Toilet & Faucet Replacement in Ahwatukee Foothills, Phoenix
Toilets, Faucets & Stop Valves | Arizona's 1994 Line | Google 5.0 Rated
A household in Ahwatukee Foothills rings about the toilets, plural, and expects one answer for the house. It rarely is one answer. Ahwatukee Foothills was built on both sides of January 1, 1994, the date Arizona capped a toilet at 1.6 gallons a flush, and the toilets inside a single house here have usually been replaced piecemeal since, so the three bathrooms are three separate decisions with three different dates in the china.
So the stamp is read in every bathroom before anything is quoted, and the quote comes back per toilet. One may be an original from the 3.5-gallon years where a replacement changes what the meter records. One may be a 1.6 somebody fitted in 2003 that wants a flapper and nothing else. Treating them as a set is how a household ends up replacing a toilet that had years left in it.
AZ ROC #150707
Licensed, Bonded & Insured
Toilet & Faucet Repairs
Faucet Rebuilds
Kitchen & Bath Faucets
Christian, Family-Owned Company
Weekday & Saturday, 7-7
Appointments from seven until seven, Monday through Saturday; closed on Sundays.Card-Free Billing
Zelle, checks, and cash cover every invoice.Fifteen for Veterans & 55+
Veterans and customers 55+ get 15%; first responders, seniors, and military members, 10%.Ten Percent Under $300
A service call that totals $300 or less is 10% off.Message Back Soon
Miss us, and you'll usually hear back from us within 10 to 15 minutes.Beyond 50 Miles
Beyond a 50-mile radius, a $75 travel fee applies.AZ ROC #150707
Licensed, Bonded & Insured
Toilet & Faucet Repairs
Faucet Rebuilds
Kitchen & Bath Faucets
Christian, Family-Owned Company
Weekday & Saturday, 7-7
Appointments from seven until seven, Monday through Saturday; closed on Sundays.Card-Free Billing
Zelle, checks, and cash cover every invoice.Fifteen for Veterans & 55+
Veterans and customers 55+ get 15%; first responders, seniors, and military members, 10%.Ten Percent Under $300
A service call that totals $300 or less is 10% off.Message Back Soon
Miss us, and you'll usually hear back from us within 10 to 15 minutes.Beyond 50 Miles
Beyond a 50-mile radius, a $75 travel fee applies.The 1994 Flush Limit and Ahwatukee's Build Years
Arizona wrote its own low-flow rule for toilets, and it took effect in the middle of Ahwatukee's building boom. The date on a toilet, and the gallons stamped beside it, place it on one side of that rule or the other. According to Census estimates, a large share of 85044 and part of 85048 were built before that date.
What the state law says
Arizona Revised Statutes 45-312 took effect on January 1, 1994. From that date, no one may sell or install a plumbing fixture in a new home, or as a replacement in an existing one, unless it meets the statute's standards, and for toilets the standard is that they “use no more than an average of one and six-tenths gallons of water per flush.”
What the law reaches, and what it leaves
The statute's verbs concern moving and fitting fixtures: distributing, selling, offering for sale, importing, and installing. It covers new residential construction and the replacement of fixtures in existing homes.
Reading the stamp against the years
The Saving Water Partnership, a group of water utilities, pairs flush volumes with the years toilets were made:
Read every tank in the house, including the quiet ones
The act this page asks of you takes about five minutes and a flashlight. Lift each tank lid, lay it somewhere flat, and look at the back wall inside the tank and at the underside of the lid itself. What you are after is a gallons figure and a date, usually a month and a year molded into the china. Write both down against the bathroom they came from, and do it for every toilet in the house, including the ones behaving themselves.
What comes back is usually a list, and the list is the quote. A toilet stamped 3.5 gallons that still works can stay, and repair parts keep it running; once it does come out, its successor has to be 1.6 or under, with WaterSense models at 1.28. A toilet stamped 1.6 already meets the line, so the only question there is the condition of its parts. Phoenix water customers in single-family homes can apply for up to $75 from the City toward a WaterSense toilet of 1.28 gallons or less when the old toilet is stamped 3 gallons or more, while funding lasts, and that offer reads off the stamp too.
Where an Ahwatukee Fixture Quote Starts
Ahwatukee Toilets, Read by Their Stamps
“The lid says 1987, and every flush sounds like a waterfall.”
