- Postcode districts
- OX1, OX2, OX3, OX4
- Nearby
- Aylesbury, High Wycombe and Reading
- 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 Oxford?
In Oxford, a cloakroom or downstairs WC typically costs £2,000–£5,000 including VAT, based on South East England prices. We adjust the national guide for South East England, where prices are typically about 12% above 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 Oxford including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Working in Oxford
As well as Oxford itself (OX1, OX2, OX3 and 1 more postcode districts), we survey in Aylesbury, High Wycombe and Reading.
Oxford 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 you are refreshing a dated cloakroom in Oxford, a wall-hung WC and slim vanity can change the room in a few days. For a new cloakroom in Oxford, the first thing we look at is where the nearest drain or soil stack runs.
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
- Compact sanitaryware: a short-projection, back-to-wall or wall-hung WC and a corner, wall-hung or slim vanity basin
- Splashback or feature tiling and a new floor, often LVT or porcelain
- Strip-out of the old fittings, waste removal and making good on the hall side
- An extractor fan ducted to outside, wired with an overrun timer or linked to the light
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.
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.
