Lewisham · SE8 · Bath and shower screen fitting
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Deptford fitters · Fixed written pricesDeptford SE8 is a regular stop on our Lewisham round. Market street, the Albany and the creek-side yards of the old naval dockyard, 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.
Overview
This page prices bath and shower screen fitting for Deptford SE8 specifically: Georgian and early Victorian stock, 28% privately rented and 7,370 households in total. Work starts at £110, fixed in writing, with parking and London Borough of Lewisham 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
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. Market-day closures on Deptford High Street, narrow creek lanes and estate lifts.
Most bookings are within a week, sooner for a re-seal call where damp has already started to show. Deptford (Southeastern) is the nearest station, so a SE8 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect precast concrete panels and dense blockwork; locally that also means often with surface conduit — and with 28% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does in SE8, 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 7,370 households inside the SE8 neighbourhood.
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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Working in Deptford
Census 2021 puts Deptford at 7,370 households with a median age of 32.3. The Georgian and early Victorian stock is social-housing-led, which is why 17% houses and 83% flats need different handling in SE8.
Owner-occupation runs at 24% in Deptford, so alongside the 28% rental churn there is steady planned work — refurbishments, downsizes and probate clearances booked weeks ahead.
Walls are precast concrete panels and dense blockwork; locally that also means often with surface conduit — and with 28% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does, so the fixing that matters in Deptford is chosen on site — the usual failure here is drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it on these streets — the pattern behind 7,370 households inside the SE8 neighbourhood.
Anyone who knows Deptford knows the pattern near Deptford Market Yard: market street, the Albany and the creek-side yards of the old naval dockyard. We plan the SE8 visit around it. Deptford is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
Market-day closures on Deptford High Street, narrow creek lanes and estate lifts. Nearest station is Deptford (Southeastern), and 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.
Area at a glance
Who lives in Deptford 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 Deptford North and New Cross & Deptford South neighbourhood itself — not Lewisham-wide averages, and not estimates.
17,675
Residents
Deptford North and New Cross & Deptford South neighbourhood, Census 2021
7,370
Households
Median age 32.3
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
33.1%
Privately rented
27.5%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhoods Deptford North, New Cross & Deptford South (E02000654, E02006798) — the published geography that covers Deptford, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the SE8 district: 51.4820, -0.0296 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Pivot screen on a bath starts at £110 in Deptford, with this being a short walk from Deptford (Southeastern), 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 Lewisham bookings. 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 streets near Deptford Market Yard, with 48% social-rented stock nearby.
Yes — a pivot screen is £110. Cast-iron and reglazed baths in Deptford's older stock are rarely level along the rim, with Lewisham parking rules in play — and 48% social-rented stock nearby, 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 7,370 households inside the SE8 neighbourhood on the Deptford rounds — and this being London Borough of Lewisham territory, with a median age of 32 in this neighbourhood.
Yes, with a slow pilot hole and a bit rated for porcelain rather than standard masonry in Deptford, with this being London Borough of Lewisham territory. Cracked glaze is the most common DIY mistake we're called to fix in Deptford bathrooms around Deptford (Southeastern).
Yes, from £65. With 83% of Deptford 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 for Deptford (SE8) addresses — and 24% owner-occupation locally, with Lewisham parking rules in play.
All three. With 28% of Deptford privately rented and 24% owner-occupied, roughly half the SE8 diary is agent- or landlord-instructed and invoiced separately from the person at the door around Deptford (Southeastern) — and 28% of SE8 homes being privately rented, with Deptford Market Yard a few streets away.
Deptford Market Yard is the marker we route to in Deptford, with this being a short walk from Deptford (Southeastern), and market-day closures on Deptford High Street, narrow creek lanes and estate lifts. A SE8 slot added to an existing Lewisham round usually lands the same week rather than the next on this side of Lewisham, with 24% owner-occupation locally.
Most bookings are within a week, sooner for a re-seal call where damp has already started to show in Deptford, with 83% of homes here being flats. Deptford sits close to Deptford (Southeastern), with Deptford Market Yard a few streets away, so we can usually add a SE8 job to an existing Lewisham round at short notice around Deptford (Southeastern).
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Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. Deptford SE8 jobs are confirmed in writing before anyone travels, and the same crew covers the rest of lewisham.
No deposit is taken until the price and slot are confirmed in writing.