An original from the 3.5-gallon years.
By the Saving Water Partnership's table, a toilet made between 1982 and 1992 was typically built for 3.5 gallons a flush.
“A previous owner swapped the toilets. How do we tell how old they actually are?”
The china dates itself, and the build year of the house has nothing to say about it.
The build year only says what went in first. A toilet put in since then carries its own stamp, which is why the tank is read before anyone assumes the toilet is original.
“The toilet has a 3.5 stamp, and now there's a hairline crack in the tank.”
A crack settles it.
A cracked tank or bowl ends the repair question, whatever the stamp says. The only choice left is which new toilet goes in its place.
“The bathroom faucet leaks around the base of the handle.”
Brand first, the way a toilet starts with its stamp.
The name on the handle or spout tells us whether its maker still sells a seal kit or cartridge for that model. A faucet from the builder's years whose parts are gone is replaced, with new supply lines under it, and its flow rating is read the same way a toilet's stamp is.
Repairs, Replacements and Stops in Ahwatukee
Toilet work covers new flush valves, fill valves and flappers, resetting a toilet that rocks on its seal, and setting a new toilet where the old one stood. Faucet work covers rebuilding kitchen and bathroom faucets with new cartridges or seals, replacing them outright, and changing the supply lines and stop valves underneath. Relocating a toilet is outside our work.
Fixtures we supply come with a warranty; on a fixture you supply, our installation is warranted, and the fixture itself is not.
In homes built before 1978, we only take on work that leaves painted surfaces undisturbed. If a repair would need a painted wall opened, that part goes to a lead-safe certified contractor you hire directly; we do not perform or arrange it.
Starting Inside the Tank
Have the list of stamps in front of you
One line per bathroom: the gallons figure, the date, and whether that one is the one giving trouble. With the list on the table (602) 883-2787 can price the house a toilet at a time. For a faucet, the brand is enough to start.
Tank, bowl, and valves looked over
On site, the flush parts, the seal at the base, the supply line, and the stop valve are checked, and the stamp is confirmed.
Priced against the 1.6 line
A sound toilet gets a repair price; a replacement is quoted at 1.6 gallons or less, with a 1.28 option beside it.
The toilet goes down on a new seal
A new toilet goes onto a new seal with a new supply line, or the repair parts go in; a faucet is mounted and connected to its stops.
Flushed, watched at every joint, and carted away
Several flushes, a check at the base and at each connection, and the old toilet goes out with us along with its packaging.
Serving Ahwatukee Foothills From Our Phoenix Base
American Discount Plumbing is based in Phoenix and serves all of Ahwatukee Foothills.
Ahwatukee Fixture FAQs on the 1994 Line
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Yes. Arizona's law does not require a working toilet to come out. Replacement parts keep one running; the limit applies when it is swapped.
No. ARS 45-312 bars installing a toilet at more than 1.6 gallons per flush as a replacement in an existing home, and it covers installing as well as selling, so an older, heavy-flush toilet from a garage or a friend can't be set in its place.
Likely. The Saving Water Partnership's table starts the 1.6-gallon era in 1993, a year before Arizona's limit took effect, but the gallons figure on the tank is the one to trust.
The ones built to today's rules do. The Saving Water Partnership shows a dual-flush tank stamped for either 1 gallon or 1.6 gallons, so both of its flushes sit at or under the line.
It does. The same statute sets a limit for replacement kitchen and bathroom faucets and aerators: an average of three gallons a minute at a pressure of 80 psi. The rating printed on a new faucet shows where it sits.
Yes. A companion statute, ARS 45-313, applies the 1.6-gallon limit from January 1, 1994 to new and replacement fixtures in commercial, industrial and public buildings.
Only if it weeps or will not close, in which case it gets its own price, and the choice stays yours.
Every Service in Ahwatukee Foothills
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Bathroom Calls on Google
Some of our Google reviews are from small bathroom jobs like these.
Deciding on a Toilet or Faucet in Ahwatukee? Call American Discount Plumbing
If the toilet on the 3.5 side of the stamp keeps needing parts, call (602) 883-2787 and ask for both prices.
The next person to look into these tanks will find a date and a volume for each bathroom on the invoice, because each one was read and priced individually.
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