Expo, Sands and Suntec: read that show’s manual

Last updated 31 October 2026.

Venue-rule searches want a single Singapore number: how high, how early, whether the floor may be drilled, what overtime costs. Those numbers live in the exhibitor manual for that show, and they change. Copying last year’s PDF into this page would be a false rule. Homey Furnishing is not Singapore Expo, not Marina Bay Sands, and not Suntec Singapore. We build what the current manual allows. The build is quote on inspection on the booth page. This guide is how to read the manual before you ask for that quote.

Suntec Singapore publishes its site and floor plans. A plan shows a hall. It does not show your booth’s permitted height, your freight lift booking, or a price to stay late. If your show is at Singapore Expo or at Sands Expo and Convention Centre, the organiser will have issued a manual. Send the pages on height, rigging, floor fixing, electrical order and tear-down. We will follow those pages. We will not fill a gap with a number from a contractor’s blog.

Shell scheme and raw space are defined in that manual, not in a trade dictionary we invent. If the manual says the shell walls may not be nailed, we will not nail them. If raw space forbids a material, we will not use it. A double-storey stand, a bridge over a gangway, or a ceiling that the manual does not allow is not a favour. It is a submission. We do not sign the fire-safety plan and we do not quote an SCDF clause for exhibitions from memory. Clause 7.2 on this website is the household shelter. It is the wrong document for a hall. Say so if someone mixes them. BCA’s building-works page is for building work. A temporary booth is the venue’s temporary rule unless the manual points at BCA. We will not pretend every booth is a temporary building permit.

Loading and passes are the organiser’s. We do not publish a contractor-pass fee, a freight-lift slot, or a labour-only rule. If the manual says only badged crew may enter during build-up, that is the rule. We do not badge ourselves as the official contractor. Electrical orders are placed with the venue’s contractor when the manual says so. We do not mark up a kilowatt rate we do not issue. A carpenter counter is still quote on inspection. A small flat-pack is S$50 to S$80 only when it is small.

Home rules do not travel to the hall. HDB’s renovation fine of up to $5,000 is for a flat. A void-deck roadshow is the town council and the roadshow page. A mall atrium is the landlord. Do not ask a hall manual to approve an HDB gate, and do not ask HDB to approve a booth in Expo. Curtains as drapes are not part of the booth we price.

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. Name the hall and the show.
2. Send the current manual pages on height, floor and tear-down.
3. Mark exits on the drawing.
4. Do not reuse last year’s height.
5. Expect a quote after the manual, not before.

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

Maximum height. Whether the floor may be penetrated. Whether a roof is allowed. When build-up starts and when tear-down must finish. Who may operate a boom lift. What happens to waste. Those answers are in the PDF. If a line is missing, ask the organiser. Do not ask us to average three halls.

A contractor who quotes a height before reading the manual is guessing. We would rather say we cannot price it yet.

A drawing sized for one hall’s aisle does not slide into another hall because both are in Singapore. Freight doors, pillar grids and the location of floor boxes differ. If you only have a rendering, ask the organiser for the booth plan with dimensions before boards are cut. We will not scale a rendering by eye.

Early move-in, a boom lift, and a night electrician are permissions and trades. They are not included because a booth quote exists. Name them if you need them. If the manual is silent, the answer is to ask the organiser, not to assume the last show’s practice.

Carpentry, a counter, a simple wall, a backdrop, set-up and tear-down when they are in the quote. Acrylic and metal pieces have their own pages. Hired furniture is not our warehouse. The rental guide says so.

A shop in a mall that is open all year is not a booth. Use the shop pages. A night hardware fix is S$380 to S$650 on the overnight page, not a stand build.

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 rule you remember from the last show is not this show. Send the current PDF.

WhatsApp the photos to +65 8561 0630.

Venue charges are not in this table. The build 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.

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