- Postcode districts
- TS15, TS16, TS17
- Nearby
- Thornaby-on-Tees, Stockton-on-Tees and Billingham
- 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 Yarm?
Our guide price for a cloakroom or downstairs WC in Yarm is £1,600–£4,000 including VAT. Labour costs in North East England put local prices at about 10% below the UK guide figure. 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 Yarm including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Working in Yarm
In Yarm we cover TS15, TS16 and TS17; we also cover Thornaby-on-Tees, 3.1 miles away, and Stockton-on-Tees.
Yarm gets the same process as anywhere else: a free survey at your home and a written, itemised quote. Where your Yarm home already has a WC on gravity drainage, a macerator opens up more places a new cloakroom can go. If the only toilet in your Yarm home is upstairs, a cloakroom under the stairs or in the utility can save a lot of trips.
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
- 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
- Splashback or feature tiling and a new floor, often LVT or porcelain
- A concealed cistern frame or WC unit where the space allows
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.
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.
