- Postcode districts
- BN20, BN21, BN23
- Nearby
- Hailsham, Seaford and Bexhill-on-Sea
- Guide price
- £2,000–£5,000
- Typical time on site
- 2–4 working days
- Water
- Hard across most of East Sussex
- Survey
- Free, at your home
What does a cloakroom or downstairs WC cost in Eastbourne?
Our guide price for a cloakroom or downstairs WC in Eastbourne is £2,000–£5,000 including VAT. We adjust the national guide for South East England, where prices are typically about 12% above the UK average. 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 Eastbourne including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Working in Eastbourne
In Eastbourne we cover BN20, BN21 and BN23; we also cover Hailsham, 6.6 miles away, and Seaford.
Across a large town like Eastbourne, homes range from older terraces to newer estates; the survey tells us which pipework and floor we are dealing with. If your Eastbourne cloakroom has no window, we size and duct the extractor fan so the room clears properly. If the only toilet in your Eastbourne home is upstairs, a cloakroom under the stairs or in the utility can save a lot of trips.
Water across much of East Sussex is 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
- Compact sanitaryware: a short-projection, back-to-wall or wall-hung WC and a corner, wall-hung or slim vanity basin
- Strip-out of the old fittings, waste removal and making good on the hall side
- A concealed cistern frame or WC unit where the space allows
- An extractor fan ducted to outside, wired with an overrun timer or linked to the light
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.
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.
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.
