- Postcode districts
- PO36
- Nearby
- Ryde, Newport and Cowes
- Guide price
- £2,000–£5,000
- Typical time on site
- 2–4 working days
- Water
- Hard across most of the Isle of Wight
- Survey
- Free, dates by arrangement
What does a cloakroom or downstairs WC cost in Sandown?
Our guide price for a cloakroom or downstairs WC in Sandown is £2,000–£5,000 including VAT. Prices in South East England run at about 12% above the national guide, mainly because of labour rates. Travel and delivery to islands and remote areas are priced on your quote. 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 Sandown including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Working in Sandown
We work right across Sandown — PO36 — and in neighbouring Ryde and Newport. Because Sandown is further afield, we arrange survey visits in batches; tell us your timescale and we will confirm a date before you commit to anything.
Sandown gets the same process as anywhere else: a free survey at your home and a written, itemised quote. Where your Sandown 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 Sandown home is upstairs, a cloakroom under the stairs or in the utility can save a lot of trips.
Water across much of the Isle of Wight is 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
- Compact sanitaryware: a short-projection, back-to-wall or wall-hung WC and a corner, wall-hung or slim vanity basin
- A new waste connection to the soil stack or drain, or a macerator where the rules allow it
- A concealed cistern frame or WC unit where the space allows
- Strip-out of the old fittings, waste removal and making good on the hall side
Decisions to make first
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.
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.
