What does a small bathroom cost in Lancashire?
Our guide range in Lancashire is £4,200–£8,000 including VAT. Prices in Lancashire run at about 6% below the UK guide, based on North West England labour rates.
Essential
- Short-projection WC and basin
Signature
- Large-format tiles, mirror cabinet
Bespoke
- Wet-room style floor
Guide prices for Lancashire including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Which towns do we cover in Lancashire?
- Preston
- Burnley
- Blackburn
- Blackpool
- Morecambe
- Lancaster
- Lytham St Annes
- Skelmersdale
- Leyland
- Accrington
- Chorley
- Darwen
- Thornton-Cleveleys
- Nelson
- Fleetwood
- Ormskirk
- Rawtenstall
- Colne
- Poulton-le-Fylde
- Heysham
- Haslingden
Most of Lancashire is supplied with soft water. That leaves you free to choose matt black, brushed brass or clear glass without worrying much about limescale. Hardness varies street by street, so check the figure for your postcode with your water supplier. If your Preston bathroom is a box room over the stairs, the first job is finding out where the soil stack lets the WC sit.
What the job includes
- Recessed niches, mirror cabinets and wall-hung vanity units to get storage off the floor
- Boarding, tanking and tiling, with larger tiles where they suit the walls to cut down grout lines
- Lighting, extractor fan and towel rail wired by a qualified electrician, tested and certified
- Space-saving sanitaryware: a short-projection or wall-hung WC and a compact or semi-recessed basin
- A measured survey including the door swing, window position, soil stack and any boxing that could be slimmed down
- Shorter, narrower or shower baths where a full 1700 mm bath does not sit well
Decisions to make first
Keep the bath or go walk-in
A 1500 or 1600 mm bath keeps a bath in a short room. A walk-in shower with a single glass panel opens up the floor and makes the room read as larger.
Door
Re-hanging the door to open outwards, or fitting a sliding door, frees the space behind it. In a very small room this alone can make space for a bigger shower.
WC type
A short-projection close-coupled WC sits closer to the wall than a standard pan. A wall-hung WC on a concealed frame shows the floor beneath it and is easier to clean around.
Storage
Recess shelves into stud walls or boxing, put a mirror cabinet over the basin and use the wall above the WC. Avoid floor-standing units in very tight rooms.
Rules that apply in England
A small bathroom refit in the same room does not need planning permission. The electrical zones matter more in a tight room because the lights and fan end up close to the shower: fittings above the bath or tray up to 2.25 m must be at least IPX4, and any socket other than a shaver supply unit must be at least 3 m from that zone, which in a small bathroom usually rules sockets out. Every circuit needs 30 mA RCD protection under BS 7671.
In England, changes to the wiring in a room with a bath or shower are notifiable under Part P, so use an electrician registered with a competent person scheme. If you replace the extractor fan, do not fit one that extracts less than the old one; Approved Document F gives 15 litres per second for an intermittent bathroom fan.