- Postcode districts
- MK45
- Nearby
- Kempston, Bedford and Dunstable
- Guide price
- £1,900–£4,800
- Typical time on site
- 2–4 working days
- Water
- Very hard across most of Bedfordshire
- Survey
- Free, at your home
What does a cloakroom or downstairs WC cost in Ampthill?
In Ampthill, a cloakroom or downstairs WC typically costs £1,900–£4,800 including VAT, based on East of England prices. 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.
Refit
- Existing downstairs WC
Upgrade
- Vanity basin with storage
New cloakroom
- Extractor fan to regulations
Guide prices for Ampthill including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Working in Ampthill
We work right across Ampthill — MK45 — and in neighbouring Kempston and Bedford.
Being a smaller town does not change how we work in Ampthill: free survey, written quote, one team. If your Ampthill cloakroom has no window, we size and duct the extractor fan so the room clears properly. Where your Ampthill home already has a WC on gravity drainage, a macerator opens up more places a new cloakroom can go.
Most of Bedfordshire has very hard water. Taps, plug wastes and toilet pans scale up quickly, so chrome copes better than matt black, and a removable aerator is worth having. Hardness varies street by street, so check the figure for your postcode with your water supplier.
What the job includes
- Strip-out of the old fittings, waste removal and making good on the hall side
- Compact sanitaryware: a short-projection, back-to-wall or wall-hung WC and a corner, wall-hung or slim vanity basin
- Splashback or feature tiling and a new floor, often LVT or porcelain
- An extractor fan ducted to outside, wired with an overrun timer or linked to the light
Decisions to make first
Door
An outward-opening door is usually needed so it does not hit the WC. A sliding door suits a narrow hallway where an outward door would block the way.
Macerator or gravity
Gravity drainage is silent and needs no maintenance. A macerator lets a WC go where a pipe could not otherwise fall, provided another WC in the house is on gravity drainage.
Rules that apply in England
In England, a new WC connected to the soil stack or drain is drainage work under Part H, and a newly formed cloakroom without an opening window should have mechanical extract; Approved Document F gives 6 litres per second as the design rate for a WC, against 15 for a bathroom. Because a cloakroom has no bath or shower, adding a light to an existing circuit is not notifiable under Part P, but a new circuit is.
