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Toilet Repair in Daly City, CA

In Daly City, 87% of the housing was built before 1990. About 60% of households own their home and 40% rent, so this page has two readers.

Short version

In Daly City the split runs 60% owner-occupied against 40% rented. That makes responsibility a matter of your own address rather than the town's pattern, and it is worth settling before anybody is called out to the property. Housing there is 87% pre-1990, so a pre-standard fixture using far more than 1.6 gallons a flush is a real possibility — though that dates the house, not the toilet.

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, tables B25003 and B25034.

Tank and Bowl is a referral service, not a contractor. We connect homeowners with independent contractors. Contractors are required to hold whatever credential their state or municipality demands. Every state page sets out who licenses plumbers there and where to check, so you can confirm before work begins. We carry out no work, we sell no fixtures, we do not set prices, and we never charge homeowners anything — the contractors in our network pay us when we route them a call.

Who this page is for in Daly City

Tenure in Daly City is genuinely mixed — 40% of its 34,621 households rent. That matters more than it sounds: it decides whether the next step is calling a contractor or writing to a landlord.

Occupied homes in Daly City	Share	Homes
Owner-occupied	60%	20,776
Rented	40%	13,845

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25003 (tenure), 2023 release. Universe: 34,621 occupied housing units.

What the age of Daly City’s housing suggests

Daly City is old housing by this measure — 87% of its 37,957 housing units predate 1990, and 7% were built before 1940. Anything installed new in those homes was a pre-standard fixture at 3.5 gallons or more, against 1.6 today.

Plenty of them have been changed since, and this data cannot tell you whether yours has. It tells you what the odds are for the street rather than the room.

Housing in Daly City	Share
Built before 1940	7%
Built 1940 to 1989	80%
Built 1990 onwards	13%

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25034 (year structure built), 2023 release. Universe: 37,957 housing units, including vacant ones — a different universe from the tenure table above. Flush volumes: US EPA WaterSense, tank-type toilet supporting statement

What is actually wrong with it

Four complaints cover nearly all of it, and they are different faults rather than degrees of one. Running is the flapper or the fill valve. Nothing at all is usually the chain or a blockage. Water on the floor is four possibilities, one of which is not a leak. A weak flush is the water level, the chain, or the specification.

Ask what happens to the floor. A leak at the base has usually been going for a while by the time it is visible, and whether the subfloor and flange are sound is the difference between a seal replacement and a return visit.

Other California towns we route in

Brea 60% owner-occupied · 71% built before 1990
Rio Dell 60% owner-occupied · 73% built before 1990
Redondo Beach 58% owner-occupied · 79% built before 1990
Shafter 63% owner-occupied · 47% built before 1990
Orange 58% owner-occupied · 79% built before 1990

Everywhere we route in California

Checking a plumber in California

Checking a credential in California

California licenses are issued by the Contractors State License Board, which publishes a public search you can use before work begins. California licenses the C-36 plumbing contractor; there is no state journeyman license.

If the dye test pointed at the flapper, that is a part, not a fixture.Worth saying on the call, because it changes what somebody arrives with. We connect you to a contractor covering your area and you are never charged. Toilets are one subject; we serve Daly City on all the others too.

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