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Toilet Repair in Collierville, TN

Collierville is a newer town, 29% of its housing built before 1990, where about 20% of households rent.

Short version

80% of occupied homes in Collierville are owner-occupied and 20% 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 Collierville

With 80% owning and 20% renting, Collierville 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 Collierville	Share	Homes
Owner-occupied	80%	15,927
Rented	20%	4,042

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25003 (tenure), 2023 release. Universe: 19,969 occupied housing units.

What the age of Collierville’s housing suggests

With only 29% of homes built before 1990, Collierville 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 Collierville	Share
Built before 1940	1%
Built 1940 to 1989	28%
Built 1990 onwards	71%

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25034 (year structure built), 2023 release. Universe: 20,850 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

Four complaints cover nearly all of it, and they are different faults rather than degrees of one. Running is the flapper or the fill valve. Nothing at all is usually the chain or a blockage. Water on the floor is four possibilities, one of which is not a leak. A weak flush is the water level, the chain, or the specification.

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 Tennessee towns we route in

Mason 68% owner-occupied · 51% built before 1990
Chapmansboro 88% owner-occupied · 46% built before 1990
Hartsville 72% owner-occupied · 50% built before 1990
Franklin 72% owner-occupied · 31% built before 1990
Fairview 81% owner-occupied · 41% built before 1990

Everywhere we route in Tennessee

Checking a plumber in Tennessee

Checking a credential in Tennessee

Tennessee licenses are issued by the Tennessee Board for Licensing Contractors, Department of Commerce and Insurance, 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. Whatever wants a plumber in Collierville can be raised when you call.

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