It's your doody as an American!!
What every type of bidet actually costs, and how to put one on your existing toilet in about 20 minutes without calling anybody.
DON'T BE FOOLED! YOUR TUSH ISN'T CLEAN!
THE REVOLUTION HAS BEGUN — INSTALL A BIDET IN YOUR HOME TODAY!
Americans are complete and total nasties. Bring pride to this nation. Install a bidet.
A clean bottom is NOT exclusively for the billionaires. We deserve a CLEAN WORKING CLASS!!
Bidets are way cheaper than you think, and you can install one yourself onto the toilet you already own. It is a CHOICE to have doo-doo on your flesh.
Five real options, cheapest first. The highlighted row is the one most people should start with.
| Typical price | Type | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| $15 – $25 | Portable bottle | A squeeze bottle with a nozzle. You fill it yourself. Works anywhere — hotels, campsites, a bathroom with no water line nearby. Not a replacement for a fixed unit, but a genuinely useful travel item. See portable bidets → |
| $25 – $40 | Handheld sprayer | A metal spray head on a flexible hose, mounted to the wall beside the toilet. You aim it yourself, which takes a few days to get used to. The most pressure for the money, and the easiest to clean. See handheld sprayers → |
| $25 – $60 | Attachment | A thin bar that slides under your existing toilet seat and runs on your home's water pressure. Nothing plugs in, nothing gets cut, and it comes off again if you hate it. This is the one most people should start with. Start here See attachments → |
| $60 – $170 | Non-electric seat | Replaces your whole toilet seat rather than sitting under it. Cold water only, but better build quality, a cleaner fit and a soft-close lid. Still no outlet required. See non-electric seats → |
| $200 – $700 | Electric seat | Heated seat, warm water, warm-air dryer, remote control. Needs a grounded outlet within reach of the toilet. If your bathroom doesn't have one, budget another $100–$350 to add it before you order. See electric seats → |
| $120 – $200 / yr | Toilet paper | No thanks! I'll just use this paper to wipe my big gross man butt, forever, every year, at full price. I choose poo butt → |
For an attachment or a non-electric seat — the two cheapest fixed options. No plumber, no electrician, about 20 minutes with basic hand tools.
Is there a grounded electrical outlet within about three feet of your toilet? If not, every electric seat on the market is off the table until you pay an electrician, which usually costs more than the seat you were looking at. And is your toilet bowl round or elongated? Measure from the centre of the seat bolt holes to the front rim of the bowl: about 16.5 inches is a round bowl, about 18.5 inches is elongated. Attachments generally fit both. Replacement seats do not, and buying the wrong one means a return.
An attachment is a slim bar that goes between your existing seat and the bowl. It is cheap, reversible, and it lifts the seat by roughly half an inch, which some people notice and most do not. A bidet seat replaces the toilet seat outright, so nothing is sandwiched, the profile is lower, and the plastic is usually better. If you are not sure a bidet is for you, buy the attachment. If you already know you want one permanently, skip straight to the seat and save yourself buying twice.
Pressure dial numbers are not comparable between brands and mean nothing on a spec sheet. Adjustable nozzle position is nice but rarely the difference between a good and bad unit. And unless you are buying an electric seat, water temperature control on a listing usually means the unit taps your bathroom sink's hot line, which requires running an extra hose across the floor — check the photos before assuming warm water comes free.
If cold water is genuinely the thing stopping you, a dual-temperature attachment costs around $50 to $80 and tees into the hot supply under a nearby sink as well as the toilet's cold line. It is a longer install, maybe 40 minutes, and it needs the sink to be close to the toilet. It is still far cheaper than an electric seat plus an outlet.
The obvious cheap middle ground — wipes instead of a bidet — is the one option that costs you money later. Consumer Reports put it bluntly: flushable wipes are “great for plumbers—because they keep their phones ringing.” Lisa Fogarty, “Are Flushable Wipes Really Flushable?”, Consumer Reports, March 11, 2025.
Liam Cope, founder of Engineer Fix, writes that studies have shown “many wipes labeled as flushable do not fully disintegrate” — even after long periods of soaking and agitation. They snag on pipe joints, gather grease, and become the clog you pay somebody to remove. Liam Cope, “Are There Any Flushable Wipes That Are Actually Flushable?”, Engineer Fix, December 22, 2025.
The water is cold and that is the whole adjustment. It is pipe-temperature, not refrigerated, and virtually everyone stops registering it within a few days. Start the pressure dial at its lowest setting and work up, because the top of the range on a mains-pressure unit is genuinely forceful. Keep a small towel or a few squares of paper for drying, since only an electric seat with a dryer removes that step. Paper consumption in most households drops by roughly half to three quarters, not to zero.
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A portable travel bottle runs about $15 to $25. A handheld sprayer is roughly $25 to $40. A non-electric attachment that slides under your existing seat is about $25 to $60, and a full non-electric replacement seat is about $60 to $170. Electric seats with heated water, a warm-air dryer and a remote run about $200 to $700, and need a grounded outlet near the toilet. Most people are well served by the $25 to $60 attachment.
Not for an attachment or a non-electric seat. Both tee off the existing toilet supply line using a T-valve that comes in the box, and the job takes about 20 minutes with a small adjustable wrench and a towel. No pipe is cut and no new line is run. You would only call a plumber for a standalone porcelain bidet fixture, which needs its own supply and drain, or an electrician if you want an electric seat and there is no grounded outlet within reach of the toilet.
Only the heated ones. Attachments, handheld sprayers and non-electric seats run entirely on your household water pressure and plug into nothing. Electric seats need a grounded outlet within reach of the toilet, because they heat the water and the seat and usually run a dryer fan. Many older bathrooms have no outlet near the toilet at all, so budget roughly $100 to $350 to have one added before you buy an electric seat.
An attachment is a thin plastic bar that sits between your existing toilet seat and the bowl rim. It is cheaper, it keeps the seat you already have, and it raises the seat slightly. A bidet seat replaces the toilet seat entirely, so nothing is sandwiched, the fit is cleaner, and you generally get better build quality and a soft-close lid. Non-electric seats still use cold water only. The attachment is the cheaper experiment; the seat is the nicer permanent answer.
Almost always, but check two things before ordering. First, bowl shape: toilets are either round or elongated, and a seat has to match, though most attachments fit both. Second, tank shape: on some one-piece and French-curve toilets the tank slopes down close to the seat bolts and leaves no room for the attachment bar, so look for a model listed as compatible with one-piece toilets. Measure from the seat bolt holes to the front rim, since 16.5 inches is round and 18.5 inches is elongated.
You need a little, or a reusable towel, for drying afterwards. What changes is the volume. Households commonly report cutting paper use by somewhere between half and three quarters once a bidet goes in, because paper stops doing the cleaning and only does the drying. Only electric seats with a warm-air dryer get you to genuinely zero paper, and even then most people keep a roll for guests.
On an attachment, a handheld sprayer or a non-electric seat, yes, because it comes straight off the cold supply to the toilet tank. It is room-temperature pipe water, not ice water, and most people stop noticing within a week. If cold water is a dealbreaker, there are two fixes: a dual-temperature attachment that also taps the hot line under a nearby sink, or an electric seat that heats the water on demand.
A typical household spends roughly $120 to $200 a year on toilet paper. A $35 attachment that cuts that spend by half pays for itself in well under a year, and the water it uses is a small fraction of what a single flush uses. An electric seat at $400 or more is a comfort purchase rather than a savings one, and takes years to break even. The cheap end of the ladder is where the math actually works.
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