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Toilet Repair in Franklin Park, NJ

Franklin Park is a newer town, 43% of its housing built before 1990, where about 33% of households rent.

Short version

67% of occupied homes in Franklin Park are owner-occupied and 33% are rented, which is close enough to even that the first question is which you are. A landlord is generally responsible for a fixture in a tenancy; an owner is not. Most of the housing there postdates 1990, so a 1.6 gallon fixture is the likely one, and age is rarely the explanation.

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 Franklin Park

With 67% owning and 33% renting, Franklin Park is close to evenly split. Work out which you are before anything else — it is the one fact that changes every other answer on this page.

Occupied homes in Franklin Park	Share	Homes
Owner-occupied	67%	2,307
Rented	33%	1,138

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25003 (tenure), 2023 release. Universe: 3,445 occupied housing units.

What the age of Franklin Park’s housing suggests

With only 43% of homes built before 1990, Franklin Park is a town of modern fixtures. EPA’s WaterSense label goes further than the standard at 1.28 gallons per flush.

The figure is about construction dates rather than what is bolted to the floor, but in a town this new the two are less likely to have diverged.

Housing in Franklin Park	Share
Built before 1940	3%
Built 1940 to 1989	40%
Built 1990 onwards	57%

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25034 (year structure built), 2023 release. Universe: 3,445 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

Work from the symptom rather than the fixture. Continuous running has a ten-minute test that settles it; water at the base is identified by when it appears rather than where; and a handle that does nothing is visible the moment the tank lid is off.

Ask them to name the fault before they name the price. “The toilet needs replacing” is not a diagnosis; “the flapper seat is pitted and will not hold a new flapper” is, and it happens to be a common one.

Other New Jersey towns we route in

Atlantic Highlands 69% owner-occupied · 72% built before 1990
Lanoka Harbor 95% owner-occupied · 65% built before 1990
Merchantville 72% owner-occupied · 89% built before 1990
Closter 82% owner-occupied · 86% built before 1990
Elizabethport 27% owner-occupied · 72% built before 1990

Everywhere we route in New Jersey

Checking a plumber in New Jersey

Checking a credential in New Jersey

New Jersey licenses are issued by the New Jersey State Board of Examiners of Master Plumbers, Division of Consumer Affairs, 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. Anything plumbing-related from Franklin Park is taken on this number.

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