TOILET SEAT BIDET AND HIDDEN DANGER



Toilet Seat Bidet and Hidden Danger


Bidets are great accessories for the toilet not only do they have a positive effect on your health by preventing hemorrhoids they also help you save on toilet paper and reduce the amount of waste. But there is a hidden danger when it comes to bidet accessories. Most homeowners or business have toilet seat based on toilet seat mounted bidet units, and as you may know that unit is hooked to the toilets main water supply line. Now this happened to me sometime last week, I awoke to find water on the floor sipping to 1st floor from air vents and as you can imagine by the title the culprit was the bidet. 

So, what happened and what caused the flood? Well as with most toilet accessories that use water they are hooked to the toilets main supply line, unless you have a bidet with both hot and cold water options then the cold line is hooked to the toilet, usually with plastic adaptors and the hot line is hooked by a nearby fixture like a lavatory faucet, with at times a need to drill the vanity to run the hot line.

In my case, it was a simple cold-water bidet that was installed beneath the toilet seat and hooked up to the toilet’s water supply line. The line that supplied the water to the bidet was a small plastic hose, like the primer pipe or ice maker water line. And as you may have already guessed that pipe failed and ended up causing a miniature flood. It was good that this happened at night and everyone was home, if this happened during workday hours then the house would have most likely been destroyed by water, since in my case the water was leaking for about 2-3 minutes before it was noticed. But even so, you got to remember that water in the house is under massive pressure so it was leaking like crazy.

So, that is my little run in with the bidet’s. And I’m guessing that if your reading this you may also have an accessory bidet and are wondering if your bidet is safe. Well here are few pointers to watch for.

  1. Is your bidet using a plastic line? If yes is it white or yellowish? If it’s yellowish then that’s a giveaway that it needs to be replaced ASAP.
  2. Is your bidet using plastic to metal connectors? If yes, make sure to periodically check with your fingers around the connection to make sure there is no leaks. As plastic to metal doesn’t like to always work and tends to leak overtime.

That is, it. If you notice leaks coming from anywhere in your bidet then it’s time to change it, we also recommend changing the bidet if it’s anywhere from 8 to 10 years old and is using plastic water lines as plastic tends to degenerate over this timeframe and may fail leading to a flood like the one I had.



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