- Postcode districts
- CB1, CB2, CB4
- Nearby
- Royston, St Ives and Newmarket
- Guide price
- £1,900–£4,800
- Typical time on site
- 2–4 working days
- Water
- Very hard across most of Cambridgeshire
- Survey
- Free, at your home
What does a cloakroom or downstairs WC cost in Cambridge?
Guide price in Cambridge: £1,900–£4,800 including VAT, depending on the room and what you choose. Prices in East of England run at about 6% 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 Cambridge including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Working in Cambridge
As well as Cambridge itself (CB1, CB2 and CB4), we survey in Royston, St Ives and Newmarket.
Cambridge is a big place with every kind of home, from terraces to flats to new builds, so we never price from a photo alone. If you are refreshing a dated cloakroom in Cambridge, a wall-hung WC and slim vanity can change the room in a few days. We survey cloakrooms in Cambridge with the headroom in mind as well as the floor area, because under-stair spaces lose height quickly.
Water across much of Cambridgeshire is very 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
- Strip-out of the old fittings, waste removal and making good on the hall side
- Splashback or feature tiling and a new floor, often LVT or porcelain
- 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.
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.
