- Postcode districts
- CB10
- Nearby
- Haverhill, Bishops Stortford and Royston
- 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 Saffron Walden?
For Saffron Walden, our guide range for a cloakroom or downstairs WC is £1,900 to £4,800 including VAT. We adjust the national guide for East of England, where prices are typically about 6% above the UK average. 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 Saffron Walden including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Working in Saffron Walden
We work right across Saffron Walden — CB10 — and in neighbouring Haverhill and Bishops Stortford.
Being a smaller town does not change how we work in Saffron Walden: free survey, written quote, one team. Where your Saffron Walden home already has a WC on gravity drainage, a macerator opens up more places a new cloakroom can go. If the only toilet in your Saffron Walden home is upstairs, a cloakroom under the stairs or in the utility can save a lot of trips.
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
- An extractor fan ducted to outside, wired with an overrun timer or linked to the light
- A new waste connection to the soil stack or drain, or a macerator where the rules allow it
- Strip-out of the old fittings, waste removal and making good on the hall side
- Lighting wired by a qualified electrician, tested and certified
Decisions to make first
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.
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.
