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Toilet Repair in Sims, NC

In Sims, 89% of households are owner-occupiers and just 36% of the housing was built before 1990 — so a pre-standard fixture is the exception here.

Short version

Owner-occupiers hold 89% of the occupied homes in Sims. For most households there the toilet is theirs outright, so the repair can be arranged directly without a landlord, an agent or a lease in the way. With most homes built since 1990, the fixture is probably already a 1.6 gallon one and its age is unlikely to be the fault.

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 Sims

Of Sims’s 1,617 occupied homes, 89% are lived in by their owners. There is no landlord in this arrangement, which means no waiting and also no one else paying.

Occupied homes in Sims	Share	Homes
Owner-occupied	89%	1,437
Rented	11%	180

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25003 (tenure), 2023 release. Universe: 1,617 occupied housing units.

What the age of Sims’s housing suggests

Only 36% of housing units in Sims were built before 1990, and 56% went up from 2000 onwards. Anything installed new in those homes was built to the 1.6 gallon standard or below it.

That makes an original pre-standard fixture unusual here — though the data dates the house, and a fixture can be older than the room it is in if it came out of somewhere else.

Housing in Sims	Share
Built before 1940	4%
Built 1940 to 1989	32%
Built 1990 onwards	64%

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25034 (year structure built), 2023 release. Universe: 1,722 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.

If you are quoted for a new fixture, ask what ruled out the parts. Flappers and fill valves are inexpensive and account for most of what goes wrong, so replacing the toilet without testing them has skipped a step.

Other North Carolina towns we route in

High Point 61% owner-occupied · 58% built before 1990
Granite Falls 77% owner-occupied · 53% built before 1990
Connelly Springs 77% owner-occupied · 59% built before 1990
Advance 89% owner-occupied · 46% built before 1990
Huntersville 72% owner-occupied · 15% built before 1990

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North Carolina licenses are issued by the North Carolina State Board of Examiners of Plumbing, Heating and Fire Sprinkler Contractors, which publishes a public search you can use before work begins.

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. Anything plumbing-related from Sims is taken on this number.

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