- Postcode districts
- PR1, PR2
- Nearby
- Blackburn, Darwen and Poulton-le-Fylde
- Guide price
- £1,700–£4,200
- Typical time on site
- 2–4 working days
- Water
- Soft across most of Lancashire
- Survey
- Free, at your home
What does a cloakroom or downstairs WC cost in Preston?
As a guide, budget £1,700 to £4,200 including VAT for a cloakroom or downstairs WC in Preston; your written quote will pin it down. Prices in North West England run at about 6% below 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 Preston including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Working in Preston
We cover every part of Preston, including PR1 and PR2, and nearby Blackburn (9.1 miles) and Darwen (10.8 miles).
Preston 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 your Preston cloakroom has no window, we size and duct the extractor fan so the room clears properly. Where your Preston home already has a WC on gravity drainage, a macerator opens up more places a new cloakroom can go.
Supplies across most of Lancashire are soft. In soft water, taps, wastes and toilet pans scale up slowly, so brushed and matt finishes are a safe choice. 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
- Lighting wired by a qualified electrician, tested and certified
- An extractor fan ducted to outside, wired with an overrun timer or linked to the light
- Splashback or feature tiling and a new floor, often LVT or porcelain
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.
Basin
A corner basin fits the tightest rooms. A slim vanity basin with a cupboard underneath gives somewhere to keep spare toilet rolls and soap, and hides the trap.
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.
