- Postcode districts
- M17, M32, M41
- Nearby
- Stretford, Sale and Eccles
- Guide price
- £6,100–£12,250
- Typical time on site
- 6–12 working days
- Water
- Soft across most of Greater Manchester
- Survey
- Free, at your home
What does a loft bathroom cost in Urmston?
As a guide, budget £6,100 to £12,250 including VAT for a loft bathroom in Urmston; your written quote will pin it down. Labour costs in North West England put local prices at about 6% below the UK guide figure. The figure depends on the size of the room, whether anything moves, and the products you pick.
Refit
- Shower, basin and WC replaced
Signature
- Pump or macerator where needed
New loft bathroom
- Formed in an existing loft room
Guide prices for Urmston including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Working in Urmston
As well as Urmston itself (M17, M32 and M41), we survey in Stretford, Sale and Eccles.
In Urmston, as anywhere, the age of the house decides a lot: pipe sizes, floor construction and where the soil stack runs. If your Urmston house has a combi boiler, a loft shower can usually run on mains pressure without a pump. If your Urmston loft shower is weak or the waste drains slowly, the fix is often in the pump or the pipe fall rather than the shower itself.
Most of Greater Manchester is supplied with soft water. If that holds for your street in Urmston, limescale on shower glass and heads builds up slowly and a squeegee after use is usually enough. Hardness varies street by street, so check the figure for your postcode with your water supplier.
What the job includes
- An extractor fan ducted through the roof or a gable wall, with the duct insulated through cold spaces
- A drainage route from the loft to the soil stack with enough fall, or a pumped waste or macerator where the rules allow it
- A survey of the headroom across the room, with the usable height marked at each fitting position
- Fitted furniture made to the eaves, so the low space behind the slope becomes storage
Decisions to make first
Eaves storage
Low cupboards built into the slope behind the WC or basin take clutter out of the room and hide the pipework.
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.
