TOTO SW3036R#01 WASHLET K300 Electronic Bidet Toilet Seat, Cotton White

This toilet seat is great. When you sit down to do your -ahem- "buisiness", an air purifier starts, water begins to coat the bowl to keep it clean, and the seat is warm. When you are finished, it cleans you with a pleasant stream of warm water, and dries you with a pleasant, clean-smelling stream of warm air. When you stand, the air is power cleaned to prevent odors from escaping into the room (or your nose), and after a short delay, the wand that sprays water cleans itself. Everything is adjustable from the position of the water jet, to the intensity. It can pulsate, oscillate, and add air bubbles to the water to make it feel softer. The temperature of the seat, the water and the air dryer can also be adjusted and customized. Settings can all be saved for two separate users, and it never runs out of warm water unlike many other products of this type, which is not a fun thing to have happen. There is a button that moves the stream forward a few inches for feminine cleansing as well. The air coming out of the bowl smells a lot like the air after a thunderstorm, rather than less pleasant smells. There is a handy remote to control it all, with a wall mounting bracket. It feels really clean and refreshing when you are done, and you will probably not go through more than one roll of toilet paper in a month as it is now only used for a final pat dry. There are definitely a lot of positives to this product.When it arrived, it was well packaged, with three instruction books (three languages). The English instructions were not written by a native speaker, but are good nontheless. It is obviously a well made product.Now let's go through the negatives.Installation: Putting the bidet on your toilet is fairly straight forward. I won't go through the entire process, but there are a few things to consider. The first is that you need an electrical outlet near your toilet for the bidet to operate, something that is not very common in construction unless you specifically ask for it. If you do not have one, an electrician can usually install one for around one to two hundred dollars (your area may be slightly more or less). The outlet should have a breaker on it since it will probably be fairly near the water hose that fills the tank on your toilet. The bidet is not cheap, so make sure you factor this cost into the total cost of your project. If you are handy, you can install the outlet yourself for about fifty dollars, including parts, but rememberto get an outlet with a breaker on it.The bidet is secured to your toilet with brass fittlings in rubber sleeves that are inserted through the screw holes built into the porcelain for the lid and then tightened. This compresses the rubber sleeve, holding the unit firmly in place. The instructions indicate that you should lubricate the rubber sleeve with water to help it slip through. In my case, on one side it would not fit. I first tried lubricant, then using a Dremel to bore out the hole a bit and next thinned the rubber sleeve, and finally put a metal rod against the threaded brass piece on the top, screwed the bolt in on the bottom to pull it down and used a mallet to pound it through. It barely did the job, but I managed to get it in without cracking the porcelain.The rest of the installation was easy. The water line and cord are a bit long. I am sure the extra length is needed for some installs, but looks untidy on mine (see photo). I may have to cut and splice, but that is for another day.The product itself has a few areas that I feel could use some improvement, and there are some things that you should know about.The top lid is LONG. When it is raised the tip stands a full two feet off of the surface of the porcelain. This is something to consider if you are planning to use an over the toilet space saver shelf, as it might prevent the lid from fully opening. In my case it is not a problem as the lid is 9 1/2 inches from the wall and most of these shelves stand nine inches from the wall. With the moulding, it -just- fits. The plastic lid is also thin, and the instructions warn you not to lean back on it, I assume so that you don't break it. The whole thing can be easily removed for cleaning (with the exception of the mounting bracket that stays attached to your toilet), so perhaps if it does get broken, the lid can be replaced.Electricity and water use: The seat is heated all of the time unless you turn it off, the water is heated on demand, and the LED lights are always on. Used as intended, the bidet will be drawing power all of the time. All of the water used by the bidet is water that would not have otherwise been used, from the pre-mist on the bowl to cleaning the wand to cleaning you. You can turn some of these functions off, though and there are two eco modes. You can also set it to turn off for either six or nine hours a day but if you live in an area where it is already warm, power is pricey, or you worry about impact to the environment you might want to turn the seat heating functions off altogether. Honestly, I think most of this is offset by the reduced toilet paper usage.If you lose the remote, or it is damaged, there is no way to use the bidet as there are no controls on the bidet itself, and a replacement is around $200. Don't lose the remote, people! The mounting bracket has an insert that lets the remote be permanently mounted unless you use a screwdriver, in case you are worried someone will move or take it.Finally, there is a decent amount of maintenance for this product. Toto recommends that it be unplugged daily and cleaned with a wet cloth (not toilet paper), although I doubt anyone does this. If you use toilet bowl cleaner, wash it off within three minutes to prevent funes from causingany issues. If you are going to be gone for an extended period, or there is the possibility of a freeze, you should drain the water from the unit and unplug it.Once a month the following maintenance is recommended: There is a filter for the deodorizer (basically a plastic screen) that should be removed and cleaned with a toothbrush; the wand that sprays water should be wiped down (there is a whole procedure for this); The bidet should be removed and the gap should be cleaned; the lid should be removed and the gap there cleaned; and then every six months remove and clean the water filter. To be honest, I'm guessing not many people do many of the periodic maintenance tasks unless there is a problem or noticable dirt, but I could be wrong.Is it perfect? No. But it is damn good, and using the washlet not only makes you feel clean, but suddenly an unpleasant task is not quite so unpleasant. The clean air smell alone is worth the price of admission in my humble opinion, especially if you have a partner that wants to use the bathroom for any purpose after you do your business, or they use the bathroom before you. If you are asking yourself if you really need a bidet, imagine getting dog poo on your hand and then just wiping it with a paper towel and then going about your day. Would it be clean? No? You need water to get things clean, and this is an area that gets dirty every day. So do you need one? I think we can agree that you get cleaner, it actually feels nice to use and smells nicer with one than without one.

