- Postcode districts
- MK6, MK9, MK10, MK14
- Nearby
- Leighton Buzzard, Ampthill and Kempston
- 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 Milton Keynes?
For Milton Keynes, our guide range for a cloakroom or downstairs WC is £2,000 to £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
- 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 Milton Keynes including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Working in Milton Keynes
In Milton Keynes we cover MK6, MK9, MK10 and 1 more postcode districts; we also cover Leighton Buzzard, 9.6 miles away, and Ampthill.
In a city the size of Milton Keynes, parking and access for a skip are worth sorting before the start date — we will ask at the survey. We survey cloakrooms in Milton Keynes with the headroom in mind as well as the floor area, because under-stair spaces lose height quickly. Where your Milton Keynes home already has a WC on gravity drainage, a macerator opens up more places a new cloakroom can go.
Water across much of Buckinghamshire is 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
- A survey that checks the headroom under the stairs, the door swing and how the waste will reach the drain
- A concealed cistern frame or WC unit where the space allows
- Compact sanitaryware: a short-projection, back-to-wall or wall-hung WC and a corner, wall-hung or slim vanity basin
- Lighting wired by a qualified electrician, tested and certified
Decisions to make first
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.
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.
