- Postcode districts
- RG21, RG22, RG23, RG24
- Nearby
- Tadley, Alton and Fleet
- Guide price
- £2,000–£5,000
- Typical time on site
- 2–4 working days
- Water
- Hard across most of Hampshire
- Survey
- Free, at your home
What does a cloakroom or downstairs WC cost in Basingstoke?
Guide price in Basingstoke: £2,000–£5,000 including VAT, depending on the room and what you choose. Labour costs in South East England put local prices at about 12% above the UK guide figure. 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 Basingstoke including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Working in Basingstoke
As well as Basingstoke itself (RG21, RG22, RG23 and 1 more postcode districts), we survey in Tadley, Alton and Fleet.
Basingstoke has a wide mix of house ages, so the survey is where we spot old lead pipework, weak joists or a tight soil stack. We survey cloakrooms in Basingstoke with the headroom in mind as well as the floor area, because under-stair spaces lose height quickly. If the only toilet in your Basingstoke home is upstairs, a cloakroom under the stairs or in the utility can save a lot of trips.
Most of Hampshire 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.
What the job includes
- Lighting wired by a qualified electrician, tested and certified
- Compact sanitaryware: a short-projection, back-to-wall or wall-hung WC and a corner, wall-hung or slim vanity basin
- An extractor fan ducted to outside, wired with an overrun timer or linked to the light
- Strip-out of the old fittings, waste removal and making good on the hall side
Decisions to make first
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.
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.