Its a bidet! :) It may seem strange to talk about this, but I'm actually going to try to describe what makes this so great.I can imagine how much money is wasted on toilet paper, or paper that can be put to better use this helps with that.I always thought about this, but never had tried it and I'm impressed. I use historically a lot of toilet paper. It's quite costly. This can pay itself off in about 3 years for most, or even less if you are like me. I was using a 3-4 roles a week easy, and here you don't really need to use hardly anyway. For me it's closer to 2.5 years I'll get a pay off. And this isn't even a cheap unit. i think it's worth it though because it has self cleaning features and a warm seat, and instant hot water. It has just the key settings you need.It's really comfortable, cleaner, and healthier, and frankly just faster and less hassle.For some people the positioning of the seat it a little different you are more forward and it's more sloped you get used to it after a couple of weeks. I wish the lid were made out of a heavier gauge of plastic; it's not a huge deal.Install was easy. I have a glacier bay toilet, and a toto toilet it works on both.I've had it a while now, i waited to write this review, because toilets aren't my wheelhouse and I wanted to cover it after i get some experience. It's quite solid. The only drawback with me is I've not tried many, but i was able to still endorse this because of the key features. Unlimited warm water, and the heated seat I would think would be rather nice for most, along with the cleaning capability.I can't think of anything that would give me hesitation on it. Even the cost. It's a classic people who buy things like this end up saving in the long run. Though he life of the toilet seat, we are talking about many thousands of dollars and easier on your plumbing. It's also easier on your skin and sensitive areas which from a health perspective is advantageous and cleaner. It's like buying a coffee maker, you buy a good one and they last 20-30 years like the mocha master or a cheap one and they die in 3-5. Sometimes you buy things because they pay off in time, and they have quality. It takes some discipline or a leap of faith that the thing will last. These have solid reliability ratings.I think you should give this a try. I love mine, if it's too much you could get the step down of course, if you don't care about these featuers. It's one of these things though that since it ultimately saves you some money, if you use it it's easier to justify some of the nice feature so you keep using it if that makes sense. That's show i looked at this.

We have used these seats for several years and love them.We just had one that needed repair after 8 years. I thought I would provide insights.The problem we had was a low level modulating hum for about 1/2 hour after we used the seat. The hum sounded like a small internal fan, but it could have been something else. I read the maintenance instruction (discussed below) and checked/fixed what I could - it did not fix the hum. I called Toto, they were very responsive. Basically for $175 they will fix it. The way it works - You call them, they send you a shipping box with prepaid label, you remove seat and send it back, they fix it, they notify you and you pay, they send seat back to you. Takes 2 weeks or so. Removing seat is easy. In our case we bought a new seat (same model) and easily replaced old seat. The old seat was put on our #2 toilet when we got it back. The repair note said they replaced the spray wand due to scale - repaired seat works like new.Maintenance Summary. ABSOLUTELY clean air filter screen every 2-4 weeks. Wipe wand clean every month or 2 (we never did this). Change odor filter every couple years if needed. Clean scale filter every few years (we never did this). Wipe down hidden areas as needed. The manual has the instructions for this. The unit is well designed for easy maintenance.