- Postcode districts
- TN9, TN10, TN11
- Nearby
- Tunbridge Wells, Sevenoaks and Crowborough
- 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 Tonbridge?
For Tonbridge, our guide range for a cloakroom or downstairs WC is £2,000 to £5,000 including VAT. 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
- 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 Tonbridge including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Working in Tonbridge
In Tonbridge we cover TN9, TN10 and TN11; we also cover Tunbridge Wells, 4.3 miles away, and Sevenoaks.
In Tonbridge, as anywhere, the age of the house decides a lot: pipe sizes, floor construction and where the soil stack runs. If your Tonbridge cloakroom has no window, we size and duct the extractor fan so the room clears properly. Where your Tonbridge home already has a WC on gravity drainage, a macerator opens up more places a new cloakroom can go.
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
- Splashback or feature tiling and a new floor, often LVT or porcelain
- Lighting wired by a qualified electrician, tested and certified
- A concealed cistern frame or WC unit where the space allows
- A new waste connection to the soil stack or drain, or a macerator where the rules allow it
Decisions to make first
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.
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.
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.
