Smart Toilet with Bidet Built In: $800 Verdict

January did it. Not the heating bill, not the cold kitchen tile — the toilet seat in the guest bathroom. It is the room nobody heats properly, the one over the garage, and at 6 a.m. on a January morning in Ohio that seat felt like it had been storing winter since November. I stood there in the cold, thinking about the same question every homeowner has at least once: is a smart toilet with bidet built in actually worth eight hundred dollars, or is it a gadget looking for a bathroom?

Six months ago I bought FLNORW MALL’s smart toilet with heated bidet seat — one piece, tankless, 1.28 GPF, auto open-and-close lid, warm-water bidet wash, warm-air dryer, wireless remote — for $800. It has been sat on, flushed, washed, and dried by my household since March. This is the honest verdict, with the install, the money math, and the parts the product page does not tell you.

Why I Bought a Smart Toilet with Bidet Built In

I was a skeptic, and I want that on the record. My first smart-toilet experience was a hotel in Chicago: a panel of icons and a spray that ambushed me mid-read. I checked out unconvinced. But two things wore me down. First, the guest bath’s cold seat, which annoyed me every single morning. Second, my father-in-law’s arthritis, which makes twisting for toilet paper genuinely painful for him — a fact nobody in my family talked about until my mother-in-law mentioned it quietly over Thanksgiving.

I did the usual research. HOROW’s T05 smart toilet with a built-in tank runs $949; TUSHY’s Eau smart toilet with integrated bidet is $1,599. FLNORW MALL’s unit at $800 undercut the HOROW by about $150 and cost roughly half the TUSHY, with the same headline features: heated seat, warm-water bidet wash, dryer, auto open and close. That price gap is what got me.

The Features I Actually Use: Heated Bidet Toilet Seat, Warm Water, Dryer

The heated bidet toilet seat is the feature everyone rolls their eyes at and then refuses to give up. It warms to a comfortable level in a couple of minutes — not hot, just neutral, like the seat was never cold to begin with. My mother-in-law now claims the guest bathroom as her territory when she visits, and I understand why.

The warm water bidet wash has adjustable temperature and pressure on the remote, and this is where the skepticism went to die. By week three I had found my pressure, and the toilet paper roll next to the toilet started lasting noticeably longer. The warm-air dryer is the surprise third act: it does not replace paper entirely in practice, but it cuts usage to a small pat-dry amount. Six months in, our household buys roughly a third of the toilet paper we used to.

First Week vs Six Months: the Warm-Water Wash Learning Curve

Be honest with yourself going in: the first week is calibration, not comfort. The remote has separate buttons for rear wash, front wash, water temperature, pressure, seat temperature, and dryer, and the manual reads like it was translated by someone in a hurry. Start on the lowest pressure. By day five I had dialed in a setting I still use today.

Two practical notes from the learning curve. First, the remote does not come with batteries — have two AAA batteries ready on install day. Second, guests and the auto open-and-close lid are a comedy routine the first time. The lid lifts as you approach, which delighted my kids and startled my brother-in-law. There is a setting to tone down the sensor sensitivity, and during a party I turn the auto-open off entirely.

Install Day: GFCI Outlet, 12-Inch Rough-In, and 79 Pounds of Ceramic

A tankless smart toilet is still a toilet, and it still bolts to a flange. This unit measures 26.38 inches long, 15.35 inches wide, and 18.11 inches tall, weighs 79.36 pounds in the box, and expects the standard 12-inch rough-in. My bathroom had the standard 12 inches, a GFCI outlet already installed near the toilet, and decent water pressure. If your bathroom checks those three boxes, this is a plumber-afternoon project, not a renovation.

Here is the install checklist before ordering:

Measure the rough-in. 12 inches is standard; 10- or 14-inch rough-ins mean this toilet will not sit right. Measure before you order, not after.
Check for a GFCI outlet within cord reach of the toilet. The bidet, seat heater, and dryer all need power. If there is no outlet nearby, budget an electrician visit — roughly $150 to $200 to add one — or a $15 outlet swap if the wiring is already there.
Confirm your water pressure. This unit is a tankless siphon-jet design rated for 0.15 to 0.75 MPa. City water is almost always fine; well systems with low pressure are the edge case to check.
Bring a second person. 79 pounds of one-piece ceramic is awkward, not just heavy. Two delivery people carried mine; my plumber set it.

My plumber’s visit ran about $200 for a straightforward swap: pull the old toilet, new wax ring, set the new unit, connect the supply line, test the flush. Tankless means the bowl fills and clears with direct water pressure, and it clears with an authority my old gravity tank never had.

