Vinyl plank and tile are not the parquet calculator

Last updated 31 October 2026.

Flooring searches for a new flat mix vinyl plank, large tiles, and the remains of an Optional Component Scheme floor. We do not publish a rate per square metre for any of them on a bare screed. The floor calculator compares a spot repair, typically S$280 to S$1,600, with a vinyl click overlay at S$1,600 to S$3,400 and a full hack and retile at S$4,200 to S$8,500. The page says the overlay is the wrong cover for damp, blackened parquet. Use those numbers only when the floor is that parquet or marble. A new BTO living room is often tile or a finish HDB laid. It is not automatically that calculator.

Tile you want to remove is removing a finish. The hours guide puts stripping finishes and cutting tiles in the weekday 9:00am to 5:00pm window. HDB’s renovation page is the permit. Bathroom floors and walls in the first three years are the restriction the tile-injection page is written around. Four to ten intact hollow tiles are S$350 to S$750 by injection, and the screed stays. A tented tile is S$550 to S$1,200 to lift and re-bed on that page’s terms. Injection is not a new plank floor.

Vinyl on a dry, flat, non-bathroom floor can be a later job. The vinyl page is the service name. It does not, on this site, carry a per-metre band, so the job is quote on inspection until a photo matches some other published row. Do not let a contractor move the parquet overlay price onto a screed and call it the same product. Skirting that has to come off and go back is separate. A termite-damaged skirting run of 10 to 30 metres is S$240 to S$580 on the termite page when that length matches. A whole-unit skirting is S$680 to S$1,350. Those are repairs after damage, not a style upgrade.

Wet areas stay tile unless a qualified person and HDB’s rules say otherwise. We will not lay a vinyl plank in a shower and call it waterproof. A leak under a new floor is the leak pages, not a flooring fashion. Balcony tiles that hold water are the balcony deck page, S$280 to S$550 to lift and flush when that job matches, not a living-room plank. BCA’s page on works that may not need plan approval does not set a vinyl price. A condo is the MCST if the floor build-up changes the level at the door.

Choose after defects. A hollow tile reported at key collection is a defect. Covering it with vinyl hides the item. The key-collection checklist and the defect guide come first. A style note that prefers pale plank does not outrank that. If you are comparing OCS flooring, use the OCS note, which also refuses a made-up credit. We do not publish a brand of plank.

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. Identify screed, tile, or parquet before you ask for a price.
2. Do not put the calculator’s overlay on a bare BTO floor.
3. Leave a new bathroom floor alone if the three-year rule applies.
4. Report hollow tiles before you cover them.
5. Expect quote on inspection for a new plank floor.

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

A large tile that needs the old tile to come off is a hack, with dust, a weekday window, and a permit when HDB says so. It is not a weekend favour. The hack-and-retile band of S$4,200 to S$8,500 is the calculator’s comparison for a parquet or marble field, not a promise for your flat. Confirm the area before anyone treats it as yours.

Skirting, a door undercut, and a balcony step are the pieces a plank thickness changes. Say if a door already clears by only a few millimetres. We will not plane a fire door to suit a plank.

A balcony that is tiled and dry is not an invitation to overlay it with interior plank. Water, a scupper and the three-year rule if it is part of the wet story belong on the balcony and bathroom notes. A living-room floor that meets a bathroom at a marble sill needs the sill to stay the water stop. Covering the sill with vinyl so the floor looks continuous is how the bathroom floods the living room. Say if you want one level. The answer may be no.

Samples should sit in the flat for a day, not in the showroom. West light and a white wall will show a pink plank that looked grey under shop lamps. We do not publish a brand that “matches HDB”. There is no such match on this site. If the sample cups because the room is shut and wet, do not install a floor of it. That is the materials guide’s moisture point, applied to a floor.

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.
• Photograph a corner where the skirting meets the floor. That shows whether you are covering tile, parquet or screed.

WhatsApp the photos to +65 8561 0630.

Published floor numbers belong to the floors they were written for.

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.

• Floor calculator
• Vinyl flooring
• Hollow tile injection
• OCS decisions
• Hacking hours
• Defects checklist