TOTO® WASHLET® S7 Electronic Bidet Toilet Seat with EWATER+®...

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"First, I want to say upfront that this is a good product -- well-made (I've only had it for a few weeks, so we'll see how it lasts), works well, incredibly easy to install (and I'm pretty incompetent with tools). I'm glad I bought it. Below I'll detail reservations, but I wanted to make that clear at the outset.So, 4 stars? I deducted 1 star for 3 reasons:•The two-sided remote is absurdly complicated, unintuitive, and the many buttons all have minuscule and unintelligible icons (about the size of an Altoid or smaller) with no text.•The manuals are nearly useless. It is a mystery to me why foreign companies with large sales in the US can't spend a few hundred bucks one time for an American freelance writer/editor.•They don't have instructional videos, or at least not for this model that I could find, though the fact that they refer to the models by their lengthy strings of numbers and letters (SW4726AT40#01 - seriously?) rather than by their simple model names (Washlet S7) makes it hard to find anything on their website.After trying to read the manual, which made the installation seem needlessly complicated, I found a video on YouTube (NOT made by Toto) that explained it simply and clearly, and only then did I realize that even I could do this with no problem. It ended up taking about 10 minutes to install.I also learned a few things about bidets in general in this process which I thought I'd pass along to other first-time buyers.•The dryer is nice enough I suppose, but if you've ever tried to dry your hair with a blow-dryer on the lowest setting you will realize that there's no way this thing is going to completely dry you in less than 20 min. or so. You will still need to follow up with paper.•One of the arguments made for bidets is this one - "If you accidentally got some excrement in your hair, you wouldn't use a tissue to clean it up." True enough. But you also wouldn't just use a water spritzer bottle - you'd wash your hair. A bidet will get you pretty clean, but when you are using some paper to dry yourself you'll discover that you'll still need to finish up with some more paper.So the idea that a bidet will eliminate the need for toilet paper is naive. It will certainly reduce the need, but not eliminate it.Now that I know all that, I'm still glad I bought it. But let's not exaggerate its capabilities."