As fast as you can say home upgrade, you can make your home look more finished and be more sanitary! It involves one simple step... drum role ...AND the BIG REVEAL
..... Close your toilet lids!!!
I’m always shocked by the amount of people who will leave their toilet covers open. It’s even more disturbing that also in real estate and rental promotional photos, nobody bothers to close the toilet.
As a kid my Mom taught me to always close the lid of the toilet. For her it was mainly an aesthetic concern. “It just looks ugly” she would said. And I agree.
For those of you who aren’t as concerned about appearance in your bathroom. Let’s talk about potential contamination caused by what is referred to as toilet ‘plume’ or spray. Think about what you are flushing. Not surprisingly, toilet water sprays when you flush it. With an open toilet, water is free to spray around your bathroom. This water contains germs.
Which looks better to you?
Some experts say that toilet plume can reach a vertical height of 2.7 feet, and around six feet away horizontally after a toilet is flushed, .
Don’t believe me? Check out some studies that have been done, like this one. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4692156/
Even if there is no conclusive evidence that the germs spread through toilet plume can be life threatening, why NOT close the lid? Err on the side of safety. And it looks much nicer too!