About the desk

What the desk does

The desk publishes researched verdicts. Every model scored on this site is scored from evidence the desk can cite: manufacturer spec sheets, installation manuals, and warranty texts (Class A); certification listings from bodies such as IAPMO, UL, and ETL (Class B); and dated retailer prices, printed as ranges (Class C). The rubric — six criteria, fixed weights, published in advance — is at methodology, along with the worked arithmetic for a real scorecard. If a number on this site cannot be re-derived from that page and the cited documents, it should not be on this site.

What the desk does not do

• No hands-on testing is claimed. The desk does not operate a test laboratory and never writes “in our tests” or “we found” about work it did not do. Where a question can only be answered by living with a product — long-term durability, how a spray feels at 2 a.m. — the verdict says the evidence does not reach it, rather than borrowing the language of experience.
• No invented people. Verdicts are published under the desk's name, not under fabricated reviewer personas with stock-photo biographies and credentials the desk does not hold. The authority claimed here is procedural: a published rubric, cited evidence, and a corrections record.
• No sponsored rankings. Manufacturers do not see verdicts before publication, cannot pay for placement, and are not consulted on scores.
• No laundered marketing. Claims enter a verdict only when traced to a document. “Spa-like” is not evidence; a nozzle specification is.

How the desk is funded — the exact position

That sentence is the policy, printed here because this is the page that sets the site's funding language. The desk's links today are internal — to its own verdicts, guides, and comparisons — and earn nothing. Should that change, three commitments govern it: the disclosure appears above the first recommendation on any page carrying such links, not in a footer; a link's presence or absence never alters a score, which is fixed by the rubric before any commercial consideration; and this page is updated in the same revision that adds the links, with the change noted under the corrections policy below. A reader who finds a page in breach of this paragraph has found an error, and the desk wants it reported through the corrections route below.

Corrections policy

• Factual errors are corrected in place, with a note. The correction states what changed and when; the record matters more than the embarrassment.
• Scores are dated and revised openly. When a model is revised by its maker, discontinued, or re-priced materially, its verdict is re-checked and the scorecard updated with the change and its date recorded — never silently rewritten.
• Price checks are re-run and re-dated. Prices on this site are street ranges observed at US retailers, labelled with their check date (currently October 2026); a stale date is itself a defect readers are invited to flag.
• Evidence challenges are answered with evidence. A correction supported by a manufacturer document or certification listing outranks the desk's prior reading, and is adopted with the source acknowledged on the page.

How a verdict gets revised

Three triggers reopen a scorecard: new Class A or B evidence (a revised manual, a changed warranty, a new certification listing); a material price move that changes the total-cost criterion; and a substantiated reader correction. Reopening does not guarantee a changed score — it guarantees the arithmetic is re-run against the current evidence and the page re-dated. Verdicts for discontinued models remain published, marked as such, because a reader holding that model still needs its record.

Contact and corrections

Corrections, evidence, and challenges to a verdict are the correspondence this desk most values. They are received through the contact route published on the site's pages; a correction that cites a document will be checked against the document, not against the desk's pride. Product suggestions are read with the standing caveat that the desk scores what the evidence supports, in the order its rubric demands — and that no correspondence, commercial or otherwise, purchases a score.

Sources & standing documents

This page describes the desk's own practice; its authority is the desk itself, and its claims are checkable against the site it describes. The standing documents it summarises are the methodology and rubric, the evidence classes defined there, and the verdict pages where both are applied — beginning with best bidet seats and best bidet attachments. If any page on this site contradicts this one — on funding, on evidence, or on what a researched verdict claims to be — this page governs, and the contradicting page is in error.