Toilet Repair in Colorado

Weighted across 1,902,196 occupied homes. Separately, 53% of the state’s 2,029,441 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 92 towns we route in here, 4 are mostly pre-1990 housing and 39 are mostly post-1990 housing; on tenure, 49 are strongly owner-occupied and 5 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 Colorado

Colorado licenses are issued by the Colorado State Plumbing Board, Division of Professions and Occupations, which publishes a public search you can use before work begins.

• Arvada 74% owner-occupied · 67% pre-1990
• Ault 77% owner-occupied · 55% pre-1990
• Aurora 67% owner-occupied · 57% pre-1990
• Avon 54% owner-occupied · 46% pre-1990
• Basalt 68% owner-occupied · 39% pre-1990
• Bellvue 87% owner-occupied · 64% pre-1990
• Bennett 88% owner-occupied · 51% pre-1990
• Berthoud 88% owner-occupied · 32% pre-1990
• Boulder 53% owner-occupied · 71% pre-1990
• Breckenridge 74% owner-occupied · 48% pre-1990
• Brighton 83% owner-occupied · 24% pre-1990
• Broomfield 63% owner-occupied · 38% pre-1990
• Byers 80% owner-occupied · 49% pre-1990
• Calhan 81% owner-occupied · 44% pre-1990
• Cascade 87% owner-occupied · 81% pre-1990
• Castle Rock 81% owner-occupied · 15% pre-1990
• Colorado Springs 65% owner-occupied · 56% pre-1990
• Commerce City 75% owner-occupied · 41% pre-1990
• Conifer 93% owner-occupied · 56% pre-1990
• Dacono 82% owner-occupied · 26% pre-1990
• Denver 52% owner-occupied · 65% pre-1990
• Dillon 59% owner-occupied · 59% pre-1990
• Drake 92% owner-occupied · 57% pre-1990
• Eagle 72% owner-occupied · 25% pre-1990
• Eaton 94% owner-occupied · 38% pre-1990
• Edwards 66% owner-occupied · 25% pre-1990
• Elbert 94% owner-occupied · 37% pre-1990
• Elizabeth 97% owner-occupied · 28% pre-1990
• Englewood 56% owner-occupied · 61% pre-1990
• Erie 89% owner-occupied · 9% pre-1990
• Estes Park 79% owner-occupied · 53% pre-1990
• Evans 69% owner-occupied · 33% pre-1990
• Evergreen 89% owner-occupied · 65% pre-1990
• Firestone 83% owner-occupied · 51% pre-1990
• Fort Collins 57% owner-occupied · 48% pre-1990
• Fort Lupton 71% owner-occupied · 59% pre-1990
• Fountain 73% owner-occupied · 40% pre-1990
• Franktown 97% owner-occupied · 51% pre-1990
• Frederick 93% owner-occupied · 21% pre-1990
• Frisco 65% owner-occupied · 56% pre-1990
• Gill 88% owner-occupied · 65% pre-1990
• Golden 73% owner-occupied · 61% pre-1990
• Greeley 62% owner-occupied · 55% pre-1990
• Green Mountain Falls 83% owner-occupied · 88% pre-1990
• Gypsum 76% owner-occupied · 47% pre-1990
• Henderson 83% owner-occupied · 10% pre-1990
• Hudson 85% owner-occupied · 45% pre-1990
• Indian Hills 89% owner-occupied · 71% pre-1990
• Johnstown 78% owner-occupied · 17% pre-1990
• Keenesburg 77% owner-occupied · 43% pre-1990
• Kersey 78% owner-occupied · 68% pre-1990
• Kiowa 91% owner-occupied · 40% pre-1990
• La Salle 86% owner-occupied · 69% pre-1990
• Lafayette 68% owner-occupied · 43% pre-1990
• Laporte 77% owner-occupied · 70% pre-1990
• Larkspur 95% owner-occupied · 31% pre-1990
• Leadville 75% owner-occupied · 70% pre-1990
• Littleton 79% owner-occupied · 50% pre-1990
• Livermore 97% owner-occupied · 41% pre-1990
• Lone Tree 54% owner-occupied · 23% pre-1990
• Longmont 69% owner-occupied · 44% pre-1990
• Louisville 67% owner-occupied · 33% pre-1990
• Loveland 67% owner-occupied · 48% pre-1990
• Lyons 86% owner-occupied · 62% pre-1990
• Manitou Springs 62% owner-occupied · 82% pre-1990
• Mead 97% owner-occupied · 8% pre-1990
• Milliken 89% owner-occupied · 10% pre-1990
• Minturn 69% owner-occupied · 66% pre-1990
• Monument 88% owner-occupied · 28% pre-1990
• Morrison 91% owner-occupied · 69% pre-1990
• Nederland 64% owner-occupied · 71% pre-1990
• Nunn 97% owner-occupied · 53% pre-1990
• Palmer Lake 88% owner-occupied · 54% pre-1990
• Parker 80% owner-occupied · 19% pre-1990
• Peyton 93% owner-occupied · 13% pre-1990
• Pierce 89% owner-occupied · 53% pre-1990
• Pine 95% owner-occupied · 69% pre-1990
• Platteville 86% owner-occupied · 48% pre-1990
• Red Feather Lakes 99% owner-occupied · 63% pre-1990
• Sedalia 89% owner-occupied · 58% pre-1990
• Silverthorne 75% owner-occupied · 49% pre-1990
• Strasburg 89% owner-occupied · 21% pre-1990
• Thornton 78% owner-occupied · 27% pre-1990
• Timnath 84% owner-occupied · 6% pre-1990
• Twin Lakes 94% owner-occupied · 69% pre-1990
• Vail 68% owner-occupied · 59% pre-1990
• Ward 87% owner-occupied · 72% pre-1990
• Watkins 98% owner-occupied · 36% pre-1990
• Wellington 84% owner-occupied · 16% pre-1990
• Westminster 67% owner-occupied · 67% pre-1990
• Wheat Ridge 49% owner-occupied · 83% pre-1990
• Windsor 81% owner-occupied · 15% pre-1990