03 Mar
Posted by webgerms as Best Bidet Seats of 2010, Bidet Toilet Seat Reviews
In the world of bidet toilet seats, it’s not often that we come across a seat that surprises us. Most seats available on the market today have roughly the same features, same overall design, and are relatively on par with each other in terms of quality. About once every year or so we come across a bidet seat that makes us take a step back and say, “Hey, I think we got ourselves a good one here!” Last year, it was the Clean Sense dib line with its affordable inline water heater. The year before that, it was the COCO 6035R that wowed us with its overall aesthetics and continuous heating system. This year? It’s the Blooming NB-R1060.
First, a little background information on Blooming Bidet. The Blooming line of bidet toilet seats is produced by NCM Corporation in South Korea. Blooming has been selling their electronic bidet seats successfully in Japan for years. NCM Corp. is South Korea’s largest exporter of toilet seat bidets and has been manufacturing well known brands like Sanyo for the last 20 years. The quality of Blooming bidet seats rivals that of much more expensive Japanese brands (*achem* TOTO*achem*), but without the hefty price tag.
The previous line of Blooming bidet toilet seats, including the NB-520, NB-560, NB-570, and NB-R770, were great quality seats with a host of functions, but had 1 major flaw. They were kind of bulky in the rear and only fit 2 piece toilets. If you have a 2 piece toilet, great! Otherwise, you were a little SOL. Enter, the new Blooming NB-R1060.
The NB-R1060 bidet seat is such a great value because it takes all of Blooming’s wonderful features and quality and stuffs them into a beautiful, sleek package. It rivals the COCO bidet toilet seats in terms of aesthetics and is on par with INAX, TOTO, and Japanese brands in terms of top-notch quality materials and construction. It features a very small footprint like the COCO 6035R and also has a rounded back which allows it to be installed on most 1 piece toilets – including some models with those pesky french curves.
As with all of Blooming’s toilet seat bidets, the NB-R1060 features their trademark Aluminum Coated Nozzles and Luminous LED Night Light.


If we haven’t already said that the Blooming NB-R1060 has great quality – it does. The seat and lid are the strongest that we’ve seen on the market next to INAX. They have a great, heavy feel to them and don’t bend when you apply lots of pressure. We tested it by closing the seat and lid and sitting on it. At 180lbs, I didn’t feel any “give” whatsoever.
Functionally, the Blooming NB-R1060 performs as well as any other bidet seat on the market. The wireless remote also has a nice heavy feel to it and is easy to use. The only feature that truly stands out is its warm air dryer. Compared to other seats on the market, the NB-R1060 has one of the strongest warm air dryers that we’ve experienced. This is especially useful for folks with limited mobility or anyone wishing to rid themselves of toilet paper completely. Keep in mind – it will still take up to 1-2 minutes to be fully dried.
Negatives – In testing, we found two drawbacks that may deter some folks from owning this bidet seat. First, is the absence of an enema wash function. The enema function is useful for folks suffering from constipation, but the NB-R1060 only has the rear wash and feminine bidet functions. The second drawback is the lack of an inline heater / continuous heating system. Although Blooming has suggested that it will be implementing an inline heater for this model in the future, the current NB-R1060 uses a “tank-type” heater. This means that if you wash with warm water, the stream will begin turning cooler after 25-30 seconds of wash. For the 90% of people who only wash for 20 seconds or less, this is a non-issue. For others, it’s a deal breaker. Personally, we here at iHeartBidets don’t mind it at all. It simply signals to us that we’re clean =).
We love the Blooming NB-R1060 bidet toilet seat and think you will too. Scroll down for some real-life pictures of the model we used to test. Enjoy, and don’t forget to visit BidetKing.com for the best bidet deals on the internet!
4 Responses
Gerald
March 3rd, 2010 at 5:50 pm
1Thanks, great information
Leather Wristbands :
October 30th, 2010 at 10:20 am
2stainless steel toilet seats are good too, we always use them on our newly built house instead of ceramic toilets ..
Ernest Chock
January 18th, 2011 at 5:07 pm
3The Blooming unit appears to be well constructed, except for one thing, it could have included an energy saving feature in the form of a remote controled main switch, so that for most of the time when it is not in use it does not have to be wasting energy heating it up. We noticed our electricity bill went up by $25 for the part of the month after it was installed. And we actually tuned it off part of the time with the wall switch. I do not know if frequent on/off switching would be bad for the electronics.
Any comment from Blooming?
webgerms
January 20th, 2011 at 12:46 pm
4Thank you for your comment on our blog, iHeartBidets.com.
Ernest,
Thank you for your comment on our blog, iHeartBidets.com.
In reply to your question, $25 a month to operate the seat sounds like an awful lot. We have done tests in the past when comparing bidet seat power usage over the course of a month and found that under normal usage, the seats only consume about 16 KWH per month without using the energy saving feature. This results in a roughly $2-$3 cost per month.
Try hooking up your bidet seat to a product like http://www.amazon.com/P3-International-P4400-Electricity-Monitor/dp/B00009MDBU to monitor the actual power consumption of the bidet seat and monitor it over the course of a month.
Also – the Blooming NB-R1060 does have a power saving feature that can be activated by pressing the “Power Saving” button located on the unit itself, not the remote. If you close the seat and lid, the button is located on top, near the back right.
Let me know if you have any additional questions or concerns we can help you with.
Thank you,
Michelle
Admin – iHeartBidets.com
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