What's wrong with bidets?

Bidets? This post has amazed me. I'm not aware of anyone I know having a bidet. We don't even have a shower in our avocado bathroom.

I just love my bidet..it has all kinds of uses!!
I have a whirlpool bath too which my son wanted when he lived at home and a walk-in multi jet power shower/ massager in the downstairs shower room. They all get used daily after rugby, horse riding, gardening etc. One of the reasons I don't want to downsize. ?

I have never seen the benefits of having a bidet, even all of you singing their praises hasen't swayed me.

I have a wet room (already here when I moved in) which I love, I can't get in/out of a bath. I don't think I could get up off a bidet as I have to have a raised toilet seat (with handles) to enable me to get up off the toilet. For me a shower is enough to keep me clean

Now forgive me if I have not followed the pro and anti argument over bidets regarding personal hygiene.
What's wrong is the image bidets present of dated "one upmanship" in the domestic stakes
Think
Abigail's Party
Avocado suites
Jacuzzi baths
Shag pile carpets
Gold plated taps
Pampas grass
Hostess trolleys
Ford Cortinas
Cabochon jewellery parties

And you can see why bidets dropped out of modern bathroom fashions, now all wet rooms, raindance showers, LED concealed lighting and tiles everywhere. ? ?

I'd always wanted a bidet and when we had our ensuite modernised recently I stuck to my guns this time and had one installed, and it is BLISS. I love knowing that my underneath is clean and fresh every day even if I don't shower - I don't seem to sweat much anywhere else (use wetwipes under my arms) and only wash my hair a couple of times a week. It literally is just for my use (husband was vaguely perplexed but happy if it made me happy) and I feel so confident and clean and fresh every day, I'm so glad I insisted

I have ordinary showers that you can direct the water to where it is needed , as said already , bidets with no seat and too low are not great for anyone with sore knees and dicky hips

I'm confused. If you use a bidet for washing underneath, then why would you soak your feet in it? You wouldn't soak your feet in a toilet, would you. I have L.S. and dermatitis down there so I would love a bidet (but I wouldn't use it for soaking feet!)

MTD if you have a bath you soak both feet an bum in the same water. With a bidet you can put in the plug and fill to soak your feet, or you can use the squirter to wash your bits, or use the plug and give your piles a soak...you could use the same water for all three I suppose, but most people would empty and refill.

Grandmama no one outside the family would have known we had a bidet. It was in our ensuite bathroom where guests almost never ventured and the topic never came up in conversation.

Excuse my ignorance (I don't live in the UK) but what is a wetroom? From what I see on photos for retirement homes, it looks as though the space where the bathtub had been has been converted to a shower at one end - with no rim to trip over - and the rest is just a space to dance around in while the shower heats up. What's the big deal? Why remove a bath tub for that?

We lived in a rented house in the UK once where there was a bidet. Only used it for washing muddy shoes and soaking feet. Now have a shower, which can be used for a quick wash "down under". When I visited my cousins in Brazil, they had a sort of a long tube attachment to their toilets, which they apparently use for that purpose.

A wetroom is very useful if you have any mobility problems and as well as the absence of a step or sill to step over with a shower cubicle, gives you more space e.g.if you need to sit on a shower chair or stool.
A walk in shower with fixed screen or spacious shower cubicle, like a quarter circle one in a corner is the next best thing but a bathtub with shower over would have been next to useless to us for at least the last 10 years.
They have much to recommend them, but dancing around has never featured on my list of advantages

giulia the pleasure of a large shower area is that you can soap up away from water and step under to rinse. Baths are not "green" and I'm coming round to thinking "°Why would you run such a large amount of water and lie in there with feet, bum, bits, etcetera when you could have a lovely refreshing, hygienic shower?" With a wet room you don't have to compromise by having a cramped shower space or one over the bath. It also does away with always mouldy shower trays. An all-round win.

If we moved house and there was no room for a bidet in the bathroom I would install an all-singing, all-dancing Japanese bog.
They are the mutt's nuts -- and you can even get ones with coloured lights (??) that play music as well as various bidet-type functions, rinse, spray, squirt etc. They cost ££££ but are truly fabulous.
On holiday in Japan I kept taking photos of them, I was so impressed.

Mawbroon and Grannyyknot - thanks for explaining wetrooms to me. We live and learn, don't we!

Grannyknot - first I would wash my feet and nether regions in my bidet and then have a glorious soak in my bath (topping up the hot water as it cools down), with a good paperback novel. There was a time when I would perch a cool glass of lager on one rim and a bowl of crisps next to it. Oh, and music on in the background. I'm a disgrace, I know.

giulia that sounds like a different era

- LOL at this post! I never really thought about it but bidets haven't taken off in UK like abroad have they?

Many years ago on a first visit to France I didn't even know what it was for ! When it was explained, I thought WOW what a great idea! Except I could never get it right and ended up with scalding hot wotsits or literally freezing my A** off!!

We later bought a house that DID have a bidet but I fear it was rarely used for the intended purpose (accumulated other items). I never felt I wasn't 'clean' though.

Got me thinking IF, I would make more use of one now .

Love bidets, nothing better than feeling fresh as a daisy! Never thought about the other uses. Would love to have one put in. I've seen plastic bowls advertised in certain ladies mags that proclaim loudly "turn your toilet into a bidet". Still just a plastic bowl. Have also tried one of those toilets that "wash and dry", but think I prefer the bidet. At least you can be sure of the water being nice and warm . I can tell you, the squirt of cold water on a freezing day didn"t half make my eyes water ?

When I wanted a bidet some years ago our plumber friend said 'You haven't got enough space. You'll have to do a handstand under the shower.' Bit too old for that now!!

We had a very large long bathroom when moving in nearly 20 years ago. This has been split into two, one is a shower room with shower, loo and basin and the other a bathroom with bath (shower over), basin, loo and bidet. The bidet is used daily and we wouldn't be without it. The bath has to be dusted as nobody every uses it! While talking bathrooms, does anyone else get cross with fixed shower heads in hotel bathrooms? As a woman, unless you do a handstand in the bath whilst showering, it is exceeding difficult to wash the bits I want to wash most! Wonder if these were invented by a man?

Yes - I found that in America, hotel shower heads were fixed. Most annoying because I was pretty ill whilst there and needed to sluice down the bath couple of times (sorry if TMI).

In Germany, I don't think I've come across a shower that didn't have a hand-held shower head - sometimes doubling up as the actual shower by clipping into a bracket high up.

Yes, they did become rather 'Abigail's Party'

However, we did find ours useful years ago (for washing feet amongst other uses) and changed our coloured one for a white one a long while ago. However, the white one is now languishing, unconnected to a water supply or drain, in the attic after we refitted the bathroom.

It's there, along with other rubbish useful objects just in case.

You could sel it to Giulia- every one happy ;)

I grew up with bathrooms with bidets never used it and never missed it.

For the 'what's wrong with them' bit - well one of my 6th formers on a ski trip to Italy found that out 'Mrs C - this toilet is rubbish, he doesn't flush' ...

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