- Postcode districts
- TA1
- Nearby
- Bridgwater, Burnham-on-Sea and Tiverton
- Guide price
- £1,850–£4,600
- Typical time on site
- 2–4 working days
- Water
- Hard across most of Somerset
- Survey
- Free, at your home
What does a cloakroom or downstairs WC cost in Taunton?
For Taunton, our guide range for a cloakroom or downstairs WC is £1,850 to £4,600 including VAT. 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 Taunton including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Working in Taunton
We work right across Taunton — TA1 — and in neighbouring Bridgwater and Burnham-on-Sea.
Homes in and around Taunton vary, so we look at the floor, the walls and the water system before we price anything. If the only toilet in your Taunton home is upstairs, a cloakroom under the stairs or in the utility can save a lot of trips. Where your Taunton home already has a WC on gravity drainage, a macerator opens up more places a new cloakroom can go.
Water across much of Somerset 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
- A concealed cistern frame or WC unit where the space allows
- Splashback or feature tiling and a new floor, often LVT or porcelain
- A survey that checks the headroom under the stairs, the door swing and how the waste will reach the drain
- Compact sanitaryware: a short-projection, back-to-wall or wall-hung WC and a corner, wall-hung or slim vanity basin
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.
