Bidets
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RoadJunkie
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We also use the RV Bidet. You will likely need to perform some PEX cutting, sizing and crimping. If you don't have the manifold distribution system, that isolates water supply to the heads, I would suggest putting in a shutoff valve while you're doing the install.
D-Dub
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Hey, RV industry, you need to recognize the rapidly-growing popularity of bidet seats. And their use in RV’s has the added benefit of reducing Black tank accumulation. Any bidet offers benefits, but warm water makes a world of difference, so why not install a GFI outlet near each toilet? Why not encourage companies like Dometic and Thetford to produce toilets compatible with bidet seats, by leaving enough clearance behind the seat bolts? And why not discuss 12v seats, while you’re at it? And install bidet-ready plumbing with a T in the toilet water supply? And for those customers who’ve never considered a bidet, I encourage you to consider it. My elderly mother wanted one in her home, so I installed it (including installing a 110v outlet). She, then, bought another and asked me to install it in our guest bathroom for her visits, which I did. Now, they are in installed through out the homes of our whole family—and our RV’s (not without installation challenges).
And allow me to really take a risk here (heck, a retired professional firefighter/EMT, I should be able to handle it); for the millions of people suffering with hemorrhoids, I have it on good authority that warm water bidets offer a dramatic improvement in your quality of life. There, I said it, so bring on the memes!
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And allow me to really take a risk here (heck, a retired professional firefighter/EMT, I should be able to handle it); for the millions of people suffering with hemorrhoids, I have it on good authority that warm water bidets offer a dramatic improvement in your quality of life. There, I said it, so bring on the memes!
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Don't think the RV world is ready for bidets. There is simply not enough demand. Sticks and bricks houses aren't roughed in for bidets.
Water sources in a stix and brix house are much easier to access than in an RV.
Installing a bidet in an RV is certainly doable. But I don't think the RV industry is ready for that challenge. They can barely handle what they're doing now. Adding a warm water line is pushing their limits.
For the DIY'er. Installing a cold water bid is easy enough but adding hot water or warm water becomes a greater challenge.
Water sources in a stix and brix house are much easier to access than in an RV.
Installing a bidet in an RV is certainly doable. But I don't think the RV industry is ready for that challenge. They can barely handle what they're doing now. Adding a warm water line is pushing their limits.
For the DIY'er. Installing a cold water bid is easy enough but adding hot water or warm water becomes a greater challenge.
RoadJunkie
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Try one without the warm water, I think you will find that you don't need it. By the time the warm water actually gets warm...it's all over.
D-Dub
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The electric bidet seats have a holding tank that constantly maintains a warm water supply. In addition, they typically allow you three temperature settings. The warm water is immediate, and the wives, daughters, and granddaughters outright refuse to use cold water, just say’n 
They also have temperature settings for the seat, adjustments for water pressure, nozzle position (the ladies also insist on models that have two separate nozzles; lets call them the black-water nozzle and gray-water nozzle). Some have a control panel mounted beside the seat, others have a remote, and some even have both. The installation requires three fundamentals, thus my appeal to the industry: 1. Installing a T in the cold water supply; 2. Installing a GFI protected outlet near the toilet; 3. A toilet design providing a few inches clearance behind the seat-mounting bolts. These new vacuum breaks housings are too close. For example, the Dometic 300 series had a raised porcelain lip in back, but it left enough room for a heated bidet, but the new 400 series do not; nor do the newer Thetford and Seaflow. Fortunately, there is a fairly easy DYI modification you can make with the new Dometic, since the vacuum break isn’t mounted behind a porcelain lip. Rather, the back of the seat is raised to protect it, so it can be moved. There’s an example and explanation here on the forum, but I’ll have to find it again for anyone interested.
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They also have temperature settings for the seat, adjustments for water pressure, nozzle position (the ladies also insist on models that have two separate nozzles; lets call them the black-water nozzle and gray-water nozzle). Some have a control panel mounted beside the seat, others have a remote, and some even have both. The installation requires three fundamentals, thus my appeal to the industry: 1. Installing a T in the cold water supply; 2. Installing a GFI protected outlet near the toilet; 3. A toilet design providing a few inches clearance behind the seat-mounting bolts. These new vacuum breaks housings are too close. For example, the Dometic 300 series had a raised porcelain lip in back, but it left enough room for a heated bidet, but the new 400 series do not; nor do the newer Thetford and Seaflow. Fortunately, there is a fairly easy DYI modification you can make with the new Dometic, since the vacuum break isn’t mounted behind a porcelain lip. Rather, the back of the seat is raised to protect it, so it can be moved. There’s an example and explanation here on the forum, but I’ll have to find it again for anyone interested.
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RoadJunkie
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The electric bidet seats have a holding tank that constantly maintains a warm water supply. In addition, they typically allow you three temperature settings. The warm water is immediate, and the wives, daughters, and granddaughters outright refuse to use cold water, just say’n
They also have temperature settings for the seat, adjustments for water pressure, nozzle position (the ladies also insist on models that have two separate nozzles; lets call them the black-water nozzle and gray-water nozzle). Some have a control panel mounted beside the seat, others have a remote, and some even have both. The installation requires three fundamentals, thus my appeal to the industry: 1. Installing a T in the cold water supply; 2. Installing a GFI protected outlet near the toilet; 3. A toilet design providing a few inches clearance behind the seat-mounting bolts. These new vacuum breaks housings are too close. For example, the Dometic 300 series had a raised porcelain lip in back, but it left enough room for a heated bidet, but the new 400 series do not; nor do the newer Thetford and Seaflow. Fortunately, there is a fairly easy DYI modification you can make with the new Dometic, since the vacuum break isn’t mounted behind a porcelain lip. Rather, the back of the seat is raised to protect it, so it can be moved. There’s an example and explanation here on the forum, but I’ll have to find it again for anyone interested.
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One can only dream about the comfort and pampering given with the new ultra bidet you have described. I guess I'm a meat and potatoes kind of guy.
I came across this advertisement. It seems someone else likes the idea of an RV bidet.
The whole idea of an RV bidet may have more merit than I gave it!
RV Bidet
I have this is both of our RV's and LOVE it!!!
Yep..100%