Cloakrooms & downstairs WCs in Gloucestershire

What does a cloakroom or downstairs WC cost in Gloucestershire?

Our guide range in Gloucestershire is £1,850–£4,600 including VAT.

Guide prices for Gloucestershire including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.

Which towns do we cover in Gloucestershire?

• Gloucester
• Cheltenham
• Stroud
• Kingswood
• Mangotsfield
• Yate
• Tewkesbury
• Cirencester

Most of Gloucestershire 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. Where your Gloucester home already has a WC on gravity drainage, a macerator opens up more places a new cloakroom can go.

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
• 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
• A concealed cistern frame or WC unit where the space allows
• Splashback or feature tiling and a new floor, often LVT or porcelain
• A survey that checks the headroom under the stairs, the door swing and how the waste will reach the drain

Decisions to make first

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.

Macerator or gravity

Gravity drainage is silent and needs no maintenance. A macerator lets a WC go where a pipe could not otherwise fall, provided another WC in the house is on gravity drainage.

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.

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

A cloakroom refit does not need planning permission, and forming a new one inside the house rarely does, although a listed building needs listed building consent for internal alterations affecting its character. A macerator or pumped WC is acceptable only where the home also has a WC on gravity drainage. The water fittings rules in each nation limit a new WC to a 6-litre flush.

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.