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Toilet Repair in San Anselmo, CA

San Anselmo is a town of older homes, 92% of them built before 1990, where a little over a third of households are renting.

Short version

70% of occupied homes in San Anselmo are owner-occupied and 30% are rented, which is close enough to even that the first question is which you are. A landlord is generally responsible for a fixture in a tenancy; an owner is not. Housing there is 92% pre-1990, which dates the house rather than the fixture.

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 San Anselmo

San Anselmo has 6,192 occupied homes, 70% of them owner-occupied. Which side of that you are on changes not just who pays but how quickly anything happens, which is why the tenant page is about reporting rather than repairing.

Occupied homes in San Anselmo	Share	Homes
Owner-occupied	70%	4,362
Rented	30%	1,830

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25003 (tenure), 2023 release. Universe: 6,192 occupied housing units.

What the age of San Anselmo’s housing suggests

Housing in San Anselmo is mostly older than the standard: 92% of it went up before 1990. A toilet fitted when those homes were built used at least twice what a current one does.

Whether the original is still there is a different question, and the only way to settle it is to look at the fixture.

Housing in San Anselmo	Share
Built before 1940	26%
Built 1940 to 1989	65%
Built 1990 onwards	8%

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25034 (year structure built), 2023 release. Universe: 6,641 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

Which of these is it? Running continuously, not flushing at all, flushing weakly, leaking at the floor, or moving when you sit on it. Each has a different cause and only one of them is urgent.

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

Sunset Beach 41% owner-occupied · 84% built before 1990
Los Angeles 27% owner-occupied · 82% built before 1990
Mira Loma 63% owner-occupied · 48% built before 1990
Wildomar 76% owner-occupied · 42% built before 1990
San Juan Capistrano 79% owner-occupied · 71% 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 San Anselmo on all the others too.

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