Hello all,
Hoping my question isn't too complicated as I do not know all of the correct terminology im sure, but here it goes.

I recently moved into a prewar building in queens, which I believe has the "flushomatic" style toilet. It looks like this:


Coming out of the backside of the toilet is a solid steel pipe, which Im guessing houses all of the internals.

I purchased a bidet online, and it comes with a little metal tube which is supposed to connect to a T adapter to your water tank supply hose.

My question is on my toilet, I don't see a small hose that I can disconnect, just a giant steel tube. Is there any workaround to install this? If more pictures are needed I can try to take some later.

Thanks in advance.

not sure what you mean by purchased a "bidet" online. if you mean one of those toilet seat replacements that doubles as a bidet, you can connect to the water pipe under the sink. may need to extend the hose but that should be simple.

Yes its a simple adapter that sits under the toilet seat. I think you answered my next question which was going to be if it would be an issue attaching it to the sink line instead.

Looks like this unit


Except on my toilet I have nothing for that metal tube in the back to attach to.

post a picture of the water supplies under the sink. i or someone can give you a list of which fittings you will have to get to adapt to under sink water piping as opposed to under toilet water piping.
the tee you have will not work under the sink. depending on what's uner the sink it might be a little comlicated or alot complicated. don't worry. we'll get you there...
also, how does that stainless hose attach on the seat end..

Thank you very much. I will post a picture tonight of everything once I am home from work. One end of the steel pipe connect to the bidet spray under the seat, and the other end attaches via a T connector to the water supply line.



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return it if possible

not code compliant w/o an installed visible accessible vacuum breaker on its' water supply


yep, they did in fact sell you something which can NOT be used legally in most jurisdictions

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Every one that I have seen requires an electrical receptacle as well and it must be GFCI protected.

This is a non electric bidet. It just runs off the water from flushing the toilet. There are much more expensive models which require an outlet, but this is a just a cheap non electric one. I called the company and explained my issue and they will send me the parts needed to hook it up to the sink.

it will still NOT be code compliant

regardless of the junk they send you

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why do you assume it is junk?
if the spritzer in the seat is above the rim of the toilet bowl the device is code compliant.

Here are the photos.
First the toilet, second the inside of the cabinet right to the right of the toilet.

In the end, you'll have a cold water feed to a bidet. Maybe ok in summertime temps, but come winter, won't that be a little like "Who goosed the moose?"

I have no idea how the mechanism in this thing works but if it's designed to operate on a pressure drop when the toilet flushes, will you have to turn on the sink to make it work?