- Postcode districts
- BR8
- Nearby
- Bexley, Dartford and Welling
- 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 Swanley?
In Swanley, a cloakroom or downstairs WC typically costs £2,000–£5,000 including VAT, based on South East England prices. Labour costs in South East England put local prices at about 12% above the UK guide figure. 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 Swanley including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Working in Swanley
In Swanley we cover BR8; we also cover Bexley, 3.2 miles away, and Dartford.
Being a smaller town does not change how we work in Swanley: free survey, written quote, one team. For a new cloakroom in Swanley, the first thing we look at is where the nearest drain or soil stack runs. If you are refreshing a dated cloakroom in Swanley, a wall-hung WC and slim vanity can change the room in a few days.
Supplies across most of Kent are 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
- 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
- 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
Decisions to make first
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.
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.
