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Toilet Repair in New Orleans, LA

New Orleans is a renting town with old housing — 49% of households rent, and 83% of homes went up before 1990.

Short version

Renting is the majority position in New Orleans, at 49% of occupied homes. A fixture in a tenancy is generally the landlord's responsibility to repair, which makes the lease the first document to look at and not the last. Housing there is 83% pre-1990, which dates the house rather than the fixture.

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 New Orleans

Renting is the norm in New Orleans, at 49% of households. We are a referral service for homeowners, so for most people here the honest advice is report it in writing and describe the symptom rather than call anyone.

Occupied homes in New Orleans	Share	Homes
Owner-occupied	51%	89,100
Rented	49%	84,584

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25003 (tenure), 2023 release. Universe: 173,684 occupied housing units.

What the age of New Orleans’s housing suggests

Housing in New Orleans is mostly older than the standard: 83% of it went up before 1990. A toilet fitted when those homes were built used at least twice what a current one does.

Whether the original is still there is a different question, and the only way to settle it is to look at the fixture.

Housing in New Orleans	Share
Built before 1940	29%
Built 1940 to 1989	53%
Built 1990 onwards	17%

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25034 (year structure built), 2023 release. Universe: 215,470 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

The fault list is short. A running tank and a weak flush are both usually parts inside the tank. A leak at the base is the one that damages the building, and a fixture that rocks is the one that causes it.

If you are quoted for a new fixture, ask what ruled out the parts. Flappers and fill valves are inexpensive and account for most of what goes wrong, so replacing the toilet without testing them has skipped a step.

Other Louisiana towns we route in

Metairie 62% owner-occupied · 83% built before 1990
Arabi 71% owner-occupied · 80% built before 1990
Loreauville 61% owner-occupied · 54% built before 1990
Mandeville 77% owner-occupied · 41% built before 1990
Braithwaite 93% owner-occupied · 53% built before 1990

Everywhere we route in Louisiana

Checking a plumber in Louisiana

Checking a credential in Louisiana

Louisiana licenses are issued by the State Plumbing Board of Louisiana, 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. We work across New Orleans on every plumbing matter, not toilets alone.

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