“Investigate immediately,” Mutz advises. “Perhaps a sink, tub, or toilet is overflowing, and you’re hearing water splashing ...

New research suggests a closed toilet seat may not be as helpful to block the spread of germs as we once thought.

"There isn't any danger of flushing the toilet while a passenger is sitting on it because it is tested that way," Daniel Bubb, an aviation historian and professor in residence at the University of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pressing the flush button on an airplane. Instead of water, airplane toilets use a vacuum mechanism to suck waste into a holding ...

Ghost flushing is that eerie hissing noise that occurs in the middle of the night when the toilet suddenly decides to refill itself. While there may be nothing paranormal about this phenomena, this ...

You walk into a calm home and suddenly hear a deafening bang from upstairs that almost floods the ceiling — you want to know what caused it and how to stop it from happening again. A failed fill valve ...

When left unaddressed, frozen pipes can quickly become serious (and costly) problems. To deal with them promptly, it's important to know what to look out for.

“We’re going through!” The Commander’s voice was like thin ice breaking. He wore his full-dress uniform, with the heavily braided white cap pulled down rakishly over one cold gray eye. “We can’t make ...

Horses can make a low and high frequency at the same time when they whinny. New research has found the high frequency is made by a whistle in the larynx. Scientists claim horses are the first large ...

A whistling noise after a turbo replacement on a Maserati could be due to an incorrect installation or a defective part. A 1951 MG TD that lost all braking power likely has a leak in its single master ...