Toilet Repair and Installation in Richardson, TX

Most toilet repairs run $150 to $400. A flapper or fill valve is $150 to $250. A full tank rebuild is $200 to $400. A wax ring reset is $250 to $450. A clog clearing is $150 to $350. Toilet installation is $250 to $500 for labor if you supply the toilet, or $350 to $900 including a standard toilet. Haul-away is included.

Reach behind the toilet near the floor and turn the shutoff valve clockwise until it stops. That stops the water. If the valve will not turn, lift the tank lid and push the flapper down at the bottom of the tank to seal it. Do not flush again to see if it clears. It will not. Once the water is off, call 214-918-6109.

Almost always the flapper, which is the rubber disc at the bottom of the tank. It is a $15 part and a ten-minute swap with no tools. Here is a free test: put a few drops of food coloring in the tank, do not flush, wait twenty minutes. If color appears in the bowl, the flapper is leaking. A running toilet can waste over 200 gallons a day, so if yours has been running six months you have already paid for that part many times over on your water bill.

If only this toilet is affected and everything else drains fine, it is the toilet. If the toilet backs up when the washing machine drains, if the tub gurgles when you flush, or if more than one fixture is backing up, the problem is in your main sewer line. A new toilet will not fix that, and neither will a plunger.

Usually. A closet auger is about $25 at any hardware store and has a rubber sleeve so it will not scratch the porcelain. That clears most toilet clogs. A flat-cup plunger works too if you get a real seal. What you should not do is pour a chemical drain opener in. It cannot clear a toilet trap, and it leaves a caustic liquid sitting in the bowl for whoever puts a hand or an auger in there next.

No. Augering a solid object usually pushes it further into the trap or into the line and turns a $200 job into pulling the toilet. Call us and let us get it out.

The rough-in is the distance from the finished wall to the center of the bolts holding the toilet down. It is 12 inches in most modern homes, but 10-inch rough-ins are common in 1950s and 1960s houses, which describes a lot of Richardson. If you buy a standard 12-inch toilet and your house has a 10-inch rough-in, it will not fit. Measure before you buy, or let us measure and source the right one.

Yes, more serious than it feels. It usually means the closet flange (the ring bolted to the floor) has broken or corroded, or the subfloor under it has softened from a long-term leak. A new wax ring will not fix a broken flange. The toilet will not sit level and it will leak again in six months. Common in older Richardson homes.

Usually the flange. A big-box installer quotes a straight swap. Then they pull the old toilet, find a broken flange and a rotted subfloor, and either walk away or start adding line items. We look at the flange before we quote so the number we give you is the number.

Repair if it is running (a $15 flapper), if it leaks at the base (wax ring), or if it rocks (flange). Replace if the tank or bowl is cracked, since porcelain does not get patched, or if it is over 25 years old and you are already paying for a repair. If it clogs constantly and nothing else in the house does, some 1990s low-flow designs are simply bad and no repair fixes that.

If you call before noon on a weekday, usually yes. We are not a 24-hour company. And here is the honest part: a toilet is almost never a real emergency, because you can shut the valve. If you shut the water off and you have another bathroom, we will usually tell you to call Monday and save the $199 after-hours fee.

Yes, included. Nobody should have to figure out how to get a toilet to the curb.