Cloakrooms & downstairs WCs in Staffordshire

What does a cloakroom or downstairs WC cost in Staffordshire?

Our guide range in Staffordshire is £1,750–£4,400 including VAT.

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

Which towns do we cover in Staffordshire?

• Stoke-on-Trent
• Newcastle under Lyme
• Burton upon Trent
• Cannock
• Tamworth
• Stafford
• Lichfield
• Kidsgrove
• Burntwood
• Longton
• Rugeley
• Leek
• Great Wyrley
• Biddulph

Water across much of Staffordshire is moderately hard. Taps and wastes will need an occasional descale, and chrome or brushed finishes are easier to keep clean than polished brass. Hardness varies street by street, so check the figure for your postcode with your water supplier. If your Stoke-on-Trent cloakroom has no window, we size and duct the extractor fan so the room clears properly.

What the job includes

• Lighting wired by a qualified electrician, tested and certified
• Strip-out of the old fittings, waste removal and making good on the hall side
• A survey that checks the headroom under the stairs, the door swing and how the waste will reach the drain
• A new waste connection to the soil stack or drain, or a macerator where the rules allow it
• 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

Decisions to make first

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.

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.

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.

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.