Toilet Repair in South Carolina

Weighted across 815,698 occupied homes. Separately, 45% of the state’s 947,866 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 77 towns we route in here, 3 are mostly pre-1990 housing and 27 are mostly post-1990 housing; on tenure, 33 are strongly owner-occupied and 3 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 South Carolina

South Carolina licenses are issued by the South Carolina Residential Builders Commission, Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation, which publishes a public search you can use before work begins. South Carolina requires a residential plumber license for work over $500, according to the Commission.

• Aiken 76% owner-occupied · 50% pre-1990
• Anderson 71% owner-occupied · 56% pre-1990
• Aynor 86% owner-occupied · 45% pre-1990
• Beech Island 80% owner-occupied · 67% pre-1990
• Belton 80% owner-occupied · 60% pre-1990
• Blacksburg 74% owner-occupied · 62% pre-1990
• Blackstock 99% owner-occupied · 62% pre-1990
• Buffalo 75% owner-occupied · 56% pre-1990
• Carlisle 76% owner-occupied · 59% pre-1990
• Catawba 88% owner-occupied · 47% pre-1990
• Central 47% owner-occupied · 48% pre-1990
• Chester 74% owner-occupied · 71% pre-1990
• Clarks Hill 93% owner-occupied · 34% pre-1990
• Clemson 42% owner-occupied · 55% pre-1990
• Clover 79% owner-occupied · 33% pre-1990
• Conway 76% owner-occupied · 39% pre-1990
• Easley 78% owner-occupied · 50% pre-1990
• Edgemoor 89% owner-occupied · 32% pre-1990
• Fort Lawn 75% owner-occupied · 46% pre-1990
• Fort Mill 83% owner-occupied · 15% pre-1990
• Fountain Inn 72% owner-occupied · 39% pre-1990
• Gaffney 73% owner-occupied · 63% pre-1990
• Galivants Ferry 79% owner-occupied · 39% pre-1990
• Graniteville 80% owner-occupied · 38% pre-1990
• Great Falls 85% owner-occupied · 82% pre-1990
• Green Sea 49% owner-occupied · 41% pre-1990
• Greenville 55% owner-occupied · 57% pre-1990
• Greer 79% owner-occupied · 38% pre-1990
• Gresham 68% owner-occupied · 46% pre-1990
• Heath Springs 78% owner-occupied · 50% pre-1990
• Hickory Grove 66% owner-occupied · 53% pre-1990
• Jackson 83% owner-occupied · 67% pre-1990
• Jonesville 79% owner-occupied · 71% pre-1990
• Kershaw 76% owner-occupied · 72% pre-1990
• Lancaster 78% owner-occupied · 54% pre-1990
• Liberty 85% owner-occupied · 47% pre-1990
• Little River 80% owner-occupied · 27% pre-1990
• Longs 86% owner-occupied · 17% pre-1990
• Loris 69% owner-occupied · 40% pre-1990
• Marietta 82% owner-occupied · 47% pre-1990
• Marion 58% owner-occupied · 68% pre-1990
• Mauldin 69% owner-occupied · 55% pre-1990
• McConnells 81% owner-occupied · 43% pre-1990
• Mount Croghan 61% owner-occupied · 34% pre-1990
• Mullins 61% owner-occupied · 58% pre-1990
• Murrells Inlet 87% owner-occupied · 29% pre-1990
• Myrtle Beach 72% owner-occupied · 35% pre-1990
• New Ellenton 77% owner-occupied · 75% pre-1990
• Nichols 79% owner-occupied · 63% pre-1990
• North Augusta 76% owner-occupied · 57% pre-1990
• North Myrtle Beach 81% owner-occupied · 43% pre-1990
• Pageland 65% owner-occupied · 54% pre-1990
• Pawleys Island 87% owner-occupied · 29% pre-1990
• Pelzer 83% owner-occupied · 62% pre-1990
• Pendleton 69% owner-occupied · 52% pre-1990
• Pickens 83% owner-occupied · 58% pre-1990
• Piedmont 74% owner-occupied · 52% pre-1990
• Richburg 85% owner-occupied · 44% pre-1990
• Rock Hill 66% owner-occupied · 45% pre-1990
• Ruby 88% owner-occupied · 66% pre-1990
• Salem 96% owner-occupied · 42% pre-1990
• Seneca 69% owner-occupied · 51% pre-1990
• Sharon 87% owner-occupied · 47% pre-1990
• Simpsonville 82% owner-occupied · 23% pre-1990
• Six Mile 94% owner-occupied · 33% pre-1990
• Smyrna 86% owner-occupied · 38% pre-1990
• Starr 81% owner-occupied · 46% pre-1990
• Taylors 77% owner-occupied · 56% pre-1990
• Townville 87% owner-occupied · 41% pre-1990
• Travelers Rest 81% owner-occupied · 48% pre-1990
• Trenton 84% owner-occupied · 49% pre-1990
• Union 65% owner-occupied · 75% pre-1990
• Wagener 77% owner-occupied · 50% pre-1990
• Warrenville 75% owner-occupied · 49% pre-1990
• West Union 89% owner-occupied · 39% pre-1990
• Williamston 76% owner-occupied · 50% pre-1990
• York 81% owner-occupied · 37% pre-1990