- Postcode districts
- OX1, OX3, OX4
- Nearby
- Oxford, Abingdon and Didcot
- Guide price
- £2,000–£5,000
- Typical time on site
- 2–4 working days
- Water
- Hard across most of Oxfordshire
- Survey
- Free, at your home
What does a cloakroom or downstairs WC cost in Cowley?
For Cowley, 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 Cowley including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Working in Cowley
As well as Cowley itself (OX1, OX3 and OX4), we survey in Oxford, Abingdon and Didcot.
Cowley gets the same process as anywhere else: a free survey at your home and a written, itemised quote. We survey cloakrooms in Cowley with the headroom in mind as well as the floor area, because under-stair spaces lose height quickly. Where your Cowley home already has a WC on gravity drainage, a macerator opens up more places a new cloakroom can go.
Supplies across most of Oxfordshire are 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
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.
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.
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.
