- Postcode districts
- ME7, ME8
- Nearby
- Chatham, Rochester and Strood
- 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 Gillingham?
Guide price in Gillingham: £2,000–£5,000 including VAT, depending on the room and what you choose. 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
- Compact WC and corner or wall basin
Upgrade
- Feature tiles and lighting
New cloakroom
- Formed under the stairs or in a utility
Guide prices for Gillingham including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Working in Gillingham
In Gillingham we cover ME7 and ME8; we also cover Chatham, 1.1 miles away, and Rochester.
Across a large town like Gillingham, homes range from older terraces to newer estates; the survey tells us which pipework and floor we are dealing with. We survey cloakrooms in Gillingham with the headroom in mind as well as the floor area, because under-stair spaces lose height quickly. If your Gillingham cloakroom has no window, we size and duct the extractor fan so the room clears properly.
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
- Strip-out of the old fittings, waste removal and making good on the hall side
- A concealed cistern frame or WC unit where the space allows
- Lighting wired by a qualified electrician, tested and certified
- A new waste connection to the soil stack or drain, or a macerator where the rules allow it
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.
