Washlet installed in Pre-War Brooklyn apartment
I just finished installing my brand new washlet in my apartment here in Brooklyn. These things are pretty common in Japan but I’ve never seen one in the States. I ordered the cheapest one that TOTO makes, the C100.
The hardest part about the installation was removing the old seat with it’s rusty bolts and plastic nuts. After a run to the hardware store and some elbow grease that thing came off and I was ready to mount the shiny new washlet.
The C100 has a much better way of attaching to the toilet than than nuts and bolts. It has expanding rubber bushings that go down where the bolts would sit. Instead of using a nut to hold it in place the bushings expands when you tighten the screws. Once you get the template installed you just slide the seat on until it snaps.
After that you hook up the water supply, turn it on, and enjoy! It has adjustable water pressure, heated seats, and front and back cleaning. My bathroom is now Japanesed!
I swear this is for my girlfriend 
Good for you.
ToT O!
August 22nd, 2007 at 9:20 amO_o
When you have used it, do you feel “Clean” or do you feel “Diluted Dirty”, hmmm?.
I can not get my head around someone purposefully installing something like that. If “Dog” had meant us to wash our bums clean off poo, he wouldn’t have given us trees.
August 22nd, 2007 at 11:44 amOK… am I the *only* one who read Tigger’s entry as “… he wouldn’t have given us feces” instead of “trees”?
Was I? I thought not… .
You must give us an update in a couple of weeks re: how her friends and family deal with this new fangled thing and if it’ll be popular (poopular?) or people’ll just get flushed and fluttered by it.
Sorry. Scatalogical meanderings behind me now.
August 22nd, 2007 at 11:53 amNow that I re-read what I wrote, I am concerned that you don’t read it as me being critical of you personally Alex Kane. I certainly didn’t mean it to be a reflection on your character.
I just think it is such a crazy device.
I will not comment on it further though, because my fingers want to type further things possibly disobliging.
(The french developed this idea first, I rest my case.)
August 22nd, 2007 at 1:28 pmSorry to be too detailed here, Alex, but what is the mechanism for cleaning your backside off? Is it a little pipe or tube that sprays water at your bottom?
I ask b/c I worked at a hospital that had a cleaning system (for the bowl, not people) that dripped cleaner into the bowl everytime someone flushed. Let’s just say it frequently got “dirty” and it was beyond gross!
August 23rd, 2007 at 4:56 amThey don’t make them in pink? @_@
August 23rd, 2007 at 8:31 am