These Toilet Seats Upgrade That Could Change Your Life

Few household implements have changed less in the last century than the reliable old toilet. Specifics may have improved, but the basic principles of a tank, toilet seat, flush, follow up with dry paper have remained largely intact.

And of all components, the humble toilet seat has changed the least, even in an era of advanced toilets. You might have a choice between circular or elongated, padded or solid, but it’s still a fixture to keep your buns away from the ickiness while you do your business.

And yet, you may find toilet seats soon have less in common with outhouses and more in common with a smartphone or wearable tech. Heated toilet seats, bidet toilet seats, electric toilet seats and, yes, even smart toilet seats have arrived and changed EVERYTHING.

Learn about three toilet seats that could change your life!

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Heated Toilet Seats

This is pretty much exactly what it says on the label. Heated toilet seats take away that cold shock to your bottom when you head to the bathroom in the middle of the night and the bathroom isn’t quite as warm as the rest of the house. The most basic models warm at just one setting, but the more expensive ones can be fine-tuned to your preference.

As an added bonus, they provide a warm glow to act as a night light or just add a cool sci-fi effect to your bathroom. Nothing improves that midnight runs more than feeling like your darkened bathroom is a spaceship!

Although heated toilet seats install with ease and you can do it yourself in minutes, you need a power outlet near the toilet to provide electricity.

Bidet Toilet Seats

Simply, a bidet is a bathroom fixture used for cleaning yourself with water after a trip to the toilet, often taking the place of toilet paper.

People have been using bidets for a long time. Up until very recently, a bidet was a separate porcelain unit in the bathroom, often mistaken for a very short sink or even a second toilet.

Bidets have historically been a plumbing fixture completely separate to a toilet. A classic bidet is a miniature, bathtub-like unit with taps on one end. The user straddles themselves over it and a stream of water is used to perform a similar function to toilet paper.

Smart Toilet Seats

The most advanced form of electric toilet seats is where this stuff gets REAL. A smart toilet seat combines several functions into one unit, packed with as much tech as your phone and probably costing as much, if not more. Smart toilet seats start at a few hundred bucks and the price can go to infinity and beyond for the really advanced stuff.

But is a smart electric toilet seat worth it?

The concept of smart toilets originated in Japan and they have been widely used in society for around 20 years. Historically referred to as a washlet, basic smart toilet models are a combination of a ‘Western’ style toilet and a bidet. They have simple controls for adjusting water and air pressure.

This smart toilet seat attaches on top of the toilet, replacing the existing toilet seat. A simple DIY connection below the toilet’s fill valve delivers clean water to the bidet seat. These seats also include advanced features like memory settings, internal water heaters, heated seats, and warm air dryers.