- Postcode districts
- WA1, WA2, WA4
- Nearby
- Newton-le-Willows, Golborne and Haydock
- Guide price
- £1,700–£4,200
- Typical time on site
- 2–4 working days
- Water
- Moderately hard across most of Cheshire
- Survey
- Free, at your home
What does a cloakroom or downstairs WC cost in Warrington?
Guide price in Warrington: £1,700–£4,200 including VAT, depending on the room and what you choose. Prices in North West England run at about 6% below 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 Warrington including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Working in Warrington
In Warrington we cover WA1, WA2 and WA4; we also cover Newton-le-Willows, 4.1 miles away, and Golborne.
Across a large town like Warrington, homes range from older terraces to newer estates; the survey tells us which pipework and floor we are dealing with. If the only toilet in your Warrington home is upstairs, a cloakroom under the stairs or in the utility can save a lot of trips. If you are refreshing a dated cloakroom in Warrington, a wall-hung WC and slim vanity can change the room in a few days.
Water across much of Cheshire is moderately hard. Taps and wastes will need an occasional descale, and chrome or brushed finishes are easier to keep clean than polished brass. Hardness varies street by street, so check the figure for your postcode with your water supplier.
What the job includes
- An extractor fan ducted to outside, wired with an overrun timer or linked to the light
- A survey that checks the headroom under the stairs, the door swing and how the waste will reach the drain
- Strip-out of the old fittings, waste removal and making good on the hall side
- Compact sanitaryware: a short-projection, back-to-wall or wall-hung WC and a corner, wall-hung or slim vanity basin
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.
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.
