Toilet Repair in Kansas

Weighted across 279,528 occupied homes. Separately, 59% of the state’s 296,486 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 9 towns we route in here, 2 are mostly pre-1990 housing and 3 are mostly post-1990 housing; on tenure, 2 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 Kansas

Kansas sets no statewide plumbing license; cities and counties set their own requirements. Start here. Ask the contractor which municipality licenses them and confirm it with that office before work begins.

• Bucyrus 100% owner-occupied · 32% pre-1990
• Kansas City 61% owner-occupied · 82% pre-1990
• Leawood 76% owner-occupied · 56% pre-1990
• Lenexa 60% owner-occupied · 46% pre-1990
• Mission 60% owner-occupied · 83% pre-1990
• Olathe 74% owner-occupied · 43% pre-1990
• Overland Park 61% owner-occupied · 53% pre-1990
• Shawnee 77% owner-occupied · 57% pre-1990
• Stilwell 85% owner-occupied · 35% pre-1990