Greenwich · SE18 · Bath and shower screen fitting
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Plumstead fitters · Fixed written pricesBath and shower screen fitting for Plumstead (SE18) households — 9,964 of them, 33% in flats. From £110 fixed, one fitter for a pivot or fixed screen; two for sliding and bi-fold enclosures and any wet-room panel over 190cm, which is awkward to hold plumb alone Insured fitters, CE-marked toughened glass and every seal tooled clean.
Overview
This page prices bath and shower screen fitting for Plumstead SE18 specifically: mainly Victorian stock, 32% privately rented and 9,964 households in total. Work starts at £110, fixed in writing, with parking and Royal Borough of Greenwich permit rules costed before an insured fitter travels.
How it works
Step 1
Bath, tray or wet-room floor measured, and how far out of level it is checked before ordering, so packers and shims are ready on the day.
Step 2
Positions marked, then pilot-drilled slowly into the glaze with a masonry bit rated for porcelain, which is the step that stops tiles cracking.
Step 3
Hinges, tracks or channels fixed and packed so the screen itself reads level even when the bath edge does not.
Step 4
Neutral-cure silicone run to the tile and the bath or tray, tooled to a clean bead and left to cure before use.
Step 5
Door or panel run through its full movement, checked for drips at the seal, and off-cuts and packaging removed.
Why choose us
We expect some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, over solid London stock brick — a median age of 36 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here in SE18, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is in SE18, fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body — with 27% social-rented stock locally, block access is agreed with the estate office first.
Fitters carry £5m public liability cover, and every screen fitted is CE-marked toughened safety glass to BS EN 12150 — the standard that means it crumbles into small granules rather than shards if it ever fails.
One fitter for a pivot or fixed screen; two for sliding and bi-fold enclosures and any wet-room panel over 190cm, which is awkward to hold plumb alone. Very steep hills, narrow terraced streets and permit bays near the station.
Most bookings are within a week, sooner for a re-seal call where damp has already started to show. Plumstead (Elizabeth line) is the nearest station, so a SE18 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
Fixed prices
| Job | From | Typical time | What sets the price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pivot screen on a bath | £110 | 1–1.5 hrs | The hinge post is packed and shimmed to a bath edge that is rarely dead level, then silicone-sealed to the tile. |
| Fixed bath screen with return panel | £150 | 1.5–2 hrs | Two panels and a bracing bar have to be squared to each other before either is sealed, or the return panel gapes. |
| Sliding shower door on a tray | £190 | 2–3 hrs | The track is fixed to the wall tiles and the tray upstand, both drilled without cracking porcelain, then the rollers are set to run true. |
| Bi-fold shower door, enclosure | £220 | 2.5–3.5 hrs | Two hinged leaves fold flush without fouling the tray lip, which takes more adjustment than a single sliding panel. |
| Wet-room glass panel, floor-fixed | £240 | 3–4 hrs | No frame to hide behind: the channel and the panel both have to be perfectly plumb against a screeded fall. |
| Re-silicone an existing screen or bath edge | £65 | 45–75 min | Old silicone is cut out, the substrate dried and re-sealed — the single most common reason a bathroom starts to smell of damp. |
Pivot screen on a bath
£110 · 1–1.5 hrs
The hinge post is packed and shimmed to a bath edge that is rarely dead level, then silicone-sealed to the tile.
Fixed bath screen with return panel
£150 · 1.5–2 hrs
Two panels and a bracing bar have to be squared to each other before either is sealed, or the return panel gapes.
Sliding shower door on a tray
£190 · 2–3 hrs
The track is fixed to the wall tiles and the tray upstand, both drilled without cracking porcelain, then the rollers are set to run true.
Bi-fold shower door, enclosure
£220 · 2.5–3.5 hrs
Two hinged leaves fold flush without fouling the tray lip, which takes more adjustment than a single sliding panel.
Wet-room glass panel, floor-fixed
£240 · 3–4 hrs
No frame to hide behind: the channel and the panel both have to be perfectly plumb against a screeded fall.
Re-silicone an existing screen or bath edge
£65 · 45–75 min
Old silicone is cut out, the substrate dried and re-sealed — the single most common reason a bathroom starts to smell of damp.
