- Postcode districts
- ME1, ME4, ME5
- Nearby
- Chatham, Strood and Gillingham
- 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 Rochester?
As a guide, budget £2,000 to £5,000 including VAT for a cloakroom or downstairs WC in Rochester; 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 Rochester including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Working in Rochester
We cover every part of Rochester, including ME1, ME4 and ME5, and nearby Chatham (1.1 miles) and Strood (1.3 miles).
In Rochester, as anywhere, the age of the house decides a lot: pipe sizes, floor construction and where the soil stack runs. If your Rochester cloakroom has no window, we size and duct the extractor fan so the room clears properly. Where your Rochester 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
- Lighting wired by a qualified electrician, tested and certified
- Splashback or feature tiling and a new floor, often LVT or porcelain
- An extractor fan ducted to outside, wired with an overrun timer or linked to the light
- Strip-out of the old fittings, waste removal and making good on the hall side
Decisions to make first
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.
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.
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.
