Flushometer Toilet Installation, Repair, and Retrofit
HT Strenger services the flushometer toilets and urinals that run in schools, hospitals, office buildings, restaurants, retail stores, and municipal facilities across Lake County and Chicagoland. If your restroom uses the exposed chrome valve above the bowl instead of a tank, you have a flushometer. When they work, they last for decades. When they fail, they flood a stall, run continuously, or refuse to flush at all. We rebuild the ones worth rebuilding, replace the ones that are past it, and retrofit older units to modern low-flow standards. IL Plumbing License #055-013973.
Common Failures We Fix
- Constant trickle or full-on running (usually a worn diaphragm kit, sometimes a stuck relief valve).
- Weak or short flush that does not clear the bowl (often a debris-clogged control stop or a dying diaphragm).
- No flush at all (broken handle assembly, closed control stop, or blown vacuum breaker).
- Water hammer or a loud “clunk” at the end of the flush (worn parts, or the wrong flush volume for the fixture).
- Sensor-operated units that flush on their own or ignore the user (dirty sensor, dying battery, or bad solenoid).
Most of these are 30-minute fixes with the right rebuild kit on the truck. We stock parts for the major manufacturers (Sloan, Zurn, Delany, Toto, and American Standard) so we are not guessing on the second visit.
Manual, Sensor, and Retrofit Options
Sensor-operated flushometers are the standard install now in high-traffic public restrooms because they reduce touch points and cut water waste from users who walk away without flushing. We install hardwired and battery-powered sensor units, and we retrofit manual valves to sensor operation without replacing the whole fixture. If your building is chasing a LEED or WaterSense credit, we can also drop flush volumes from older 3.5 gallon-per-flush units down to modern 1.28 or 1.6 GPF without replacing bowls that were designed for the higher volumes.
Pro Tip: Before you replace an entire flushometer, ask about a rebuild kit. A full diaphragm and seal rebuild on a Sloan Royal or Zurn valve is usually a fraction of the cost of a new valve and gives you another 10 to 15 years of service on the same body.
ADA Compliance and Fixture-Height Issues
Public restrooms in Illinois follow both the Illinois Accessibility Code and the ADA Standards for Accessible Design. When we replace flushometers in a school or office renovation, we double-check that the bowl height, side clearance, and control-side reach match current code. It is a common thing missed on cosmetic remodels, and it becomes a bigger problem at the next inspection than it needed to be.
Talk to Us About Your Restrooms
Whether you have one running valve at your storefront or a full building’s worth of aging fixtures, we can inspect, quote, and schedule the work around your operating hours. Call 847-566-0871 or use our contact form.