Prices are fitting labour with sealant and standard fixings included; the screen or door itself is supplied by you or ordered at cost. Every screen fitted is CE-marked toughened safety glass to BS EN 12150. Tanking or waterproofing repairs behind existing tiles are quoted separately once uncovered. Permits, ULEZ and the Congestion Charge where they apply are itemised.
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Working in Plumstead
Walk Plumstead from Plumstead Common outwards and the mainly Victorian pattern is obvious: 33% of the 9,964 households in SE18 live in flats, 67% in houses.
Private renting sits at 32% and owner-occupation at 41%; the first group books bath and shower screen fitting at short notice, the second plans it.
Plumstead substrates run to some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, over solid London stock brick — a median age of 36 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because in SE18, fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body — with 27% social-rented stock locally, block access is agreed with the estate office first is the mistake that costs a SE18 customer twice.
Two streets can behave very differently in Plumstead: terraced streets climbing steeply from the high street to the common. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Plumstead is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, very steep hills, narrow terraced streets and permit bays near the station — one reason one fitter for a pivot or fixed screen; two for sliding and bi-fold enclosures and any wet-room panel over 190cm, which is awkward to hold plumb alone. Fitters travelling in use Plumstead (Elizabeth line).
Area at a glance
Who lives in Plumstead and what they live in decides how bath and shower screen fitting is quoted and how long a visit takes. These are the published Census 2021 figures for the Plumstead Common & Riverside and Plumstead High Street and Plumstead South neighbourhood itself — not Greenwich-wide averages, and not estimates.
28,010
Residents
Plumstead Common & Riverside and Plumstead High Street and Plumstead South neighbourhood, Census 2021
9,964
Households
Median age 35.6
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
27.2%
Privately rented
32%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhoods Plumstead Common & Riverside, Plumstead High Street, Plumstead South (E02000318, E02000319, E02000329) — the published geography that covers Plumstead, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the SE18 district: 51.4845, 0.0723 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Pivot screen on a bath starts at £110 in Plumstead on the streets near Plumstead Common, with 33% of homes here being flats, and every job is quoted as a fixed written price before a fitter is booked. Screen type and how far out of level the bath, tray or floor sits on SE18 jobs. A packed-and-shimmed pivot screen is quick; a floor-fixed wet-room panel with no frame to hide the gap takes the longest to get plumb on the Plumstead rounds, with 27% one-person households here.
Yes — a pivot screen is £110. Cast-iron and reglazed baths in Plumstead's older stock are rarely level along the rim on this side of Greenwich — and 32% of SE18 homes being privately rented, with this being a short walk from Plumstead (Elizabeth line), so the hinge post is packed and shimmed until the screen itself reads plumb. The problem we fix most here is in SE18, fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body — with 27% social-rented stock locally, block access is agreed with the estate office first on SE18 jobs, with 41% owner-occupation locally — and 27% social-rented stock nearby.
Yes, with a slow pilot hole and a bit rated for porcelain rather than standard masonry on the streets near Plumstead Common, with 67% of Plumstead homes being houses. Cracked glaze is the most common DIY mistake we're called to fix in Plumstead bathrooms for Plumstead (SE18) addresses.
Yes, from £65. With 33% of Plumstead homes being flats, poor bathroom ventilation is common; we strip the old silicone fully, dry the substrate and reseal with neutral-cure sealant so it doesn't come back within a season on SE18 jobs, with 27% one-person households here.
Most bookings are within a week, sooner for a re-seal call where damp has already started to show on this side of Greenwich, with Plumstead Common a few streets away. Plumstead sits close to Plumstead (Elizabeth line), with 67% of Plumstead homes being houses, so we can usually add a SE18 job to an existing Greenwich round at short notice across SE18.
Very steep hills, narrow terraced streets and permit bays near the station in this 33% flats neighbourhood. Where a permit or a suspended bay is needed in Royal Borough of Greenwich it is itemised on the quote before the visit, never added afterwards on Greenwich bookings — and this being a short walk from Plumstead (Elizabeth line), with 9,964 households on this patch.
Fitters carry £5m public liability cover, with 27% social-rented stock nearby, and every screen fitted is CE-marked toughened safety glass to BS EN 12150 — the standard that means it crumbles into small granules rather than shards if it ever fails on the streets near Plumstead Common — and 27% one-person households here. That paperwork is what most Greenwich letting agents and managing agents ask for before work starts in a leasehold flat for Plumstead (SE18) addresses, with 41% owner-occupation locally.
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