- Postcode districts
- TR18
- Nearby
- Camborne, Redruth and Falmouth
- Guide price
- £1,850–£4,600
- Typical time on site
- 2–4 working days
- Water
- Soft across most of Cornwall
- Survey
- Free, at your home
What does a cloakroom or downstairs WC cost in Penzance?
As a guide, budget £1,850 to £4,600 including VAT for a cloakroom or downstairs WC in Penzance; your written quote will pin it down. 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 Penzance including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Working in Penzance
We work right across Penzance — TR18 — and in neighbouring Camborne and Redruth.
Being a smaller town does not change how we work in Penzance: free survey, written quote, one team. We survey cloakrooms in Penzance with the headroom in mind as well as the floor area, because under-stair spaces lose height quickly. Where your Penzance home already has a WC on gravity drainage, a macerator opens up more places a new cloakroom can go.
Water across much of Cornwall is soft. In soft water, taps, wastes and toilet pans scale up slowly, so brushed and matt finishes are a safe choice. 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
- Splashback or feature tiling and a new floor, often LVT or porcelain
- A new waste connection to the soil stack or drain, or a macerator where the rules allow it
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.
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.
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.
