- Postcode districts
- LE2, LE8, LE18
- Nearby
- Oadby, Leicester and Earl Shilton
- Guide price
- £1,750–£4,300
- Typical time on site
- 2–4 working days
- Water
- Hard across most of Leicestershire
- Survey
- Free, at your home
What does a cloakroom or downstairs WC cost in Wigston Magna?
Guide price in Wigston Magna: £1,750–£4,300 including VAT, depending on the room and what you choose. Labour costs in East Midlands put local prices at about 4% below 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 Wigston Magna including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Working in Wigston Magna
We work right across Wigston Magna — LE2, LE8 and LE18 — and in neighbouring Oadby and Leicester.
In Wigston Magna, as anywhere, the age of the house decides a lot: pipe sizes, floor construction and where the soil stack runs. For a new cloakroom in Wigston Magna, the first thing we look at is where the nearest drain or soil stack runs. Where your Wigston Magna home already has a WC on gravity drainage, a macerator opens up more places a new cloakroom can go.
Water across much of Leicestershire is 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
- An extractor fan ducted to outside, wired with an overrun timer or linked to the light
- A new waste connection to the soil stack or drain, or a macerator where the rules allow it
- 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
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.
WC style
A wall-hung WC on a frame gives the most floor space and looks neat. A back-to-wall pan in a short furniture unit is easier to fit against an uneven wall.
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.
