Toilet Repair in Loris, SC

Loris is a newer town, 40% of its housing built before 1990, where about 31% of households rent.

Short version

In Loris the split runs 69% owner-occupied against 31% 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. 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 Loris

Tenure in Loris is genuinely mixed — 31% of its 6,410 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 Loris	Share	Homes
Owner-occupied	69%	4,397
Rented	31%	2,013

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25003 (tenure), 2023 release. Universe: 6,410 occupied housing units.

What the age of Loris’s housing suggests

Only 40% of housing units in Loris were built before 1990, and 37% 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 Loris	Share
Built before 1940	3%
Built 1940 to 1989	37%
Built 1990 onwards	60%

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25034 (year structure built), 2023 release. Universe: 7,504 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 South Carolina towns we route in

Edgemoor 89% owner-occupied · 32% built before 1990
Pelzer 83% owner-occupied · 62% built before 1990
Beech Island 80% owner-occupied · 67% built before 1990
Pageland 65% owner-occupied · 54% built before 1990
North Augusta 76% owner-occupied · 57% built before 1990

Everywhere we route in South Carolina

Checking a plumber in South Carolina

Checking a credential in South Carolina

South Carolina licenses are issued by the South Carolina Residential Builders Commission, Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation, which publishes a public search you can use before work begins. South Carolina requires a residential plumber license for work over $500, according to the Commission.

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 Loris is taken on this number.

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