Measure after you can stand in the flat, and report defects first

Last updated 31 October 2026.

BTO buyers ask when to book the carpenter, whether they may renovate before the defects inspection, and whether the showflat size is the size. The showflat is not your unit. Air-con trunks, a shelter door and a beam are in the flat you were given. Measure there. We will not print a recommended week after key collection, because the sequence depends on whether you can enter, whether defects are still open, and whether a permit is required. The lead-time guide already refuses borrowed week counts. This page is the order of events.

Defects come before covers. If a wall is stained, a tile is hollow, or a door will not latch, report it while it is still the developer’s item to see. The defect report guide and the key-collection checklist are that process. A carpenter who skins a wall before the report can hide the item you needed on the list. We will not tell you the developer’s deadline in days. Read the papers that came with the flat. A wardrobe screwed over a crack is a wardrobe. It is not a defect report.

Bathroom finishes are the rule people mix into furniture. HDB’s renovation page says toilet floor and wall finishes must not be replaced for three years from the completion date of the block, and that new floor finishes may be laid over with adhesives. That sentence is about those finishes. It is not a ban on a loose shoe cabinet. It is a ban on hacking the bathroom to “make space” for a cabinet. The overlay page on this site is the longer version. HDB’s important information is the source. A fine of up to $5,000 is that page’s sentence for a renovation that breaches the rules.

What you can book early is a loose piece that does not depend on a scribe: a carton bed at S$80 to S$150, a carton wardrobe at S$100 to S$650, once the cartons can stand in the room. What you should not cut early is a platform scribed to a niche, a wardrobe around a trunk, or a kitchen. Those are quote on inspection after measurement. A kitchen that changes the layout needs a permit through V On Construction. Applying for approval is that step. A hinge on a developer door does not.

Noise and neighbours are the other clock. The permit guide already says noisy hacking belongs in weekday daytime, the pattern described as about 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday, and not as a Sunday favour. That is not a furniture assembly rule. Assembly of a carton is not hacking. If your carpenter’s programme is mostly hacking, it is the permit job, not the assembly band. BCA plan approval is separate again, for building works. A loose table is not one. A shelter wall is not a place to gain a niche.

Order of money: confirm defects, measure, then accept a quote or a band. Paying a deposit on a showflat drawing is how a scribe misses the trunk. We do not publish a deposit percentage. The page on what to ask a carpenter is the list to send with the photos once you have stood in the room. Curtains can wait. They are not part of this sequence.

Homey Furnishing Pte. Ltd. (ACRA UEN 202018148K), 27 Mandai Estate, #06-10 Innovation Place, Singapore 729931, invoices permit-exempt furniture assembly and repair. V On Construction Pte. Ltd. (ACRA UEN 201611708H), on the HDB Directory of Renovation Contractors, invoices an HDB renovation permit when the work is a new layout, hacking, or a built-in strip-out. Homey Furnishing is not a removal company and does not publish a truck rate.

Curtains, blinds and roller shades are not part of this booking. Fabric window treatments are a different product, and these pages do not quote them.

Look at the piece in the room. Do not drag a tall wardrobe across a wet floor to test it.

1. Do not send a showflat plan as the measurement.
2. Report defects before a carpenter covers them.
3. Separate carton assembly from scribed carpentry.
4. Read the three-year bathroom rule before anyone hacks a toilet.
5. Expect quote on inspection for anything scribed, and a band only for a matching carton.

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

It means do not hide a crack, a leak or a door that will not close. It does not mean you may not own a loose table. A loose table does not cover a defect. A built-in headboard screwed over a damp wall does. If you are unsure whether an item is a defect, photograph it before the carpenter stands in front of it.

The repairs-after-defects page is for work once that period is over. Do not use a furniture quote to skip it.

Key collection does not mean the lift is free for a 2.4 metre panel. Book the building’s rules yourself. We do not publish a moving slot. The moving guide is the path once you have a date. Assembly happens when the cartons are in the room, not in the corridor.

If the flat is still being cleaned, do not assemble onto a wet floor. The move-in sequence on this site already puts furniture after the clean has dried. That order is not a new price.

How you're charged

A furniture job that already has a sentence on HomeySG uses that sentence. Nothing in this table is a fuel surcharge, and the handyman hour is not added on top of a band unless the written scope says so. IKEA publishes its own checkout fee. That percentage is not a HomeySG band.

Who is allowed to do the work

The permit guide on this site already splits hardware from a renovation. A cabinet hinge, a gas strut and a drawer runner do not need an HDB renovation permit when the layout stays. A new kitchen or bathroom layout, hacking, or removing a wall does. Fines for unauthorised work are already written there as up to S$5,000. Homey Furnishing does not sign the permit invoice.

• Flat-pack assembly uses the furniture assembly catalogue. Tall units are wall-anchored on that visit. A separate anti-tip price is not printed, except the child-gate and anti-tip bundle at S$180 to S$420 when that bundle is the job.
• A built-in that has to come off the wall can become a strip-out. That is V On Construction if the flat is HDB and the work needs a permit. A loose shelf inside a carcass is not a strip-out.
• Town councils collect some bulky loose items on their own rules. We are not the collector, and we do not publish their fee.
• A new cable inside a wardrobe is an electrician. Assembly does not include a new circuit.
• Do not anchor into a household shelter wall. The permit guide already keeps TV brackets and shelves off that wall.
• A hollow partition or a false ceiling is a poor anchor for a tall wardrobe. If the fixing cannot reach structure, the visit stops.
• Active termites are not painted over. Skirting and door-frame replacement after damage uses the termite page bands. We do not claim to be the pest-control operator.
• Curtains, blinds and roller shades are not quoted here.

Ways to keep the bill smaller

• Photograph every piece before a carpenter is booked. A hinge visit is not a new kitchen.
• Put the flat-pack in the room where it will stand. Carrying a built wardrobe down an HDB corridor is a second job.
• If the drawer only sticks, use the published slide row. A new carcass is the cabinet page, and only when the board is swollen.
• Book the town council bulky slot before you pay anyone to truck a loose sofa. Many councils collect a limited number of loose items. Built-ins are usually excluded.
• A showflat dimension is not your unit. Beams, trunks and a shelter door move the tape.

WhatsApp the photos to +65 8561 0630.

Nothing here is a BTO package price. Cartons keep their bands. Scribed work is a quote.

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.

• Report defects first
• Key collection checklist
• Lead times we do not invent
• What to ask
• Permit guide
• Carpentry
• Getting pieces in
• Handyman price list

The order on this page stays the order. The flat size, the option sheet and the bathroom restriction are separate notes. None of them adds a week count.

• Optional Component Scheme
• Bathroom, first three years
• Without hacking