Read the scope, not the package name

Last updated 31 October 2026.

Quote searches want red flags and a fair price. We can list the flags that match how this site already prices work. We cannot name a fair whole-flat price, because we do not publish one. A single “4-room package” that does not say whether the bathroom is hacked, whether the DB is upgraded, and whether the wardrobe is a carton or a built-in cannot be compared with another single number. Split it. The carpenter questions are the furniture half. This note is the whole quote.

Permit work should be named as permit work. Hacking, a new layout, and a bathroom inside the restriction belong on V On Construction’s invoice, UEN 201611708H, which is the company this site already identifies on the HDB Directory of Renovation Contractors. Homey Furnishing invoices the exempt repair. A quote that calls a hack a “design item” so it can be done on Sunday fails the hours guide. Restricted work is weekdays 9:00am to 5:00pm. HDB’s page is the fine of up to $5,000. We are not HDB and we do not list ourselves as the directory. Check the directory on HDB’s site if you want to see who is on it. We will not screenshot a name and call it proof.

Rows you can actually check include a sink-base repair at S$280 to S$700, a full kitchen at S$5,000 to S$6,500 when the layout changes, a socket at S$55, a dedicated circuit at S$220 to S$450, a DB at S$480 to S$780, a small shoe item at S$50 to S$80, and a wardrobe assembly at S$100 to S$650. If your quote uses different numbers for those exact jobs, ask why. If the job is not those jobs, the honest word is quote on inspection, which is what we say. A lower number that omits disposal, the neighbour notice, or the licensed gas worker is not lower. Gas capping is a Licensed Gas Service Worker. New water points are a PUB Licensed Plumber.

The move-in packages are S$688 for a 2-room, S$888 for a 3-room, S$1,048 for a 4-room and S$1,288 for a 5-room. They are not a renovation discount and not an OCS credit. A designer who subtracts them from a renovation has mixed two visits. Loans are not our product. We do not publish an interest rate, a tenure, or a bank. If you need one, that conversation is with the lender, not with a furniture visit.

Disputes have a sentence HDB already wrote, repeated on the hours guide: owners in dispute with their contractor may seek CASE or the Small Claims Tribunals. We are not either body. We will not review a stranger’s contract for a fee, and we do not publish a review of a named firm. Variation orders that appear after demolition are a reason to have written the scope first. A variation for a defect you should have reported is the defect guide, not a reason to pay a carpenter to hide it. Fire safety works stay with a Qualified Person. We are not one.

Homey Furnishing Pte. Ltd. (ACRA UEN 202018148K), 27 Mandai Estate, #06-10 Innovation Place, Singapore 729931, invoices permit-exempt maintenance. V On Construction Pte. Ltd. (ACRA UEN 201611708H), on the HDB Directory of Renovation Contractors, invoices hacking, a new layout, and other work that needs an HDB renovation permit. Homey Furnishing is not a Council for Estate Agencies licensed estate agent and does not sell, rent or market flats. It is not a Ministry of Manpower licensed employment agency and does not place helpers.

Curtains, blinds and roller shades are not part of this booking. This page also does not sell or rent the home, and it does not place a domestic worker.

Photograph the fitting before you buy a product or book a hack.

1. Split hacking, electrical, gas, plumbing and carpentry.
2. Match any line you can to a row already on this site.
3. Reject a Sunday hack.
4. Do not treat a move-in package as a renovation credit.
5. Keep loans and markups out of the comparison. We do not publish them.

The building changes the permission. It does not invent a second price.

What is hacked. What is kept. Who is the licensed person for gas, water and a new window. Whether the wardrobe is assembly or built-in. Whether power is S$55 a point or a new DB. If those answers are missing, you are not ready to compare two quotes. You are ready to ask.

The handyman or designer tool is a sorter for small jobs versus a renovation. It is not a ranking of firms. The carpenter guide is the furniture questions. Use both. Neither one publishes a percentage.

Deposits are not a percentage we print. If a quote asks for money before the scope names the hack, the DB and the disposal, pause. We do not say a deposit is illegal. We say you cannot compare it. A variation that appears after the tiles are gone should have been a line you could have refused. Write the refuse list: no Sunday hack, no fire-door drilling, no shelter-wall fixing, no loan bundled into the carpentry.

Neighbours are part of the quote even though they are not a line item. The hours guide’s notice is five days, in writing, within two units, before renovation. A price that assumes you will skip the notice is a price that assumes a complaint. We will not be the complaint desk. CASE and the Small Claims Tribunals are the sentence already on that guide. Put the notice date in the same folder as the quote so a later variation cannot claim you agreed to start early.

How you're charged

A job that already has a sentence on HomeySG uses that sentence. The hour is not added on top of a band unless the written scope says so. There is no fuel surcharge. A whole-flat repaint, a private defect-scan fee, and a litre of a named paint brand are not in the catalogue.

Who is allowed to do the work

HDB’s important information on renovation says renovation in a flat, including some work that does not need a permit, is carried out by a contractor from the Directory of Renovation Contractors. The same page says failing to use a listed contractor for renovations, or breaching the renovation rules, can lead to a fine of up to $5,000. That sentence is HDB’s. It is not a ruling on your flat. Read the page before you treat a handyman visit as a renovation.

• Permit-exempt maintenance that already has a band, such as a hinge, a silicone joint or a small hole patch, stays on the Homey Furnishing invoice.
• Hacking, a new layout, and replacement of toilet finishes inside HDB’s restriction period move to V On Construction Pte. Ltd. UEN 201611708H. The price of that permit scope is quote on inspection.
• A new cable or a consumer unit is an EMA licensed electrician. A new water point is a PUB licensed plumber. Piped gas is a licensed gas worker.
• Window installation and replacement on an HDB flat is a BCA approved window contractor on HDB’s directory, with a renovation permit first. BCA describes workhead RW01. Homey Furnishing is not that contractor.
• Selling, renting or marketing the flat is estate agency work. CEA registers property agents. We do not do that work.
• A weekly cleaner on this site is not a migrant domestic worker placement. We do not hire out helpers.
• Curtains, blinds and roller shades are not part of this booking.

Ways to keep the bill smaller

• Photograph every mark before you book a full repaint. A hole that matches the S$150 to S$280 sentence does not need a whole-flat price.
• Put several permit-exempt tasks on one visit. The S$55 call-out is one task. Further permit-exempt time is S$45 an hour, not a second trip.
• Report a new-flat defect to HDB, or the developer if the contract says so, before you pay anyone to cover it.
• Do not hack a bathroom floor to “save” a later leak. HDB’s three-year restriction exists so the flat below stays dry.
• Ask which line is the hack, which line is the electrician, and which line is furniture. If the answer is “all included”, you cannot compare it.

WhatsApp the photos to +65 8561 0630.

These rows are checks. They are not a whole-flat package.

Anything not in that table is quote on inspection.

WhatsApp the photos to +65 8561 0630. The reply uses a band already printed on HomeySG, or it says quote on inspection.

• Questions for a carpenter
• Handyman or designer tool
• Permit guide
• Hours
• Kitchen prices
• Quotation note

homeysg.com is run by Homey Furnishing Pte. Ltd., so the renovation list puts Homey first and says so. It is not an independent ranking.

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