- Postcode districts
- N6, N19, NW5
- Nearby
- Islington, Tottenham and Walthamstow
- Guide price
- £2,200–£5,600
- Typical time on site
- 2–4 working days
- Water
- Very hard across most of Greater London
- Survey
- Free, at your home
What does a cloakroom or downstairs WC cost in Archway?
For Archway, our guide range for a cloakroom or downstairs WC is £2,200 to £5,600 including VAT. We adjust the national guide for London, where prices are typically about 25% 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 Archway including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Working in Archway
As well as Archway itself (N6, N19 and NW5), we survey in Islington, Tottenham and Walthamstow.
In Archway, many bathrooms are in flats or converted houses, so we check lease consents, access and the floor below before we price. We survey cloakrooms in Archway with the headroom in mind as well as the floor area, because under-stair spaces lose height quickly. Where your Archway home already has a WC on gravity drainage, a macerator opens up more places a new cloakroom can go.
Water across much of Greater London 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
- 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
- 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
Decisions to make first
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.
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.
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.
