Toilet Repair in Utah

Weighted across 843,348 occupied homes. Separately, 49% of the state’s 896,334 housing units — a wider universe, because it includes vacant ones — were built before 1990, which is before the Energy Policy Act of 1992 set a 1.6 gallon flush maximum.

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, tables B25003 (tenure) and B25034 (year structure built), 2023 release. Flush volumes: US EPA WaterSense, tank-type toilet supporting statement.

A state average hides the thing that matters. Of the 47 towns we route in here, 1 are mostly pre-1990 housing and 29 are mostly post-1990 housing; on tenure, 22 are strongly owner-occupied and 4 are renter-heavy.

The two are close to independent of each other, so an old town is not reliably an owning town or a renting one. That is why every town page below carries its own pair of figures rather than inheriting these.

The fault list does not vary by state. A running tank is the flapper or the fill valve, and EPA publishes a ten-minute test that tells them apart. Water at the base is four different faults, one of which is condensation and not a leak at all. A fixture that rocks is the one that causes the seal failure you will meet later.

What varies by town is who fixes it. In a rented home the toilet is normally the landlord’s repair, and in the towns above that is a large share of households.

Checking a credential in Utah

Utah licenses are issued by the Utah Division of Professional Licensing, Department of Commerce, which publishes a public search you can use before work begins.

• Alpine 88% owner-occupied · 23% pre-1990
• American Fork 75% owner-occupied · 35% pre-1990
• Bingham Canyon 55% owner-occupied · 92% pre-1990
• Bountiful 72% owner-occupied · 74% pre-1990
• Centerville 86% owner-occupied · 55% pre-1990
• Clearfield 75% owner-occupied · 46% pre-1990
• Draper 72% owner-occupied · 9% pre-1990
• Eagle Mountain 85% owner-occupied · 1% pre-1990
• Eden 91% owner-occupied · 30% pre-1990
• Farmington 83% owner-occupied · 32% pre-1990
• Goshen 75% owner-occupied · 66% pre-1990
• Heber City 76% owner-occupied · 29% pre-1990
• Herriman 81% owner-occupied · 5% pre-1990
• Hooper 99% owner-occupied · 36% pre-1990
• Huntsville 91% owner-occupied · 62% pre-1990
• Kaysville 89% owner-occupied · 44% pre-1990
• Layton 72% owner-occupied · 45% pre-1990
• Lehi 77% owner-occupied · 13% pre-1990
• Lindon 78% owner-occupied · 24% pre-1990
• Magna 80% owner-occupied · 60% pre-1990
• Mapleton 87% owner-occupied · 27% pre-1990
• Midvale 45% owner-occupied · 56% pre-1990
• Midway 84% owner-occupied · 22% pre-1990
• Morgan 90% owner-occupied · 42% pre-1990
• North Salt Lake 68% owner-occupied · 28% pre-1990
• Ogden 72% owner-occupied · 58% pre-1990
• Orem 57% owner-occupied · 55% pre-1990
• Park City 79% owner-occupied · 35% pre-1990
• Payson 85% owner-occupied · 42% pre-1990
• Pleasant Grove 70% owner-occupied · 28% pre-1990
• Provo 40% owner-occupied · 61% pre-1990
• Riverton 86% owner-occupied · 24% pre-1990
• Roy 86% owner-occupied · 58% pre-1990
• Salem 93% owner-occupied · 24% pre-1990
• Salt Lake City 58% owner-occupied · 73% pre-1990
• Sandy 78% owner-occupied · 63% pre-1990
• Santaquin 87% owner-occupied · 20% pre-1990
• Saratoga Springs 84% owner-occupied · 1% pre-1990
• South Jordan 84% owner-occupied · 14% pre-1990
• Spanish Fork 79% owner-occupied · 33% pre-1990
• Springville 70% owner-occupied · 42% pre-1990
• Syracuse 92% owner-occupied · 14% pre-1990
• Vineyard 51% owner-occupied · 4% pre-1990
• West Jordan 78% owner-occupied · 37% pre-1990
• West Valley City 70% owner-occupied · 61% pre-1990
• Willard 86% owner-occupied · 50% pre-1990
• Woods Cross 86% owner-occupied · 51% pre-1990