneath the sink! Bidet rules at hide and seek!
Really: How the hell do you use that particular model? I once lived in an apartment that had one just like that, and nobody could figure how to use it. There’s no hose, and there’s not enough room under the spout to sit your backside underneath it. (Are you supposed to use your hand? Ewww!) It was just a confusing waste of space (although one roommate used it as a foot bath, and another guy used it to soak his laundry).
If you absolutely insist on “refreshing” yourself after taking care of business, you can keep some flushable wipes next to the toilet, or the cheap-as-free solution would be to dampen a few squares of paper under the faucet, which is far less likely to splatter raw sewage all over your clothes.
Yep, I found this lurking in the cupboard during my long and stressful search for an apartment in Paris – there were bidets lurking in many unexpected places! (INSIDE the shower at one unforgettable flat!) Yes, there was a regular toilet too, but in a separate room down the hall. So yes, in this instance you would have to use the toilet, do the duckwalk with pants down to the bidet, then ‘freshen up’ – with some difficulty, I would think! As I said to the real-estate agent, shaking my head with incredulity, “oooh, la, la! Encroyable…”
“A dog would never do that.”
My dog did. She played in the bathtub while we were at work one day, knocked the drain cover down in the closed position, and proceeded to turn on the water by chewing on the (thankfully cold water) knob. Flooded the bathroom. We still didn’t figure out at what point she tried to open the door, thus locking it with the little knob lock thingy. That was a fun evening!
And now, to the bidet. WTF? is it even anywhere near the toilet? Can you imagine dripping substances all over the floor getting to it? EWWWW!
I still think that it was place their strategically for a mixed family of average people and midgets.
You can pee and wash your hands….at the same time!
You can brush your teeth…..then spit out the tooth paste!
You can wash your hands while someone else does too!
Made for midgets!
Made for dogs who are too good for the toilet!
Cats too!
FAIL.