- Postcode districts
- PE27
- Nearby
- Huntingdon, St Neots and Cambridge
- 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 St Ives?
As a guide, budget £1,900 to £4,800 including VAT for a cloakroom or downstairs WC in St Ives; your written quote will pin it down. Labour costs in East of England put local prices at about 6% above the UK guide figure. The figure depends on the size of the room, whether anything moves, and the products you pick.
Refit
- Splashback tiling, new floor
Upgrade
- Wall-hung WC with concealed frame
New cloakroom
- New waste or macerator
Guide prices for St Ives including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Working in St Ives
We cover every part of St Ives, including PE27, and nearby Huntingdon (4.6 miles) and St Neots (11.3 miles).
St Ives gets the same process as anywhere else: a free survey at your home and a written, itemised quote. Where your St Ives home already has a WC on gravity drainage, a macerator opens up more places a new cloakroom can go. If your St Ives cloakroom has no window, we size and duct the extractor fan so the room clears properly.
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
- A concealed cistern frame or WC unit where the space allows
- Lighting wired by a qualified electrician, tested and certified
- A new waste connection to the soil stack or drain, or a macerator where the rules allow it
- Splashback or feature tiling and a new floor, often LVT or porcelain
Decisions to make first
Door
An outward-opening door is usually needed so it does not hit the WC. A sliding door suits a narrow hallway where an outward door would block the way.
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.
