Take it apart, move it, put it back: three different jobs

Last updated 31 October 2026.

Moving house splits one wish into three bookings. Someone takes the furniture apart. Someone carries it. Someone builds it again. Homey Furnishing does the first and the third when they are our work. We do not do the truck. The dismantling page and the bed dismantling page already say there is no per-bed or per-wardrobe dismantle price. This guide is the order, so a storage bed is not unscrewed on the wet-clean day and left in the only corridor.

Taking apart a loose frame is quote on inspection. Putting a bed frame together is S$80 to S$150. A storage bed or bunk is S$120 to S$200 to assemble. A wardrobe is S$100 to S$650. Those sentences are the direction of building. They are not refunded when the same piece comes apart, and they are not the price of the lorry. Gas struts at S$180 to S$380 are for a storage bed whose struts are being replaced because the base falls. If you are throwing the bed away, you do not need new struts. Say disposal or say reassembly.

A built-in is the piece that surprises people. It was scribed to one wall. The next alcove is a different width. Unscrewing it can be a strip-out. HDB’s renovation page and the fine of up to $5,000 apply when a renovation breaches the rules. V On Construction invoices that permit. A loose MALM in the middle of the room is not that permit. Photograph the fixings. Anchors left behind can be a small hole patch at S$150 to S$280 when that sentence matches. Do not stack that patch on a handover package that already counts holes, until you have read both. The lift guide covers both directions. We still do not publish a cabin size.

Town councils are why many beds are dismantled at all. The bulky guide already records that several towns expect large pieces dismantled, and that a mattress and a frame are often two items. We do not publish their fee. A condo is the MCST, not the town council. Debris does not go down the chute. A tenant who does not own the wardrobe should not ask for it to be taken apart. The rental guide says the same. Label every fittings bag. Write which room it belongs to at the next address, not only the old one.

Reassembly fails when the new room cannot take the old size. A wardrobe that cleared the old ceiling hits a beam. A desk that faced a window now faces a door swing. Measure the next flat before you pay to move a scribed carcass. A carton that still matches a band is assembled at that band once it is in the new room. A carpenter piece that must be cut down is the resize page and is quote on inspection. We will not cut it in the old flat and hope. Shelter walls at the new flat are still refused as anchors. BCA plan approval is not a move.

Sequence the days. Clean and dry first if the flat is being handed over. Then the dismantle. Then the truck, which is not us. Then assembly. Do not book all three of our visits for the same morning as the lorry. A half-dismantled bunk in a stairwell is how someone gets hurt. We will not rush it. Curtains you are taking down are the curtain pages, not this one.

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. Say loose frame, storage bed, or built-in.
2. Confirm you own it.
3. Bag and label the fittings.
4. Hire the truck yourself.
5. Measure the next room before you reassemble a scribed piece.

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

A motorised desk moved to a new office is S$180 to S$320 when that is the desk page’s move: actuator packed and set up again. It is not “dismantle a wardrobe”. A run of ten to thirty desks is the rollout at S$580 to S$1,800 if they are that product. A carpenter meeting table is quote on inspection. The building’s loading bay is their booking.

Cable trunks that were fixed to the old floor do not pull off as part of the desk band unless the desk page’s sentence includes that scope. Read it. A new point at the new office is an electrician.

Do not dismantle a fire door, a shelter door, or a window grille to “make space for the sofa”. Those are other trades and other permits. A window grille is the window page. A metal gate hinge that has snapped is the autogate weld at S$180 to S$350 when that repair matches. It is not furniture dismantling.

Do not dismantle something because a forum said the council will not take it whole, until you have read your own town’s page. The bulky guide is the place. We will not invent their rule.

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.
• Bag the fittings and tape the bag to the panel. A loose cam in a mover’s blanket is a missing part at the new flat.

WhatsApp the photos to +65 8561 0630.

Assembly at the next home is a new visit. Dismantling stays 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.

• Dismantling
• Bed dismantling
• Shift inside one home
• Lifts and stairs
• Prepare the next room
• Bulky disposal
• Resize to fit
• Handyman price list