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 [...]

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 [...]