HDB carpentry costs: what is printed, and what stays a quote

Last updated 31 October 2026.

HDB carpentry cost is a weak exact phrase in autocomplete and a strong intent underneath it. People type carpentry Singapore price, built-in wardrobe price, platform bed carpentry, TV console carpentry and shoe cabinet carpentry. Contractor sites answer with a foot-run range and a week count. Those ranges are not measured on this site, so this guide does not adopt them. The numbers below are sentences already printed on HomeySG. If your room is not that sentence, the line is quote on inspection. That is the whole method.

Kitchens are the one full-replacement comparison we do print. The cabinet repair page sets targeted micro-repair at S$280 to S$700 against full kitchen carpentry replacement at S$5,000 to S$6,500. Time on site for the repair is described there as 3 to 5 hours, and the full carpentry as 2 to 4 weeks. A permit is not required when the layout stays. It is required for hacking, a new layout or a gas-point shift. The under-sink base board is S$280 to S$450, base plus gable plus plinth is S$450 to S$700, and a PVC-foam or aluminium conversion is S$550 to S$900. A dishwasher bay is S$350 to S$850. A robot-vacuum cabinet hole and plumbing prep is S$220 to S$480 on the appliance page. None of those is a per-foot kitchen. The calculator on the cabinet page is the place to compare repair and replacement before you sign a carpentry package.

Wardrobes split into flat-pack, repair, and custom. Flat-pack, including a PAX that is still a wardrobe, is S$100 to S$650, with a larger multi-door confirmation at S$250 to S$650 inside that range. Sliding-door repairs on a built-in are S$160 to S$280 for rollers, S$240 to S$420 for a 1.5m to 3.0m track, S$280 to S$550 to re-hang a heavy mirror door, and S$380 to S$680 for a 2-door or 3-door overhaul. That page says a new built-in wardrobe of this size is often about S$3,000, and that the overhaul is the hardware at about 15 percent of that. Keep the sentence attached to that page. It is not a measurement of a 5-room master bedroom, and it is not permission to invent S$3,000 for a shoe cabinet. Custom built-in wardrobes, walk-ins and anything scribed around an air-con trunk or a shelter bulkhead are quote on inspection. The existing built-in wardrobe page is the service to read next. This guide does not replace it.

Platform beds, study tables, TV consoles and shoe cabinets are the other built-ins people add to a carpentry package. A flat-pack bed frame is S$80 to S$150. A storage bed or bunk is S$120 to S$200. Gas struts are S$180 to S$380 a pair. A custom platform or tatami bed built to the room is quote on inspection. A motorised standing desk with monitor arms is S$140 to S$260 on the desk page, which is a desk product, not a carpenter study table. A carpenter study table is quote on inspection. A TV console that is a small flat-pack item can be S$50 to S$80. A carpenter TV console, with or without a feature wall, is quote on inspection. Wall-mounting the television is the TV mounting page. A bracket moved between two homes is S$40 to S$70. A shoe cabinet that is truly a small item is S$50 to S$80. A tall shoe cabinet that is really a wardrobe uses the wardrobe band if it is flat-pack. A custom entry shoe cabinet is quote on inspection. The shoe-cabinet service page is the existing URL. No new shoe price is added here.

Humidity, termites and permits decide whether the cheap repair survives. Particle board under a sink swells. The leak is fixed before the new panel. Timber skirting that a screwdriver sinks into is the termite page: S$240 to S$580 for 10m to 30m of waterproof skirting, up to S$680 to S$1,350 for a whole-unit restoration when that sentence matches. We do not claim to treat the colony. New boards that smell can take the spot treatment at S$180 to S$280 for up to three pieces. Fines for unauthorised HDB work are already written in the permit guide as up to S$5,000. Noisy hacking is a weekday daytime activity. A Sunday carpenter in an HDB flat is not a favour we sell. Condo MCSTs add their own deposit and hours on top of the same bands. Landed houses skip the HDB permit and still do not get a secret foot-run.

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.

Match the photo to a printed row before you ask for a carpentry package.

1. List wardrobe, kitchen, bed, study table, TV console and shoe cabinet as separate lines.
2. Photograph whether the carcass is loose flat-pack or screwed to the wall.
3. Stop a full kitchen quote if only the sink base is soft.
4. Do not send a foot-run screenshot and ask us to honour it.
5. Read the permit guide before anyone hacks.

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

A resale kitchen in Bedok with a soft sink base and sound wall cabinets is the S$280 to S$700 repair, after the leak stops. It is not a S$5,000 kitchen because a brochure said kitchens start there. If the doors, the top and the layout all have to change, then the comparison row is the right conversation, and the permit comes before the hack.

A BTO bedroom in Punggol with a PAX still in cartons is the wardrobe assembly band. Anchoring is part of that visit. The shelter bulkhead is not an anchor. A custom wrap around the air-con trunk is quote on inspection even if the rest of the room is PAX.

A couple who want a platform bed with drawers in a 4-room flat, scribed to a niche, are not buying the S$80 MALM row. The storage-bed assembly row is only for a storage bed that is that product. The carpenter platform is quote on inspection. Gas struts at S$180 to S$380 apply if the product is a storage bed whose struts failed, not as a default add-on.

An entry shoe cabinet plus a TV console in a condo living room are two quotes if both are custom. A small flat-pack shoe box can be S$50 to S$80. The television on the wall is the mounting page. Laminate colour is not a price. The laminate-versus-veneer article on this site is a design note. It does not add a material surcharge here.

Foot-run wardrobe, kitchen, console and shoe prices on contractor sites are their price lists. Asking us to match a per-foot figure is how a quote becomes fiction. Send the metreage and the photos. If we can match a printed HomeySG row, we will. If we cannot, we will say quote on inspection.

Curtains, blinds and roller shades appear beside carpentry because rooms get furnished together. They are not quoted on this guide. A carpentry decision does not need a fabric bundle. Zip-track motors and indoor roller shades stay off the booking.

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.
• Use the cabinet calculator before you approve a whole kitchen. A hinge is not a new layout.

WhatsApp the photos to +65 8561 0630.

Every dollar below is already on another HomeySG page. Custom lines stay blank on purpose.

Match a published band

Pick the job the photo actually is. The result is a band already printed on HomeySG, or quote on inspection. It does not add a new number.

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.

• Carpentry service
• Kitchen cabinets
• Built-in wardrobes
• Shoe cabinets
• Cabinet repair
• Repair versus replace calculator
• Flat-pack assembly
• Permit guide
• Handyman price list

The bands on this guide stay the bands. Sofas, dining tables, platform beds and the materials choice have their own pages and do not add a foot-run.

• Custom furniture
• Solid wood, plywood and MDF
• Lead time, deposit and warranty
• Small HDB rooms