Paint, laminate, or a veneer that is already peeling

Last updated 31 October 2026.

The existing laminate versus veneer note is the design comparison of two faces. Keep it. This page answers the next questions: can you paint laminate, what do you do when veneer peels, and when paint is the wrong cover for a wet board. The materials guide is the core under the face. Read that if you do not yet know whether you are looking at a plank, a veneer, or a chip core. Come back here when the face has failed or you want to change the colour.

A peeled face on a room door, with the core still sound, is the door page’s veneer or pet-scratch patch at S$160 to S$350. That sentence is a door. It is not a wardrobe of ten doors and it is not a table. A cabinet door whose laminate has lifted because the board drank water is the kitchen path if it is the sink base: S$280 to S$450 for the base board, S$450 to S$700 with the gable and plinth, S$550 to S$900 for a PVC-foam or aluminium conversion after a repeat failure. Painting that door is how the leak gets hidden. Stop the leak first. The cabinet repair page is the mechanism.

Painting a sound laminate face is a different request. People want one wardrobe to match a newer run. Paint on a glossy skin fails when the skin was not keyed, and it still will not fix a colour that only mismatched in daylight. We do not publish a price per door for paint, and we do not publish a paint brand. The job is quote on inspection. Vinyl wrap is the same answer. A wrap that looks right in a sample and lifts at the edge banding is not the hinge row. Edge banding that is already loose on a sound board is quote on inspection. It is not “from S$38”, which is a hinge, not a tape.

Matching a new door to an old face is the matching guide. A sample in the showroom is not the light in your flat. If you approve a face from a photo on a phone, expect the daylight to disagree. That disagreement is not a defect rate we have measured. It is a reason to look at a physical sample on the wall before the board is cut. Delivery day is late.

Pet scratches through a sound veneer can be the same door patch, S$160 to S$350, when the core is intact. Scratches that have crushed the core are not. A cat that will return to the same corner will open the repair. The child and pet page is the behaviour. This page is the face. We will not sell a curtain as a cover for the scratch.

None of this is a permit by itself. Painting a loose door is not an HDB renovation. Replacing a built-in run can be a strip-out. HDB’s renovation page and the fine of up to $5,000 apply when the work is a renovation that breaches the rules. Do not sand a shelter door to take paint. Clause 7.2 is the shelter limit. BCA plan approval is not a tin of paint.

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. Photograph the edge and say whether the board is soft.
2. If it is a sink cabinet, stop the leak before any face.
3. Do not paint a lifted skin.
4. Ask for the door patch only when the core is sound and the piece is a door.
5. Match colour with a sample in the room, not a phone screen.

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

A door that sags and a door that peels can be the same door. Fix the hinge if the carcass is square: S$50 to S$100 to align, from S$38 for a generic hinge, S$90 to S$180 for a Blum 110 degree pair when the cup matches. Then look at the face. Replacing the hinge will not glue a bubble.

A full set of new doors on a sound box is quote on inspection. It is not ten times the single-door patch unless the sentence is ten sound room doors, which a cabinet run is not. Say how many, and send one photo of the worst and one of a sound door.

Paint will not seal a raw MDF edge in a wet kitchen. Paint will not turn particle board back into a plank. Paint will not make a new piece match an old one if the sheen is different. If the goal is a match, read the matching guide and approve a sample. If the goal is to hide a leak, stop.

Curtains, blinds and roller shades are not a colour strategy. They are not quoted on this page.

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.
• Do not paint a lifted edge. Paint will not stick the skin back down, and it hides the core.

WhatsApp the photos to +65 8561 0630.

The door patch is narrow. Paint and a new skin on a cabinet are quote on inspection.

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.

• Laminate versus veneer
• Cores and moisture
• Matching an existing face
• Room doors
• Wet cabinets
• Hinges
• Solid wood cracks
• Custom furniture
• Handyman price list