Toilet Repair in Bothell, WA

Only 39% of the housing in Bothell predates 1990, and tenure is mixed with 67% of households owning their home.

Short version

67% of occupied homes in Bothell are owner-occupied and 33% 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. Most of the housing there postdates 1990, so a 1.6 gallon fixture is the likely one, and age is rarely the explanation.

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 Bothell

About 33% of households in Bothell rent. For them the fixture is part of the property and the repair is the landlord’s; for the 67% who own, it is a straightforward decision about a part.

Occupied homes in Bothell	Share	Homes
Owner-occupied	67%	34,317
Rented	33%	16,568

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25003 (tenure), 2023 release. Universe: 50,885 occupied housing units.

What the age of Bothell’s housing suggests

Bothell is newer than most: just 39% of its 53,227 housing units predate 1990. The flush-volume question that dominates older towns mostly does not arise here.

What does arise is the opposite one. Early fixtures built to meet the new limit cut the water without redesigning the bowl, and some of them flush poorly by design.

Housing in Bothell	Share
Built before 1940	1%
Built 1940 to 1989	38%
Built 1990 onwards	61%

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25034 (year structure built), 2023 release. Universe: 53,227 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.

Two questions are worth asking whoever comes: which part they tested before reaching a conclusion, and whether anything under the fixture needs attention. The second one is what separates a repair that lasts from one that repeats.

Other Washington towns we route in

Amboy 86% owner-occupied · 49% built before 1990
Everett 55% owner-occupied · 60% built before 1990
Federal Way 57% owner-occupied · 66% built before 1990
University Place 61% owner-occupied · 64% built before 1990
Renton 62% owner-occupied · 54% built before 1990

Everywhere we route in Washington

Checking a plumber in Washington

Checking a credential in Washington

Washington licenses are issued by the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries, 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. Toilets are one subject; we serve Bothell on all the others too.

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