- Postcode districts
- PO19
- Nearby
- Bognor Regis, Emsworth and Hayling Island
- Guide price
- £2,000–£5,000
- Typical time on site
- 2–4 working days
- Water
- Hard across most of West Sussex
- Survey
- Free, at your home
What does a cloakroom or downstairs WC cost in Chichester?
For Chichester, our guide range for a cloakroom or downstairs WC is £2,000 to £5,000 including VAT. 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
- Existing downstairs WC
Upgrade
- Vanity basin with storage
New cloakroom
- Extractor fan to regulations
Guide prices for Chichester including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Working in Chichester
As well as Chichester itself (PO19), we survey in Bognor Regis, Emsworth and Hayling Island.
Homes in and around Chichester vary, so we look at the floor, the walls and the water system before we price anything. If the only toilet in your Chichester home is upstairs, a cloakroom under the stairs or in the utility can save a lot of trips. Where your Chichester home already has a WC on gravity drainage, a macerator opens up more places a new cloakroom can go.
Supplies across most of West Sussex are 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
- Splashback or feature tiling and a new floor, often LVT or porcelain
- A new waste connection to the soil stack or drain, or a macerator where the rules allow it
- Strip-out of the old fittings, waste removal and making good on the hall side
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.
