- Postcode districts
- PE27
- Nearby
- Huntingdon, St Neots and Cambridge
- Guide price
- £265–£650
- Typical time on site
- half a day
- Water
- Very hard across most of Cambridgeshire
- Survey
- Free, at your home
What does a bathroom extractor fan cost in St Ives?
Guide price in St Ives: £265–£650 including VAT, depending on the room and what you choose. Labour costs in East of England put local prices at about 6% above the UK guide figure. The figure depends on the size of the room, whether anything moves, and the products you pick.
Extractor fan
- Ducted to outside
Inline fan
- Grille in the ceiling
Continuous extract
- Low-energy fan running all the time
Guide prices for St Ives including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Working in St Ives
As well as St Ives itself (PE27), we survey in Huntingdon, St Neots and Cambridge.
St Ives gets the same process as anywhere else: a free survey at your home and a written, itemised quote. In St Ives flats, a new vent through an outside wall may need freeholder consent, so we raise it at the survey. Fans fitted in St Ives bathrooms are wired by a qualified electrician, with RCD protection and an isolator outside the room.
Water across much of Cambridgeshire is very hard. Steam carries that scale onto mirrors and glass, so a fan that clears the room quickly helps on both counts. Hardness varies street by street, so check the figure for your postcode with your water supplier.
What the job includes
- A fan chosen to meet the bathroom extract rate: 15 l/s intermittent or 8 l/s continuous
- Core-drilling through the wall, or ducting through the loft to a roof or soffit vent
- Rigid or semi-rigid ducting kept short and straight, and insulated where it crosses a cold loft
- Wiring by a qualified electrician, with an isolator outside the room and RCD protection
Decisions to make first
Axial, centrifugal or inline
Axial fans suit short, straight runs; centrifugal fans cope better with longer ducts; inline fans sit in the loft and are the quietest in the room.
Wall or ceiling
A wall fan on an outside wall is the simplest. A ceiling fan over the shower takes steam away at source but needs ducting through the loft.
Rules that apply in England
In England, Approved Document F sets bathroom extract at 15 l/s for an intermittent fan or 8 l/s for continuous extract. Wiring a new fan alters a circuit in a room with a bath or shower, so it is notifiable under Part P.
