- Postcode districts
- CM13, CM14, CM15
- Nearby
- Billericay, Hornchurch and Romford
- Guide price
- £1,900–£4,800
- Typical time on site
- 2–4 working days
- Water
- Very hard across most of Essex
- Survey
- Free, at your home
What does a cloakroom or downstairs WC cost in Brentwood?
Our guide price for a cloakroom or downstairs WC in Brentwood is £1,900–£4,800 including VAT. Prices in East of England run at about 6% above 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
- 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 Brentwood including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Working in Brentwood
As well as Brentwood itself (CM13, CM14 and CM15), we survey in Billericay, Hornchurch and Romford.
Homes in and around Brentwood vary, so we look at the floor, the walls and the water system before we price anything. If the only toilet in your Brentwood home is upstairs, a cloakroom under the stairs or in the utility can save a lot of trips. We survey cloakrooms in Brentwood with the headroom in mind as well as the floor area, because under-stair spaces lose height quickly.
Most of Essex has very 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
- Lighting wired by a qualified electrician, tested and certified
- Splashback or feature tiling and a new floor, often LVT or porcelain
- An extractor fan ducted to outside, wired with an overrun timer or linked to the light
- 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.
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.
