- Postcode districts
- LU1, LU2, LU3, LU4
- Nearby
- Dunstable, Harpenden and Hitchin
- 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 Luton?
As a guide, budget £1,900 to £4,800 including VAT for a cloakroom or downstairs WC in Luton; your written quote will pin it down. We adjust the national guide for East of England, where prices are typically about 6% above the UK average. 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 Luton including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Working in Luton
We cover every part of Luton, including LU1, LU2, LU3 and 1 more postcode districts, and nearby Dunstable (4.5 miles) and Harpenden (5 miles).
In a city the size of Luton, parking and access for a skip are worth sorting before the start date — we will ask at the survey. Where your Luton home already has a WC on gravity drainage, a macerator opens up more places a new cloakroom can go. If your Luton cloakroom has no window, we size and duct the extractor fan so the room clears properly.
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
- Lighting wired by a qualified electrician, tested and certified
- Compact sanitaryware: a short-projection, back-to-wall or wall-hung WC and a corner, wall-hung or slim vanity basin
- An extractor fan ducted to outside, wired with an overrun timer or linked to the light
- A survey that checks the headroom under the stairs, the door swing and how the waste will reach the drain
Decisions to make first
Under-stair layout
Headroom drops quickly under stairs. The basin and the space in front of the WC need standing height; the low end of the room can take the cistern or storage.
Finishes
A small room can carry a bolder tile or wallpaper. A feature wall behind the WC costs far less here than in a full bathroom because there is so little of it.
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.
