For years, researchers have tracked the source of hospital outbreaks back to superbug-splashing sinks. For instance, researchers found that an outbreak in a Canadian hospital that spanned the years ...

Have your holiday guests left you with a clogged bathroom sink? Follow these instructions for clearing out the P-trap under your sink. Every plumbing fixture in your home should have a P-trap. Some ...

P-trap pipes are available in different materials, but the assemblies are similar. Your P-trap can be polypropylene (white or black), ABS (black), PVC (white) or 18-gauge brass (chrome-plated or ...

You just drilled a three pointer like Kobe. Unfortunately, the hoop was the sink drain and the ball was your wedding ring/contact/paper boat (dear lord, don’t go down after that thing!). All is not ...

The first time you empty the P-trap on your bathroom sink, you’re likely to gag. A few times more, and you get tougher. It’s a lot like getting used to changing baby diapers. The P-trap is that curved ...

Handwashing may be responsible for bacteria that live and grow in domestic sinks, researchers say. In what they say is the largest study of sink bacteria conducted outside of hospitals, scientists at ...

Handwashing is shaping communities of bacteria that live and grow in the plumbing of domestic sinks, scientists have found. In the largest study of sink bacteria conducted outside of hospitals, ...