- Postcode districts
- SO14, SO15, SO16, SO17, SO18, SO19
- Nearby
- Hythe, Totton and Hedge End
- 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 Southampton?
In Southampton, a cloakroom or downstairs WC typically costs £2,000–£5,000 including VAT, based on South East England prices. We adjust the national guide for South East England, where prices are typically about 12% above the UK average. The figure depends on the size of the room, whether anything moves, and the products you pick.
Refit
- Compact WC and corner or wall basin
Upgrade
- Feature tiles and lighting
New cloakroom
- Formed under the stairs or in a utility
Guide prices for Southampton including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Working in Southampton
In Southampton we cover SO14, SO15, SO16 and 3 more postcode districts; we also cover Hythe, 3 miles away, and Totton.
Southampton is a big place with every kind of home, from terraces to flats to new builds, so we never price from a photo alone. Where your Southampton home already has a WC on gravity drainage, a macerator opens up more places a new cloakroom can go. If your Southampton 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
- Strip-out of the old fittings, waste removal and making good on the hall side
- A survey that checks the headroom under the stairs, the door swing and how the waste will reach the drain
- Lighting wired by a qualified electrician, tested and certified
- Splashback or feature tiling and a new floor, often LVT or porcelain
Decisions to make first
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.
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.
