Can you fit a shower screen on an old cast-iron bath in Old Street EC1V?

Yes — a pivot screen is £110. Cast-iron and reglazed baths in Old Street's older stock are rarely level along the rim — and 52% social-rented stock nearby, with 98% of homes here being flats, so the hinge post is packed and shimmed until the screen itself reads plumb. The problem we fix most here is drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it on these streets — the pattern behind 4,949 households inside the EC1V neighbourhood on this side of Islington — and this being a short walk from Old Street (Northern, Great Northern), with 52% social-rented stock nearby.

Do you drill into tiles in EC1V without cracking them?

Yes, with a slow pilot hole and a bit rated for porcelain rather than standard masonry around Old Street (Northern, Great Northern), with 39% one-person households here. Cracked glaze is the most common DIY mistake we're called to fix in Old Street bathrooms in this 98% flats neighbourhood, with 4,949 households on this patch.

I have mould around my old shower screen in Old Street — can you just reseal it?

Yes, from £65. With 98% of Old Street 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 in this 98% flats neighbourhood — and 52% social-rented stock nearby, with this being London Borough of Islington territory.

Is same-day or evening bath and shower screen fitting available in Islington?

Most bookings are within a week, sooner for a re-seal call where damp has already started to show on Islington bookings, with Islington parking rules in play. Old Street sits close to Old Street (Northern, Great Northern) in this 98% flats neighbourhood, with 39% one-person households here — and Old Street roundabout and Bunhill Fields burial ground a few streets away, so we can usually add a EC1V job to an existing Islington round at short notice.

Do you handle difficult access in Old Street?

Red-route roundabout with no kerbside loading, goods-lift booking in the towers and gated estate yards on EC1V jobs. Where a permit or a suspended bay is needed in London Borough of Islington it is itemised on the quote before the visit, never added afterwards around Old Street (Northern, Great Northern), with 19% owner-occupation locally — and 52% social-rented stock nearby.

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Professional Bath and shower screen fitting in Old Street, EC1V

Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Old Street fitters · Fixed written pricesOld Street EC1V is a regular stop on our Islington round. The roundabout, tech offices and warehouse conversions on the City fringe, so bath and shower screen fitting here is quoted on the street the job is on — from £110, in writing, with insured fitters, CE-marked toughened glass and every seal tooled clean.

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Bath and shower screen fitting in Old Street EC1V from £110, fixed in writing
Most booked here: bath and shower screens
Most bookings are within a week, sooner for a re-seal call where damp has already started to show.
London Borough of Islington permits, ULEZ and the Congestion Charge itemised, never hidden

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Bath and shower screen fitting in Old Street EC1V, Islington — photographed on a Hello Services job.

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From, pivot screen on a bath: £110From, pivot screen on a bath
Old Street homes are flats: 98%Old Street homes are flats
Privately rented: 28%Privately rented
Households in Old Street: 4,949Households in Old Street

Overview

Bath and shower screen fitting in Old Street EC1V, explained

Bath and shower screen fitting in Old Street EC1V is a fixed-price visit for social-housing-led homes in Islington, most of them post-war. 4,949 households sit inside this EC1V patch, 98% of them flats, so we quote on access near Old Street roundabout and Bunhill Fields burial ground rather than a London average.

How it works

How bath and shower screen fitting works in Old Street

Five steps, the same on every EC1V job, so you know what happens before you commit. Council and housing-association blocks built from precast concrete and dense block, as the Old Street stock goes, where 19% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year is what we plan for here.

Step 1
Measure and level-check
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
Mark and pilot-drill tile
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
Fix and pack level
Hinges, tracks or channels fixed and packed so the screen itself reads level even when the bath edge does not.
Step 4
Seal
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
Test and clear
Door or panel run through its full movement, checked for drips at the seal, and off-cuts and packaging removed.

Why choose us

Why Old Street customers book us

Four things decide whether a EC1V job goes well, and none of them are visible from a price list.

Old Street walls, not generic walls

We expect precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in Old Street, often with surface conduit — which is what a 98% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Old Street actually produces in EC1V, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it on these streets — the pattern behind 4,949 households inside the EC1V neighbourhood.

Insured and documented

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.

Crew sized to the job

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. Red-route roundabout with no kerbside loading, goods-lift booking in the towers and gated estate yards.

Booked around your day

Most bookings are within a week, sooner for a re-seal call where damp has already started to show. Old Street (Northern, Great Northern) is the nearest station, so a EC1V visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.

Fixed prices

Bath and shower screen fitting prices in Old Street

Fixed prices for EC1V and the rest of Islington. Screen type and how far out of level the bath, tray or floor sits. 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.

Bath and shower screen fitting price guide for Old Street EC1V
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.

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.

Scope

What's included in Old Street

The same scope across EC1V, whether the job is a single item or a full room.

