Toilet installation, repair, and replacement

Signs your toilet needs repair or replacement

Most toilet trouble is a cheap part doing an expensive amount of damage. Catch it early and it stays cheap. If the problem is a blockage rather than the toilet itself, start with a clogged toilet, and wipes are the usual reason.

• A tank that runs or ghost-flushes
• A weak flush, or having to flush twice
• Water seeping out around the base
• A toilet that rocks when you sit down
• A cracked tank or bowl
• A toilet that clogs most weeks

Commercial toilet repair, replacement, and installation

Restrooms in a restaurant, a motel, a church or a shop are different fixtures on a different schedule. We work them around your doors staying open. More on commercial plumbing.

Flushometer valves and urinals

Sloan and similar flush valve toilets and urinals: diaphragms, handles, rebuild kits, and full replacements. The parts that fail most often are the ones we carry.

Bulk toilet replacement for lodging and rentals

Motels, rental houses, and churches get their toilets swapped in a batch, planned between guests or around a service, rather than one room at a time.

ADA height and code upgrades

Raising fixtures to ADA height and the code work that comes with a commercial restroom, documented so your next inspection is straightforward.

When to repair a toilet and when to replace it

Four answers, and which one you get depends on what has actually failed rather than how old the toilet is. The longer version is in repair or replace a toilet.

Repair when it is a part inside the tank

A fill valve, a flapper or a flush valve is a $175 to $350 repair and it is most of what we get called to. See toilet repair.

Replace when the porcelain is cracked

A hairline crack in a tank or bowl does not stay hairline, and there is no repair for porcelain that holds up. A standard replacement is $350 to $800 installed. See toilet installation and replacement.

A rocking toilet is neither, and it is the urgent one

That is the seal, the closet flange or the subfloor underneath. Almost every house out here sits over a crawlspace, so the water goes somewhere nobody looks until the floor gives. A flange adds $150 to $450. A section of subfloor costs considerably more than that.

Replacing anyway? Decide on height first

Comfort height is a couple of inches taller and easier on knees and backs, and the moment to fit one is while the old toilet is already coming out rather than as its own job in five years.

Repair or replace, pick the one you need

• Toilet repair: Running tanks, weak flushes, leaks
• Toilet installation: New toilets set, old one hauled away

Why the Shore calls us for toilet work

From large commercial projects to a dripping faucet, the work gets the same treatment: diagnosed correctly, repaired carefully, guaranteed in writing.

Stocked for the Shore

There is no supply house around the corner out here, so we carry more inventory in the shop and on the trucks than most companies our size carry anywhere.

Who actually shows up

A Shoresteady Plumbing technician who has been background checked and drug tested. We provide clear estimates before work begins.

No surprise on the invoice

You approve a written estimate before work begins. If the job needs something we did not see, we stop and talk to you first. Financing through Acorn Finance is available.

Guaranteed in writing

2-year workmanship

Our guarantee on the labor, on every job we do.

Manufacturer warranty

Passed through to you in full on everything we install.

100% satisfaction

If it is not right, we come back and make it right.

Questions We Get Asked About Toilets

The toilet questions that come up on nearly every call.

Choose the fixture you need

• Toilets: Repair, replacement, and installation
• Sinks: Kitchen, bathroom, and commercial sinks
• Bathtubs and showers: Walk-in showers and traditional tubs
• Faucets and fixtures: Faucets, shutoff valves, and hose bibs