Lambeth · SW16 · Bath and shower screen fitting
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Streatham fitters · Fixed written pricesBath and shower screen fitting in Streatham SW16, Lambeth, from £110. A two-mile high road, the common and the ice rink, with Edwardian streets either side, which is why our SW16 quotes account for a23 red route, side streets with permit bays and mansion blocks with small lifts. You get a fixed price in writing, an insured fitter and a tidy finish.
Overview
Booked mostly by mixed-tenure households around Streatham, bath and shower screen fitting here covers supply-free fitting from £110. With 66% of Streatham's 26,325 homes in flats, lift access and stair carries in SW16 shape the slot length we hold.
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
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. A23 red route, side streets with permit bays and mansion blocks with small lifts.
Most bookings are within a week, sooner for a re-seal call where damp has already started to show. Streatham (Thameslink, Southern) is the nearest station, so a SW16 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect lath and plaster over timber studs in Streatham, with solid brick on the party and external walls — where 44% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year in SW16, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster in SW16, which crumbles the key and drops the panel — which is why London Borough of Lambeth kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded.
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.
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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Coverage
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Working in Streatham
The SW16 stock around Streatham Common and the Rookery is mainly Edwardian. ONS records 66% flats, 34% houses and 26,325 households in Streatham.
Owner-occupation runs at 44% in Streatham, so alongside the 35% rental churn there is steady planned work — refurbishments, downsizes and probate clearances booked weeks ahead.
Walls are lath and plaster over timber studs in Streatham, with solid brick on the party and external walls — where 44% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year, so the fixing that matters in Streatham is chosen on site — the usual failure here is a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster in SW16, which crumbles the key and drops the panel — which is why London Borough of Lambeth kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded.
Anyone who knows Streatham knows the pattern near Streatham Common and the Rookery: a two-mile high road, the common and the ice rink, with Edwardian streets either side. We plan the SW16 visit around it. Streatham 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, a23 red route, side streets with permit bays and mansion blocks with small lifts — 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 Streatham (Thameslink, Southern).
Area at a glance
Who lives in Streatham 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 Clapham Park East & Streatham Hill North and Streatham Central and Streatham Common and Streatham Green and Streatham Hill and Streatham Vale and West Norwood West & Streatham East neighbourhood itself — not Lambeth-wide averages, and not estimates.
64,560
Residents
Clapham Park East & Streatham Hill North and Streatham Central and Streatham Common and Streatham Green and Streatham Hill and Streatham Vale and West Norwood West & Streatham East neighbourhood, Census 2021
26,325
Households
Median age 34.9
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
30.3%
Privately rented
34.7%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhoods Clapham Park East & Streatham Hill North, Streatham Central, Streatham Common, Streatham Green, Streatham Hill, Streatham Vale, West Norwood West & Streatham East (E02000639, E02000643, E02000646, E02000647, E02000649, E02000651, E02000652) — the published geography that covers Streatham, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the SW16 district: 51.4212, -0.1293 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Pivot screen on a bath starts at £110 in Streatham on this side of Lambeth, with 21% social-rented stock nearby, 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 across SW16. 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 around Streatham (Thameslink, Southern), with Streatham Common and the Rookery a few streets away.
Yes — a pivot screen is £110. Cast-iron and reglazed baths in Streatham's older stock are rarely level along the rim in this 66% flats neighbourhood — and 21% social-rented stock nearby, with this being a short walk from Streatham (Thameslink, Southern), so the hinge post is packed and shimmed until the screen itself reads plumb. The problem we fix most here is a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster in SW16 around Streatham (Thameslink, Southern) — and this being a short walk from Streatham (Thameslink, Southern), with 34% of Streatham homes being houses, which crumbles the key and drops the panel — which is why London Borough of Lambeth kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded.
Yes, with a slow pilot hole and a bit rated for porcelain rather than standard masonry for Streatham (SW16) addresses, with 66% of homes here being flats. Cracked glaze is the most common DIY mistake we're called to fix in Streatham bathrooms.
Yes, from £65. With 66% of Streatham 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 the Streatham rounds — and 44% owner-occupation locally, with 26,325 households on this patch.
Most bookings are within a week, sooner for a re-seal call where damp has already started to show for Streatham (SW16) addresses, with 66% of homes here being flats. Streatham sits close to Streatham (Thameslink, Southern), with Lambeth parking rules in play, so we can usually add a SW16 job to an existing Lambeth round at short notice in Streatham.
A23 red route, side streets with permit bays and mansion blocks with small lifts on the Streatham rounds. Where a permit or a suspended bay is needed in London Borough of Lambeth it is itemised on the quote before the visit, never added afterwards on SW16 jobs — and 35% of SW16 homes being privately rented, with this being a short walk from Streatham (Thameslink, Southern).
Fitters carry £5m public liability cover, with 35% of SW16 homes being privately rented, 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 for Streatham (SW16) addresses. That paperwork is what most Lambeth letting agents and managing agents ask for before work starts in a leasehold flat on the Streatham rounds, with Streatham Common and the Rookery a few streets away.
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Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. Streatham SW16 jobs are confirmed in writing before anyone travels, and the same crew covers the rest of lambeth.
No deposit is taken until the price and slot are confirmed in writing.
