Toilet Repair in Montclair, NJ

The housing in Montclair is mostly old — 89% of it predates 1990 — and tenure is genuinely mixed at 60% owner-occupied.

Short version

60% of occupied homes in Montclair are owner-occupied and 40% 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 89% 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 Montclair

With 60% owning and 40% renting, Montclair is close to evenly split. Work out which you are before anything else — it is the one fact that changes every other answer on this page.

Occupied homes in Montclair	Share	Homes
Owner-occupied	60%	9,170
Rented	40%	6,076

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25003 (tenure), 2023 release. Universe: 15,246 occupied housing units.

What the age of Montclair’s housing suggests

With 89% of homes built before 1990, Montclair sits firmly on the old side of the flush-volume line. EPA describes pre-standard toilets as using 3.5 to more than 5.0 gallons per flush, and older ones as much as 6.

The house is what this dates. If you want to know about the fixture itself, the date is usually molded inside the tank lid.

Housing in Montclair	Share
Built before 1940	59%
Built 1940 to 1989	30%
Built 1990 onwards	11%

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25034 (year structure built), 2023 release. Universe: 16,181 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

Work from the symptom rather than the fixture. Continuous running has a ten-minute test that settles it; water at the base is identified by when it appears rather than where; and a handle that does nothing is visible the moment the tank lid is off.

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 New Jersey towns we route in

Summit 69% owner-occupied · 91% built before 1990
Teaneck 77% owner-occupied · 93% built before 1990
Little Falls 66% owner-occupied · 83% built before 1990
Mickleton 100% owner-occupied · 41% built before 1990
Norwood 80% owner-occupied · 64% built before 1990

Everywhere we route in New Jersey

Checking a plumber in New Jersey

Checking a credential in New Jersey

New Jersey licenses are issued by the New Jersey State Board of Examiners of Master Plumbers, Division of Consumer Affairs, 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 Montclair is taken on this number.

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