- Postcode districts
- GU13, GU51, GU52
- Nearby
- Farnborough, Aldershot and Yateley
- 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 Fleet?
In Fleet, a cloakroom or downstairs WC typically costs £2,000–£5,000 including VAT, based on South East England prices. 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
- Splashback tiling, new floor
Upgrade
- Wall-hung WC with concealed frame
New cloakroom
- New waste or macerator
Guide prices for Fleet including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Working in Fleet
We work right across Fleet — GU13, GU51 and GU52 — and in neighbouring Farnborough and Aldershot.
In Fleet, as anywhere, the age of the house decides a lot: pipe sizes, floor construction and where the soil stack runs. We survey cloakrooms in Fleet with the headroom in mind as well as the floor area, because under-stair spaces lose height quickly. If your Fleet cloakroom has no window, we size and duct the extractor fan so the room clears properly.
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
- 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
- Splashback or feature tiling and a new floor, often LVT or porcelain
- 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.
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.
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.
