Cloakrooms & Downstairs Toilets
In The Tightest Spaces.

We do not publish a single cloakroom price, because the cost follows the room rather than the label on the door. As a guide, a compact bathroom or cloakroom starts around £3,800 fitted. What moves the figure is how far the waste has to travel, whether a macerator is needed, how much wall has to be built or boarded, the suite you pick and the floor finish. Our guides to what a small bathroom costs in Glasgow and what a full bathroom costs show where those figures come from. The designer prices your own room on the visit and it costs you nothing.

Less than most people expect, but two measurements decide it. The first is the clear room in front of the pan, so you can sit down and stand up without catching a knee on the door. The second is the headroom where you actually stand, which is the one that bites under a staircase. A wall-hung pan and a slimline basin buy back useful inches, and a door that opens outwards or slides can rescue a room that looked too tight. The designer measures it on the visit and will tell you straight if it will not work.

Usually yes. Where there is no gravity fall to the soil stack, a macerator sits behind the WC, grinds the waste and pumps it along a small-bore pipe to the stack. It needs a socket of its own and a route that can still be reached if it ever needs looking at. Where a gravity run is possible we will take it every time, because there is nothing to service and nothing to hear.

It needs ventilation. Most downstairs loos carved out of a hall or a cupboard have no window at all, so an extractor fan ducted to the outside air does the job, wired to run on for a spell after the light goes off. Skip it and the room smells, the mirror streams and the damp ends up in the plaster.

It depends on the work. Putting a WC where there has never been one, forming a new connection to the drain or cutting into the structure can bring building standards into it, while swapping a suite that is already there usually does not. It is applied locally, so check with your own council's Building Standards team before anything starts. We will tell you what we think applies to your job and point you at the right department.

A cloakroom is a much smaller room than a bathroom, so it is normally quicker than the 3 to 6 days a full bathroom takes. How much quicker depends on whether a wall is being built, whether the drainage is being moved and how the floor is finished. You will know the plan for your room before anyone lifts a tool.

Yes. Finance is available from £22 a week, subject to status, and the first eligibility check is a soft search that leaves no mark on your credit score. Various deposit options are available. Ultimate Home Solutions is authorised by the FCA as a credit broker, not a lender.