- Postcode districts
- NE2, NE3, NE7
- Nearby
- Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead and Wallsend
- Guide price
- £1,600–£4,000
- Typical time on site
- 2–4 working days
- Water
- Soft across most of Tyne and Wear
- Survey
- Free, at your home
What does a cloakroom or downstairs WC cost in Gosforth?
As a guide, budget £1,600 to £4,000 including VAT for a cloakroom or downstairs WC in Gosforth; your written quote will pin it down. Prices in North East England run at about 10% below 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 Gosforth including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Working in Gosforth
We work right across Gosforth — NE2, NE3 and NE7 — and in neighbouring Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead.
Being a smaller town does not change how we work in Gosforth: free survey, written quote, one team. If your Gosforth cloakroom has no window, we size and duct the extractor fan so the room clears properly. Where your Gosforth home already has a WC on gravity drainage, a macerator opens up more places a new cloakroom can go.
Supplies across most of Tyne and Wear are soft. In soft water, taps, wastes and toilet pans scale up slowly, so brushed and matt finishes are a safe choice. 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 survey that checks the headroom under the stairs, the door swing and how the waste will reach the drain
- A concealed cistern frame or WC unit where the space allows
- Lighting wired by a qualified electrician, tested and certified
Decisions to make first
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.
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.
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.
