- Postcode districts
- BH12, BH13, BH14, BH15, BH17, BH18
- Nearby
- Bournemouth, Ferndown and Christchurch
- 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 Poole?
As a guide, budget £1,850 to £4,600 including VAT for a cloakroom or downstairs WC in Poole; 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
- Existing downstairs WC
Upgrade
- Vanity basin with storage
New cloakroom
- Extractor fan to regulations
Guide prices for Poole including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Working in Poole
As well as Poole itself (BH12, BH13, BH14 and 3 more postcode districts), we survey in Bournemouth, Ferndown and Christchurch.
Across a large town like Poole, homes range from older terraces to newer estates; the survey tells us which pipework and floor we are dealing with. If your Poole cloakroom has no window, we size and duct the extractor fan so the room clears properly. If the only toilet in your Poole home is upstairs, a cloakroom under the stairs or in the utility can save a lot of trips.
Most of Dorset has hard water. 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
- An extractor fan ducted to outside, wired with an overrun timer or linked to the light
- 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
- 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.
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.
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.
