- Postcode districts
- TS23
- Nearby
- Stockton-on-Tees, Middlesbrough and Thornaby-on-Tees
- Guide price
- £1,600–£4,000
- Typical time on site
- 2–4 working days
- Water
- Moderately hard across most of County Durham
- Survey
- Free, at your home
What does a cloakroom or downstairs WC cost in Billingham?
For Billingham, our guide range for a cloakroom or downstairs WC is £1,600 to £4,000 including VAT. Prices in North East England run at about 10% 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 Billingham including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Working in Billingham
We work right across Billingham — TS23 — and in neighbouring Stockton-on-Tees and Middlesbrough.
In Billingham, as anywhere, the age of the house decides a lot: pipe sizes, floor construction and where the soil stack runs. Where your Billingham home already has a WC on gravity drainage, a macerator opens up more places a new cloakroom can go. If you are refreshing a dated cloakroom in Billingham, a wall-hung WC and slim vanity can change the room in a few days.
Supplies across most of County Durham are 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
Basin
A corner basin fits the tightest rooms. A slim vanity basin with a cupboard underneath gives somewhere to keep spare toilet rolls and soap, and hides the trap.
WC style
A wall-hung WC on a frame gives the most floor space and looks neat. A back-to-wall pan in a short furniture unit is easier to fit against an uneven wall.
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.
