I got the smaller bolts to try again installing my bidet attachment, so once more, with feeling! Jazz hands!
IT FITS! Hooray! Okay, now I can install it. I left the bolts from last time loose (so my toilet seat has been sliding around all week, lol), so I wouldn't have to deal with the bolts that no wrench fits problem again, either. They just came off with my hands.
After making sure it actually fit this time, I turned off the water and flushed the toilet so it would be empty and not leak all over the place when I unhooked the hose from the toilet. It did still drip a little bit, but I just put the holder for the plunger underneath to catch it and it wasn't much, less than a quarter cup of water dripped out.
Then I installed the t-adapter onto the toilet, and re-attached the input hose to that. Then I took the second hose that came with the bidet and attached it from the t-adapter to the bidet control, underneath. Made sure the sprayer didn't actually touch the toilet when you change the angle (this one has a further back and further forward setting), turned back on the water, and tightened everything one more time. All done! Hooray!
So the bidet I chose is cold water only, as I said has a front and back option, as well as a self-clean option where it rinses itself off. If you turn the bamboo knob one way, it self cleans. The other way is to clean yourself. A friend asked me if you have to plug it in to electricity and you don't; I think maybe ones that heat the water might need that but mine doesn't.
And now I feel very fancy, lol. Any kind of bidet is very rare in the US; most of our toilets are very old fashioned (I have a new low-flow toilet now too since switching apartments because they updated them to save water when they remodeled) and you definitely only see a stand-alone bidet in maybe a super rich person's house or a five star hotel (I've never seen one in real life, lol). Americans use a lot of wet wipes, yes like for babies, because there is usually no sprayer or anything near the toilet. It ends up being a lot of plastic use (the wipes are made with plastic) and clog up the sewers because some of them claim they are flushable (they aren't, no matter what the package says). I know some parts of the world have sprayers like we might have at the kitchen sink to serve as the cleaner here, but I really couldn't imagine using one on a sitting toilet without making a mess - I mean I could see it at a squat toilet, but I think I would just get water everywhere trying to do it on a sit toilet, LMAO. Perhaps it's just a matter of being used to it, because I'm sure some people have them at sit toilets too.
This investment cost me around $45 on Amazon (it's Puro brand, if you're wondering), and I think it's going to make me feel a lot cleaner in general! Also people use less toilet paper with these too, so that's another thing that hopefully I'll be spending less on now and I'll end up saving money between not needing wipes and less toilet paper from now on! Also, ya know, if there's another mad rush on toilet paper like there was at the beginning of the pandemic because panicking people are weird, I'm a lot better off not needing so much.
