- Postcode districts
- CO1, CO2, CO3, CO4
- Nearby
- Sudbury, Clacton-on-Sea and Witham
- Guide price
- £6,900–£13,750
- Typical time on site
- 6–12 working days
- Water
- Very hard across most of Essex
- Survey
- Free, at your home
What does a loft bathroom cost in Colchester?
As a guide, budget £6,900 to £13,750 including VAT for a loft bathroom in Colchester; your written quote will pin it down. We adjust the national guide for East of England, where prices are typically about 6% above the UK average. The figure depends on the size of the room, whether anything moves, and the products you pick.
Refit
- Tiling, lighting, extractor fan
Signature
- Walk-in shower under the ridge
New loft bathroom
- New drainage route and water supply
Guide prices for Colchester including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Working in Colchester
In Colchester we cover CO1, CO2, CO3 and 1 more postcode districts; we also cover Sudbury, 12.7 miles away, and Clacton-on-Sea.
Colchester is a big place with every kind of home, from terraces to flats to new builds, so we never price from a photo alone. For a loft bathroom in a tank-fed Colchester home, we work out how the shower will get its pressure before choosing a single fitting. If your Colchester loft conversion has a bedroom but no bathroom, the survey starts with where the soil stack runs and how much headroom you have.
Supplies across most of Essex are very hard. If your supply in Colchester is the same, limescale on shower glass and heads is a real issue: easy-clean glass, rub-clean nozzles and a squeegee make a big difference. Hardness varies street by street, so check the figure for your postcode with your water supplier.
What the job includes
- A survey of the headroom across the room, with the usable height marked at each fitting position
- A shower pump on a gravity system, an electric shower, or advice on moving to mains pressure, depending on your system
- A check of your hot-water system and of the pressure and flow you actually get at loft level
- An extractor fan ducted through the roof or a gable wall, with the duct insulated through cold spaces
Decisions to make first
Bath or no bath
A bath under the slope makes good use of low space, but the floor has to carry it when it is full of water and someone is in it.
Getting the water pressure
A pumped shower suits a gravity system with a cold tank; an electric shower heats cold mains water at the point of use; a combi or unvented cylinder gives mains pressure throughout.
Rules that apply in England
In England, new drainage and a new connection to the soil stack fall under Part H, a new bathroom needs extract of 15 litres per second intermittent or 8 litres per second continuous under Approved Document F, and new circuits are notifiable under Part P. If the work includes an unvented hot-water cylinder, it must be fitted by a G3-qualified installer.
