When you think of places rife with germs, a gas station toilet might top the list. However, some of the items in your own bathroom could be even dirtier. It's easy to overlook these everyday items, ...

Dear James: Our house has several bathrooms with tile floors. One seems to have either a moldy or a sewer gas type of smell at times. What could cause this, and is it something that I can repair ...

Dear Tim: My husband installed a new gasket on the toilet in our master bathroom as part of adding a new ceramic tile floor. He’s pretty handy, but soon after I noticed a sewer gas odor in this room.

To help get rid of the temporary odors that come with toilet use, encourage everyone to turn on the bathroom vent fan, or ...

Two months ago I received a desperate text from a young woman who’s the cantor at my church. All of a sudden she was smelling noxious sewer gas in her condominium. She had moved in just two months ...

Luckily, it happened when no one was using the bathroom. When a bolt of lightning struck a homeowner’s septic tank Sunday morning in Port Charlotte, the electric blast ignited the methane gas inside.