Professional plumber Adam (@ap.plumbing) had a quick tip for those having trouble with their toilet running too long, and shared it with his TikTok followers. "Do you need to hold down the handle to ...

It's been said that closing the toilet lid before flushing can prevent the spread of all germs, by keeping any flush-produced mist in the bowl. But a new study refutes that, showing that tiny viral ...

My family always keeps the toilet lids closed whenever they're not in use for two main reasons: so that our dogs don't drink toilet water, and so nothing gets sprayed throughout the bathroom when we ...

Consider the 140,000 times you're likely to flush a toilet over a lifetime, and it's easy to see why toilets guzzle nearly 30 ...

A study found that the floor and walls around the toilet could still get contaminated with viruses from the toilet bowl even when the lid is down during flushing. (Photo: Getty) Will shutting the ...

A couple allegedly attempted to flush their newborn child down the toilet with a plunger, then buried her in a beer box after ...

Keeping the toilet seat lid down before flushing doesn't entirely prevent germ spread, as tiny airborne particles still ...

This summer, in Boulder, Colorado, John Crimaldi and his team of civil and environmental engineers gathered around a toilet — for science. They positioned a laser to beam green light above the lidless ...