- Postcode districts
- WA9, WA10, WA11, WA12
- Nearby
- Prescot, Ashton in Makerfield and Huyton
- Guide price
- £1,700–£4,200
- Typical time on site
- 2–4 working days
- Water
- Soft across most of Merseyside
- Survey
- Free, at your home
What does a cloakroom or downstairs WC cost in St Helens?
For St Helens, our guide range for a cloakroom or downstairs WC is £1,700 to £4,200 including VAT. We adjust the national guide for North West England, where prices are typically about 6% below the UK average. 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 St Helens including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Working in St Helens
In St Helens we cover WA9, WA10, WA11 and 1 more postcode districts; we also cover Prescot, 3.1 miles away, and Ashton in Makerfield.
Across a large town like St Helens, homes range from older terraces to newer estates; the survey tells us which pipework and floor we are dealing with. If the only toilet in your St Helens home is upstairs, a cloakroom under the stairs or in the utility can save a lot of trips. If you are refreshing a dated cloakroom in St Helens, a wall-hung WC and slim vanity can change the room in a few days.
Supplies across most of Merseyside 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
- Splashback or feature tiling and a new floor, often LVT or porcelain
- Compact sanitaryware: a short-projection, back-to-wall or wall-hung WC and a corner, wall-hung or slim vanity basin
- Lighting wired by a qualified electrician, tested and certified
- A survey that checks the headroom under the stairs, the door swing and how the waste will reach the drain
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.
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.
