- Postcode districts
- SS6
- Nearby
- Hadleigh, South Benfleet and Wickford
- 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 Rayleigh?
Our guide price for a cloakroom or downstairs WC in Rayleigh 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 Rayleigh including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Working in Rayleigh
We work right across Rayleigh — SS6 — and in neighbouring Hadleigh and South Benfleet.
Homes in and around Rayleigh vary, so we look at the floor, the walls and the water system before we price anything. Where your Rayleigh home already has a WC on gravity drainage, a macerator opens up more places a new cloakroom can go. If your Rayleigh cloakroom has no window, we size and duct the extractor fan so the room clears properly.
Water across much of Essex is very 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
- Compact sanitaryware: a short-projection, back-to-wall or wall-hung WC and a corner, wall-hung or slim vanity basin
- Lighting wired by a qualified electrician, tested and certified
- Splashback or feature tiling and a new floor, often LVT or porcelain
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.
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.
