- Postcode districts
- HP6, HP7
- Nearby
- Amersham on the Hill, Chesham and Chalfont St Peter
- Guide price
- £2,000–£5,000
- Typical time on site
- 2–4 working days
- Water
- Hard across most of Buckinghamshire
- Survey
- Free, at your home
What does a cloakroom or downstairs WC cost in Amersham?
Our guide price for a cloakroom or downstairs WC in Amersham is £2,000–£5,000 including VAT. 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
- Existing downstairs WC
Upgrade
- Vanity basin with storage
New cloakroom
- Extractor fan to regulations
Guide prices for Amersham including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Working in Amersham
As well as Amersham itself (HP6 and HP7), we survey in Amersham on the Hill, Chesham and Chalfont St Peter.
Amersham gets the same process as anywhere else: a free survey at your home and a written, itemised quote. We survey cloakrooms in Amersham with the headroom in mind as well as the floor area, because under-stair spaces lose height quickly. If your Amersham cloakroom has no window, we size and duct the extractor fan so the room clears properly.
Supplies across most of Buckinghamshire 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
- 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
- A concealed cistern frame or WC unit where the space allows
Decisions to make first
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.
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.
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.
