Brondell
Brondell Swash CL1700
Brondell's Costco-exclusive luxury seat — you won't find it anywhere but Costco stores and Costco.com, currently $249.99 after an instant discount off the $399.99 regular price. It's essentially a cost-reduced Swash 1400: same instant ceramic heating with endless warm water (hot in about 10 seconds), programmable remote with two user presets and a dock, warm-air dryer, carbon deodorizer, and night light — but a single stainless nozzle instead of the 1400's dual wands, and a 1-year warranty instead of three.
Specifications
Features
Pros
- ✓The cheapest endless-warm-water seat in America when discounted: $249.99 gets instant ceramic heating that the $299-street LE99 (hybrid, finite) and $349 Toto S2 can't match on duration
- ✓Warm water arrives in about 10 seconds and never runs out — the defining upgrade over every tank seat at this price
- ✓Programmable remote with two per-user presets plus a wall dock — preset recall is a $479 Swash 1400 feature elsewhere
- ✓Automatic carbon deodorizer engages the moment you sit; the entire sub-$300 LE line omits deodorizers entirely
- ✓Costco's famously liberal return policy functions as an informal extended warranty that outclasses the paper 1-year coverage
- ✓Nearly 4,000 Costco reviews give it a real-world track record most 'exclusive channel' products lack
- ✓Slickdeals regularly catches it at $229 during member events — the price floor for a remote tankless seat, period
- ✓Stainless self-cleaning nozzle, blue night light, and sub-30-minute install round out a spec sheet with no obvious holes
Cons
- ✗Costco-exclusive: no membership, no seat — and warranty service routes through Brondell while returns route through Costco, which confuses owners
- ✗Single 2-in-1 nozzle where the Swash 1400 runs separate rear and front stainless wands — the biggest hardware cut from the flagship
- ✗No silver-nanoparticle nozzle sterilization like the 1400; self-cleaning here is a plain water rinse
- ✗1-year warranty versus the 1400's 3-year tiered coverage — Brondell knows which seat is the flagship
- ✗The 4.1-star average (vs 4.4 for the 1400) is dragged down by recurring remote-reliability and dead-unit complaints in Costco reviews
- ✗The warm-air dryer is widely panned as weaker than most — 'weaker than most' is a direct quote from the review consensus
- ✗3.9-foot power cord is stingy; measure to your GFCI outlet before buying, extension cords on bidets are against code in most jurisdictions
- ✗Regular price is $399.99 — at full freight the calculus changes and a discounted Swash 1400 or Bio Bidet BB-1000 becomes the better buy
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