- Postcode districts
- CT1, CT2, CT5, CT6
- Nearby
- Whitstable, Herne Bay and Faversham
- Guide price
- £2,000–£5,000
- Typical time on site
- 2–4 working days
- Water
- Very hard across most of Kent
- Survey
- Free, at your home
What does a cloakroom or downstairs WC cost in Canterbury?
As a guide, budget £2,000 to £5,000 including VAT for a cloakroom or downstairs WC in Canterbury; your written quote will pin it down. Prices in South East England run at about 12% 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 Canterbury including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Working in Canterbury
In Canterbury we cover CT1, CT2, CT5 and 1 more postcode districts; we also cover Whitstable, 6.1 miles away, and Herne Bay.
Canterbury is a big place with every kind of home, from terraces to flats to new builds, so we never price from a photo alone. If the only toilet in your Canterbury home is upstairs, a cloakroom under the stairs or in the utility can save a lot of trips. Where your Canterbury home already has a WC on gravity drainage, a macerator opens up more places a new cloakroom can go.
Most of Kent has very 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
- 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
- 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
Decisions to make first
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.
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.
