- Postcode districts
- TW15, TW16, TW18
- Nearby
- Staines, Feltham and Sunbury-on-Thames
- Guide price
- £2,000–£5,000
- Typical time on site
- 2–4 working days
- Water
- Hard across most of Surrey
- Survey
- Free, at your home
What does a cloakroom or downstairs WC cost in Ashford?
In Ashford, a cloakroom or downstairs WC typically costs £2,000–£5,000 including VAT, based on South East England prices. Prices in South East England run at about 12% above the national guide, mainly because of labour rates. 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 Ashford including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Working in Ashford
In Ashford we cover TW15, TW16 and TW18; we also cover Staines, 2.1 miles away, and Feltham.
Homes in and around Ashford vary, so we look at the floor, the walls and the water system before we price anything. If your Ashford cloakroom has no window, we size and duct the extractor fan so the room clears properly. For a new cloakroom in Ashford, the first thing we look at is where the nearest drain or soil stack runs.
Water across much of Surrey 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 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 new waste connection to the soil stack or drain, or a macerator where the rules allow it
- Lighting wired by a qualified electrician, tested and certified
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.