Included in the price

On EC1V jobs: drilling set for porcelain and ceramic tile with a pilot to stop the bit skating off the glaze, agreed on the doorstep in Old Street before anything is unpacked
In Old Street: screen or door packed and shimmed level even where the bath or tray is not, timed against the walk in from Old Street (Northern, Great Northern)
Neutral-cure silicone sealant used against tile and enamel, which will not corrode chrome fittings, checked on every EC1V visit
Standard on Islington bookings: old sealant fully removed and the substrate dried before resealing, with 4,949 households in this neighbourhood, it is the question we are asked most

Not included

Replacing cracked or chipped bath enamel, tile or tray, which is quoted as a separate repair, outside the fixed price on Old Street bookings
Tanking or waterproof membrane repair behind tiles found to be leaking, quoted separately if you need it arranged in EC1V
Cutting or reglazing toughened glass on site — a damaged panel is replaced, not cut down, which we refer on to the right trade in Old Street

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Wood flooring in Old Street

Engineered and solid boards fitted floating or glued, with the moisture check done first.

Flat-pack assembly in Old Street

Wardrobes, beds, desks and storage built, levelled and anchored to the wall.

Shelf installation in Old Street

Floating and bracketed shelving into plaster, brick, stud and dot-and-dab.

Blinds and curtain fitting in Old Street

One fitter for standard windows; two for bent bay tracks or full-height stairwell blinds.

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Working in Old Street

Old Street EC1V at a glance

Published figures for the neighbourhood that covers Old Street — the numbers that actually change a bath and shower screen fitting quote.

Walk Old Street from Old Street roundabout and Bunhill Fields burial ground outwards and the post-war pattern is obvious: 98% of the 4,949 households in EC1V live in flats, 2% in houses.

28% of households rent privately and 19% own, which is why bath and shower screen fitting demand here peaks around tenancy changeovers and completion dates.

Expect precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in Old Street, often with surface conduit — which is what a 98% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Old Street actually produces behind the plaster in EC1V. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it on these streets — the pattern behind 4,949 households inside the EC1V neighbourhood is the fault we are called back to undo.

Two streets can behave very differently in Old Street: the roundabout, tech offices and warehouse conversions on the City fringe. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Old Street sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate.

On access, red-route roundabout with no kerbside loading, goods-lift booking in the towers and gated estate yards — 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 Old Street (Northern, Great Northern).

Area at a glance

Old Street EC1V by the numbers

Who lives in Old Street 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 Old Street & St Luke's neighbourhood itself — not Islington-wide averages, and not estimates.

10,675

Residents

Old Street & St Luke's neighbourhood, Census 2021

4,949

Households

Median age 31.5

Flats vs houses

Flats 98.3%Houses 1.6%

Residents by sex

Male48.3%

Female51.7%

Single-person households

38.9%

Privately rented

28.3%

Median age: 31.5
Owner-occupied: 19.2%
Social rented: 52.2%
Postcode districts: EC1V, EC1
Nearest station: Old Street
Parking: CPZ + C-Charge + ULEZ

Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhood Old Street & St Luke's (E02000576) — the published geography that covers Old Street, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the EC1V district: 51.5268, -0.0978 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).

Common questions

Bath and shower screen fitting in Old Street EC1V — your questions.

How much does bath and shower screen fitting cost in Old Street EC1V?
Pivot screen on a bath starts at £110 in Old Street on Islington bookings — and 52% social-rented stock nearby, with 2% of Old Street homes being houses, 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 in this 98% flats neighbourhood. 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 for Old Street (EC1V) addresses, with 98% of homes here being flats.
Can you fit a shower screen on an old cast-iron bath in Old Street EC1V?
Yes — a pivot screen is £110. Cast-iron and reglazed baths in Old Street's older stock are rarely level along the rim — and 52% social-rented stock nearby, with 98% of homes here being flats, so the hinge post is packed and shimmed until the screen itself reads plumb. The problem we fix most here is drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it on these streets — the pattern behind 4,949 households inside the EC1V neighbourhood on this side of Islington — and this being a short walk from Old Street (Northern, Great Northern), with 52% social-rented stock nearby.
Do you drill into tiles in EC1V without cracking them?
Yes, with a slow pilot hole and a bit rated for porcelain rather than standard masonry around Old Street (Northern, Great Northern), with 39% one-person households here. Cracked glaze is the most common DIY mistake we're called to fix in Old Street bathrooms in this 98% flats neighbourhood, with 4,949 households on this patch.
I have mould around my old shower screen in Old Street — can you just reseal it?
Yes, from £65. With 98% of Old Street 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 in this 98% flats neighbourhood — and 52% social-rented stock nearby, with this being London Borough of Islington territory.
Is same-day or evening bath and shower screen fitting available in Islington?
Most bookings are within a week, sooner for a re-seal call where damp has already started to show on Islington bookings, with Islington parking rules in play. Old Street sits close to Old Street (Northern, Great Northern) in this 98% flats neighbourhood, with 39% one-person households here — and Old Street roundabout and Bunhill Fields burial ground a few streets away, so we can usually add a EC1V job to an existing Islington round at short notice.
Do you handle difficult access in Old Street?
Red-route roundabout with no kerbside loading, goods-lift booking in the towers and gated estate yards on EC1V jobs. Where a permit or a suspended bay is needed in London Borough of Islington it is itemised on the quote before the visit, never added afterwards around Old Street (Northern, Great Northern), with 19% owner-occupation locally — and 52% social-rented stock nearby.
Are your fitters insured for work in EC1V?
Fitters carry £5m public liability cover, with 2% of Old Street homes being houses — and a median age of 32 in this neighbourhood, 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 Islington bookings. That paperwork is what most Islington letting agents and managing agents ask for before work starts in a leasehold flat in this 98% flats neighbourhood, with 52% social-rented stock nearby.

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