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Toilet Repair in Metro Vancouver

A toilet that runs between flushes is the quietest expensive problem in a house. One that leaks at the base is a much more urgent one.

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Toilet Repair

Cheap to Fix Now, Expensive to Ignore

Nearly everything that goes wrong with a toilet is a low-cost part: a flapper, a fill valve, a wax seal, a set of fixing bolts. What makes toilets expensive is time — a base leak quietly rotting a subfloor, or a running tank on a metered supply.

We carry the common internals, so most toilet calls are done in one visit. If your toilet genuinely is beyond sensible repair, we will quote a replacement rather than sell you a repair that will not last.

  • ✓Running tanks — flappers, fill valves and float adjustment.
  • ✓Base leaks — wax seal and flange repair, including damaged flanges.
  • ✓Rocking pans — refixed and levelled before the seal fails.
  • ✓Weak flush — rim jets, water level and flapper timing.
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Toilet Repairs We Handle

  • Constantly running or refilling
  • Water leaking at the base
  • Rocking or loose toilets
  • Weak or incomplete flush
  • Leaking tank-to-bowl connections
  • Failed fill and flush valves
  • Leaking supply lines and shut-offs
  • Blocked traps
  • Damaged closet flanges
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While We Are There

Most calls turn up something else worth looking at. Here is what else we handle.

FAQs

Toilet Repair Questions

Almost always the flapper or the fill valve. The flapper is a rubber seal that hardens and stops sealing the tank, so water trickles into the bowl and the fill valve keeps topping up. Both are inexpensive parts and a short visit. Left alone, a running toilet wastes more water than any other fixture in the house.
Treat it as urgent. It usually means the wax seal between the pan and the flange has failed, which means water — and waste — is escaping under the toilet and into the subfloor every flush. The repair itself is routine. The floor damage from ignoring it for a year is not.
Yes. A rocking pan works the wax seal loose every time it moves, so a wobble today is a base leak later. It usually means the fixing bolts have worked loose or the floor is uneven. Both are easy to correct before they become a floor repair.
Usually not. Weak flushing is most often mineral build-up in the rim jets, a flapper closing too early, or the tank water level set too low. All three are adjustments or cheap parts. Genuinely worn-out toilets exist, but they are a lot rarer than people assume.
If one toilet blocks often, it is usually what is going down it — wipes are the main culprit, including the ones labelled flushable — or a partial obstruction in the trap. If several fixtures back up together, that is a drain problem further along the system rather than a toilet problem.

Running, Leaking or Blocked?

Most toilet repairs are quick and inexpensive. Leaving them is the costly part.

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