- Postcode districts
- SN14, SN15
- Nearby
- Calne, Melksham and Devizes
- Guide price
- £1,850–£4,600
- Typical time on site
- 2–4 working days
- Water
- Hard across most of Wiltshire
- Survey
- Free, at your home
What does a cloakroom or downstairs WC cost in Chippenham?
Guide price in Chippenham: £1,850–£4,600 including VAT, depending on the room and what you choose. The figure depends on the size of the room, whether anything moves, and the products you pick.
Refit
- Splashback tiling, new floor
Upgrade
- Wall-hung WC with concealed frame
New cloakroom
- New waste or macerator
Guide prices for Chippenham including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Working in Chippenham
We cover every part of Chippenham, including SN14 and SN15, and nearby Calne (5.3 miles) and Melksham (6.1 miles).
Homes in and around Chippenham vary, so we look at the floor, the walls and the water system before we price anything. If you are refreshing a dated cloakroom in Chippenham, a wall-hung WC and slim vanity can change the room in a few days. If the only toilet in your Chippenham home is upstairs, a cloakroom under the stairs or in the utility can save a lot of trips.
Water across much of Wiltshire 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
- Strip-out of the old fittings, waste removal and making good on the hall side
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.
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.
