- Postcode districts
- WD6
- Nearby
- Barnet, Bushey and Potters Bar
- Guide price
- £1,900–£4,800
- Typical time on site
- 2–4 working days
- Water
- Very hard across most of Hertfordshire
- Survey
- Free, at your home
What does a cloakroom or downstairs WC cost in Borehamwood?
Guide price in Borehamwood: £1,900–£4,800 including VAT, depending on the room and what you choose. We adjust the national guide for East of England, where prices are typically about 6% above the UK average. 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 Borehamwood including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Working in Borehamwood
As well as Borehamwood itself (WD6), we survey in Barnet, Bushey and Potters Bar.
In Borehamwood, as anywhere, the age of the house decides a lot: pipe sizes, floor construction and where the soil stack runs. If the only toilet in your Borehamwood home is upstairs, a cloakroom under the stairs or in the utility can save a lot of trips. For a new cloakroom in Borehamwood, the first thing we look at is where the nearest drain or soil stack runs.
Supplies across most of Hertfordshire are 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
- A concealed cistern frame or WC unit where the space allows
- Lighting wired by a qualified electrician, tested and certified
- 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
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.
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.
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.
