Toilet Repair in Idaho

Weighted across 346,487 occupied homes. Separately, 43% of the state’s 362,511 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 30 towns we route in here, 2 are mostly pre-1990 housing and 10 are mostly post-1990 housing; on tenure, 15 are strongly owner-occupied and 0 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 Idaho

Idaho licenses are issued by the Idaho State Plumbing Board, Division of Occupational and Professional Licenses, which publishes a public search you can use before work begins.

• Arimo 85% owner-occupied · 80% pre-1990
• Blackfoot 81% owner-occupied · 62% pre-1990
• Boise 66% owner-occupied · 55% pre-1990
• Caldwell 74% owner-occupied · 40% pre-1990
• Downey 84% owner-occupied · 67% pre-1990
• Eagle 86% owner-occupied · 20% pre-1990
• Emmett 75% owner-occupied · 58% pre-1990
• Firth 88% owner-occupied · 69% pre-1990
• Fruitland 78% owner-occupied · 45% pre-1990
• Garden City 74% owner-occupied · 29% pre-1990
• Greenleaf 73% owner-occupied · 64% pre-1990
• Homedale 71% owner-occupied · 63% pre-1990
• Inkom 88% owner-occupied · 62% pre-1990
• Kuna 83% owner-occupied · 21% pre-1990
• Lava Hot Springs 82% owner-occupied · 53% pre-1990
• Malad City 87% owner-occupied · 68% pre-1990
• Marsing 75% owner-occupied · 52% pre-1990
• Mccammon 94% owner-occupied · 63% pre-1990
• Melba 81% owner-occupied · 43% pre-1990
• Meridian 77% owner-occupied · 14% pre-1990
• Middleton 90% owner-occupied · 24% pre-1990
• Nampa 74% owner-occupied · 36% pre-1990
• New Plymouth 86% owner-occupied · 63% pre-1990
• Notus 79% owner-occupied · 57% pre-1990
• Parma 70% owner-occupied · 56% pre-1990
• Payette 64% owner-occupied · 77% pre-1990
• Pingree 86% owner-occupied · 73% pre-1990
• Pocatello 67% owner-occupied · 68% pre-1990
• Star 81% owner-occupied · 12% pre-1990
• Wilder 78% owner-occupied · 49% pre-1990