The Money Math on a Smart Toilet with Bidet Built In

Eight hundred dollars is real money for a bathroom fixture, so I ran the numbers twice — once before buying, once with six months of receipts. The competitors first: HOROW T05 at $949, TUSHY Eau at $1,599. On features alone, the $800 FLNORW unit competes with both; you are saving roughly $150 to $800 on the sticker before the first flush.

Then the running costs. Toilet paper first: our two-person household used to go through a 24-pack (about $15) every six weeks, roughly $130 a year. We now buy about a third of that — around $85 a year saved, my estimate. Electricity second: the seat heater and on-demand water heating moved my electric bill by maybe $3 a month, my rough estimate.

Water third, and this is where the EPA’s numbers do the heavy lifting. The EPA’s WaterSense program puts toilets at roughly 30 percent of indoor residential water use, and pre-1994 toilets can flush up to 3.5 gallons. The 1992 Energy Policy Act capped new toilets at 1.6 gallons; WaterSense labels models at 1.28 gallons or less. Against our old 3.5-GPF toilet, that is about 2.2 gallons saved per flush — at ten flushes a day for two people, roughly 8,000 gallons a year, or something like $50 to $75 a year back in water and sewer charges, my estimate and highly dependent on your city’s rates.

Add it up my way: ~$85 in paper plus ~$60 in water, minus ~$36 in electricity, nets roughly $110 a year in my estimate. On that math the $800 toilet earns itself back in about seven years.

Honest Downsides of This Smart Bidet Toilet

No review is honest without the compromises, and this smart bidet toilet has real ones. First and biggest: the bidet functions need power. In a power outage, the seat, wash, and dryer are dead — it still flushes as a toilet, but the $800 magic is gone until the lights come back. The listing does not mention a battery backup for outages, and I would not assume one. If your neighborhood loses power often, weigh that.

Second, the outlet is non-negotiable. If your toilet sits on a wall with no outlet nearby and no easy wiring path, the electrician bill eats into the savings. Third, the remote runs on batteries that are not in the box — trivial, but it should be in the box. Fourth, it comes in white only; if your bathroom is all biscuit or black fixtures, plan accordingly.

Fifth, the 18.11-inch height: close to comfort-height territory, but shorter users and kids will notice it is a touch tall. Sixth, tankless siphon-jet flushing is powerful but pressure-dependent — the 0.15 MPa minimum is fine for municipal water, but if you are on a weak well, verify your pressure before ordering.

None of these would change my purchase. But the power-outage one is the bullet to read twice.

Care and Cleaning After Six Months

The nozzle self-cleans before and after each wash, retracting into the housing when idle — I have watched it happen and it is oddly reassuring. The one-piece ceramic body wipes down like a countertop, with no tank-to-bowl seam to trap dust. Six months in, the gloss-white finish shows no staining, and the soft-close seat hinges have not loosened.

My maintenance routine, learned rather than prescribed: a weekly wipe of the seat and lid with a damp cloth, a monthly check that the nozzle area rinses clean, and — this one matters if you have hard water like mine — a descaling rinse every few months with diluted white vinegar run through a wash cycle with nobody seated. The remote batteries have lasted the full six months so far. Total weekly effort is under five minutes.

The Verdict on This $800 Smart Toilet with Bidet Built In

Six months in, the scorecard is short. The heated bidet toilet seat ended the January cold-seat problem completely. The warm water bidet wash cut our toilet paper buying to about a third, saving roughly $85 a year by my estimate. The tankless 1.28 GPF siphon-jet flush saves on the order of 8,000 gallons a year against our old 3.5-GPF unit. The auto open-and-close lid still makes me smile every time I walk in, and my father-in-law’s bathroom trips got easier in a way no fixture should be embarrassed to claim. Total installed cost: $800 for the toilet, $200 for the plumber, two AAA batteries, one Saturday morning.

Would I buy this smart toilet with bidet built in again? Yes — before the first frost, not after. If your budget is tighter or the bidet features are not for you, my earlier write-up of the $300 one-piece toilet for small bathroom covers the excellent plain version. And if the whole bathroom is getting attention, my $468 shower door install guide is the other fixture story from this same remodel. The rest of the house is at FLNORW MALL.

Ready to retire the cold seat? The smart toilet with heated bidet seat — $800, in stock, white ceramic, tankless 1.28 GPF — is the one I bought and the one this review is built around.