- Postcode districts
- SL1, SL2, SL3
- Nearby
- Windsor, Maidenhead and Gerrards Cross
- Guide price
- £2,000–£5,000
- Typical time on site
- 2–4 working days
- Water
- Hard across most of Berkshire
- Survey
- Free, at your home
What does a cloakroom or downstairs WC cost in Slough?
Guide price in Slough: £2,000–£5,000 including VAT, depending on the room and what you choose. Prices in South East England run at about 12% above the national guide, mainly because of labour rates. The figure depends on the size of the room, whether anything moves, and the products you pick.
Refit
- Compact WC and corner or wall basin
Upgrade
- Feature tiles and lighting
New cloakroom
- Formed under the stairs or in a utility
Guide prices for Slough including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Working in Slough
In Slough we cover SL1, SL2 and SL3; we also cover Windsor, 1.8 miles away, and Maidenhead.
Across a large town like Slough, homes range from older terraces to newer estates; the survey tells us which pipework and floor we are dealing with. For a new cloakroom in Slough, the first thing we look at is where the nearest drain or soil stack runs. If you are refreshing a dated cloakroom in Slough, a wall-hung WC and slim vanity can change the room in a few days.
Supplies across most of Berkshire are hard. 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
- 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 concealed cistern frame or WC unit where the space allows
- Strip-out of the old fittings, waste removal and making good on the hall side
Decisions to make first
WC style
A wall-hung WC on a frame gives the most floor space and looks neat. A back-to-wall pan in a short furniture unit is easier to fit against an uneven wall.
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.
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.
