Bidets sold for the UK market all seem to have the taps on the wall side of the unit which is not as i remember them being in the past. My memory is that the french ones have the taps at the front edge with the little 'jet' squirting towards the back and you sat facing into the room.
Which way are you supposed to sit on a UK bidet? Do you have to face the wall or do you face the room and have to reach behind you to operatet the taps? Neither seems convenient.
confused, Cambridge (Robert)
The wikipedia entry has operating instructions.
Washing your bum and bits more than once a day seems very inconvienient anyway, unless you are saving the planet by not using toilet paper.
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Come to think of it, do you change the position you're facing depending on whether your washing your back or front bottom?
Pete
On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 07:08:47 -0800 (PST) someone who may be RobertL wrote this:-
Depends on what one is washing and the design of bidet. What one might call traditional UK water engineers were very concerned about the things. The less useful ones that are like low level basins didn't concern them too much, but the ones with submerged water outlets caused much sucking of teeth and talk of contamination of water supplies. If installing the latter, make sure it is connected properly, as there is a risk of contamination otherwise.
And if you are connecting the bidet directly to a cold mains supply, please make sure it has a regulated gate restriction in the supply pipe, not just a stopcock. Mains water pressure in most parts of the UK at such close quarters of a bidet, can remove a layer of skin before one gets the chance to stand up.
You could just have a shower and save the floor space and the cleaning, of course...
Stick yer arse over the edge of the bath, with the shower head in one hand. It worked for me for many years. :-)
Could it remove any other parts ? :-(
I know an old golfer who used a new bidet connected to the mains water supply. He did get a hole in one, and a big bruise on the other one.
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We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember RobertL saying something like:
Sit? I wash my feet in it.
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com saying something like:
Could save the NHS a bleeding fortune, if it did.
What's the point of a bidet with separate hot and cold over-the-side taps? I've seen one in a rented house and don't really understand. It's just like a low level basin with separate taps - there's no spray or jet, and the taps are directed downwards.
The only purpose I can think of is for washing feet or babies, but can't see how it fulfills its bidet function without a lot of splashing...
Theo
I didn't think anyone actually used one. Aren't they just for show - to impress the neighbours?
We have a Great Dane X Greyhound who really like to drink out of the sink with the taps running. He can still only reach over the top with a foot stool so perhaps its a fancy dog bowl.
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On 10 Nov 2008 17:15:25 +0000 (GMT) someone who may be Theo Markettos wrote this:-
As far as I can see, the only point is to avoid frightening what one might call traditional UK water engineers.
For what it's worth I heard a science programme talking about C Difficile. It seems that most people who get it have taken it in on their crutches (the nether region ones, not leg props). I would like to see whether the rate for this is lower in regions where people wash after a crap, such as Islamic countries and continental countries like France, where bidets are common. Many English people seem to have constipation judging by the shelves of potions in the shops. Perhaps paper is more effective then, but I still think a bidet is a good idea, especially if you eat a decent diet. BTW in France teenage girls used to call it their 'Father Confessor'!
Peter Scott
AFAIK there are two distinctly different flavours of bidet; one has a spray thingy in the base which directs a jet of water to your bits, the water then runs down the drain (ie no plug); the other is designed to be filled with water like a handbasin where upon you either dangle your bits in or splash water over them depending on personal geometry etc. Analagous to taking a shower or a bath, respectively.
Hope that clears things up...
David
For a start you have to remember that many cultures regard the habit of using dry toilet paper to clean up post-poo debris as being utterly disgusting; in many parts of the world it's regarded as essential to get water involved and do the job properly, as it were. I believe it's also a Muslim thing (left hand for bottom washing, right hand for eating?)?
Personally I happily use TP, but it's not difficult to imagine the alternative point of view of someone brought up in a culture of cleaning up using water who would find that custom utterly disgusting.
I'm also reliably informed that bidets are also a girl thing, especially at that time of the month or following a roll in the hay - ie quicker than a shower, and in the absence of a detachable shower handset, it's easier to get the water jet where you want it by using a bidet than by doing headstands in the shower cubicle.
David
Thanks. I'm glad to be, um, enlightened.
Theo
Hence cack-handed.
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