- Postcode districts
- AL9, AL10
- Nearby
- Welwyn Garden City, St Albans 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 Hatfield?
Guide price in Hatfield: £1,900–£4,800 including VAT, depending on the room and what you choose. Prices in East of England run at about 6% above the national guide, mainly because of labour rates. 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 Hatfield including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Working in Hatfield
As well as Hatfield itself (AL9 and AL10), we survey in Welwyn Garden City, St Albans and Potters Bar.
In Hatfield, as anywhere, the age of the house decides a lot: pipe sizes, floor construction and where the soil stack runs. If your Hatfield cloakroom has no window, we size and duct the extractor fan so the room clears properly. If the only toilet in your Hatfield home is upstairs, a cloakroom under the stairs or in the utility can save a lot of trips.
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
- Strip-out of the old fittings, waste removal and making good on the hall side
- An extractor fan ducted to outside, wired with an overrun timer or linked to the light
- Compact sanitaryware: a short-projection, back-to-wall or wall-hung WC and a corner, wall-hung or slim vanity basin
- Splashback or feature tiling and a new floor, often LVT or porcelain
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.
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.
