- Postcode districts
- BH1, BH2, BH3, BH4, BH5, BH6 + 5 more
- Nearby
- Poole, Ferndown and Wimborne Minster
- Guide price
- £1,850–£4,600
- Typical time on site
- 2–4 working days
- Water
- Hard across most of Dorset
- Survey
- Free, at your home
What does a cloakroom or downstairs WC cost in Bournemouth?
Our guide price for a cloakroom or downstairs WC in Bournemouth is £1,850–£4,600 including VAT. The figure depends on the size of the room, whether anything moves, and the products you pick.
Refit
- Compact WC and corner or wall basin
Upgrade
- Feature tiles and lighting
New cloakroom
- Formed under the stairs or in a utility
Guide prices for Bournemouth including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Working in Bournemouth
In Bournemouth we cover BH1, BH2, BH3 and 8 more postcode districts; we also cover Poole, 4.6 miles away, and Ferndown.
Bournemouth has a wide mix of house ages, so the survey is where we spot old lead pipework, weak joists or a tight soil stack. If you are refreshing a dated cloakroom in Bournemouth, a wall-hung WC and slim vanity can change the room in a few days. If your Bournemouth cloakroom has no window, we size and duct the extractor fan so the room clears properly.
Supplies across most of Dorset are 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
- Strip-out of the old fittings, waste removal and making good on the hall side
- Splashback or feature tiling and a new floor, often LVT or porcelain
- Lighting wired by a qualified electrician, tested and certified
- 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
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.
