In the hunt for the best-ever cleaning hacks, many are choosing to put fabric softeners in the tanks behind their toilets.

A slow-filling toilet tank can be a major headache. Fortunately, there's a fix that's quick, efficient, and doesn't require you to call a plumber.

It looks thoroughly disgusting. The “it” is an ugly mass of stranded, fiber-like material that slowly, over the years, completely plugged an eight-inch diameter valve at Hutchinson’s ...