- Postcode districts
- NE11, NE16, NE21
- Nearby
- Blaydon-on-Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead
- 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 Whickham?
As a guide, budget £1,600 to £4,000 including VAT for a cloakroom or downstairs WC in Whickham; your written quote will pin it down. We adjust the national guide for North East England, where prices are typically about 10% below the UK average. The figure depends on the size of the room, whether anything moves, and the products you pick.
Refit
- Existing downstairs WC
Upgrade
- Vanity basin with storage
New cloakroom
- Extractor fan to regulations
Guide prices for Whickham including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Working in Whickham
In Whickham we cover NE11, NE16 and NE21; we also cover Blaydon-on-Tyne, 2 miles away, and Newcastle upon Tyne.
Whickham gets the same process as anywhere else: a free survey at your home and a written, itemised quote. If your Whickham cloakroom has no window, we size and duct the extractor fan so the room clears properly. Where your Whickham home already has a WC on gravity drainage, a macerator opens up more places a new cloakroom can go.
Water across much of Tyne and Wear is 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
- A concealed cistern frame or WC unit where the space allows
- A survey that checks the headroom under the stairs, the door swing and how the waste will reach the drain
- Lighting wired by a qualified electrician, tested and certified
- 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
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.
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.
