With two bank holiday weekends in a row coming up, a lot of homeowners will probably be looking into doing some DIY and home improvements. A new survey has found that the average family spend £1,793 a year on improving their home. Many people do this in order to save money on costs, but this [...]
They say that Facebook and other social networks are addictive, with a quarter of a billion people logging into Facebook every single day, and that has been emphasised by a new survey which has revealed how we’re even logging on when we go to the loo. In a questionnaire which asked ‘Do you ever use [...]
A little bit of positive news for the bathroom industry even if the figures are generally negative! The decline in the UK bathroom market has actually decreased to just 2% for 2010, which notes a far slower regression rate compared to the severe drops in 2008 and 2009. According to the ‘UK Bathroom Equipment Market [...]
A new survey conducted Virginia Tech University, US, indicates that lead can leak through into brass plumbing pipes, even in new piping structures. The study, published in the November issue of the Journal of the American Water Works Association, is the result of collaborative research between the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and [...]
It’s official, winter is here. As the month of October greets us, so does the turning of our thermostats in a distinctly warmer direction. According to Confused.com, 17% of people first turn on their heating in September, while 27% say they will brave it out until November. The remainder will switch on in October, with [...]
A typical lift button carriers nearly 40 times as many germs as a public toilet seat, according to new research. A study carried out in hotels, restaurants, banks, offices and airports found 313 ‘colony-forming units’ of bacteria on every square centimetre of lift button which could lead to viruses and serious illness. The equivalent [...]
According to a survey from across the Atlantic, a surprising amount of homes would not pass health and safety standards due to the poor condition of their kitchen. The new study published in USA Today suggests that 1 in 7 houses would fall short when it comes to the rigid health standards. Now at our [...]
It’s been driving women crazy for years and it seems that men still aren’t getting the message, according to a new survey which outlines women’s views on their man’s most annoying habits. Predictably, men leaving the toilet seat up tops the list with over half the women quizzed (54%) saying their other half failing to put [...]
Here at TradePlumbing HQ, we’re quite partial to the odd survey here and there but this one left us feeling a bit icky. According to research by those eager beavers at Which? magazine, the average mobile phone these days carries 18 times more potentially harmful germs than a flush handle in a gent’s loo. Not [...]
With the exception of our family Cocker Spaniel, Sassie, everyone loves a bath. Yet think back to the last time you had one; the chances are it was over a week ago. If it was more recent, you represent a minority within the British public that still enjoys a good old-fashioned soak at least once [...]
