- Postcode districts
- HA6, WD3, WD18
- Nearby
- Watford, Chalfont St Peter and North Watford
- 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 Rickmansworth?
Guide price in Rickmansworth: £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 Rickmansworth including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Working in Rickmansworth
We cover every part of Rickmansworth, including HA6, WD3 and WD18, and nearby Watford (3.7 miles) and Chalfont St Peter (4 miles).
Homes in and around Rickmansworth vary, so we look at the floor, the walls and the water system before we price anything. Where your Rickmansworth home already has a WC on gravity drainage, a macerator opens up more places a new cloakroom can go. If the only toilet in your Rickmansworth home is upstairs, a cloakroom under the stairs or in the utility can save a lot of trips.
Water across much of Hertfordshire is 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
- Splashback or feature tiling and a new floor, often LVT or porcelain
- A new waste connection to the soil stack or drain, or a macerator where the rules allow it
- Compact sanitaryware: a short-projection, back-to-wall or wall-hung WC and a corner, wall-hung or slim vanity basin
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.
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.
