Cloakrooms & downstairs WCs in Nottinghamshire

What does a cloakroom or downstairs WC cost in Nottinghamshire?

Our guide range in Nottinghamshire is £1,750–£4,300 including VAT. Prices in Nottinghamshire run at about 4% below the UK guide, based on East Midlands labour rates.

Guide prices for Nottinghamshire including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.

Which towns do we cover in Nottinghamshire?

• Nottingham
• Mansfield
• Worksop
• Newark on Trent
• Arnold
• West Bridgford
• Sutton in Ashfield
• Hucknall
• Kirkby in Ashfield
• Retford
• Eastwood
• Mansfield Woodhouse

Water across much of Nottinghamshire 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. If you are refreshing a dated cloakroom in Nottingham, a wall-hung WC and slim vanity can change the room in a few days.

What the job includes

• A new waste connection to the soil stack or drain, or a macerator where the rules allow it
• A survey that checks the headroom under the stairs, the door swing and how the waste will reach the drain
• An extractor fan ducted to outside, wired with an overrun timer or linked to the light
• A concealed cistern frame or WC unit where the space allows
• 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

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.

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.

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.

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

A cloakroom refit does not need planning permission, and forming a new one inside the house rarely does, although a listed building needs listed building consent for internal alterations affecting its character. A macerator or pumped WC is acceptable only where the home also has a WC on gravity drainage. The water fittings rules in each nation limit a new WC to a 6-litre flush.

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.