A tall HDB flat is not a landed house

Last updated 31 October 2026.

These searches mix a two-storey HDB maisonette, a large single-storey executive apartment, a jumbo flat people describe as two units opened into one, and HUDC estates that may now be private. We will not confirm any of those descriptions for your block. Your papers and HDB, or the MCST if it has been privatised, do. The interior rules follow that answer. If it is still HDB, HDB’s renovation page and the hours guide apply, including the fine of up to $5,000. If a managing agent says it is strata, the MCST guide applies. An HDB terrace flat is not the landed terrace note until that answer is clear.

Stairs are the maisonette job people under-price. The stair page re-anchors a loose handrail at S$250 to S$480, tightens intact glass at S$350 to S$780, treats squeaky treads at S$380 to S$850, and sands a full stair at S$680 to S$1,600. A new flight is the spiral-stair page and is quote on inspection. We do not design a new opening. Homey Furnishing Pte. Ltd. is not an architect, not a professional engineer, and not a Qualified Person. BCA’s page on works that may not need plan approval says a Qualified Person is an architect registered with the Board of Architects, or a professional engineer registered with the Professional Engineers Board, with a valid practising certificate. We do not sign plans. The 1.0 m barrier sentence on the stair page is not a void design. A shelter on either level is still clause 7.2. Do not land a new flight on a shelter slab.

Height is the light job. The high-ceiling page prices a condo loft or HDB maisonette at 3.6 m to 4.8 m at S$220 to S$380, including a fibreglass ladder, and 4.8 m to 6.0 m at S$380 to S$680 with a tower scaffold. A heavy chandelier is S$480 to S$950. If you have not measured, do not ask us to guess from “it feels tall”. A false ceiling that drops a tall room to ordinary height is quote on inspection and may be a renovation. It is not included in the light visit. An attic ladder in an existing hatch is S$850 to S$1,950 on the attic page and is not a maisonette stair.

Jumbo and executive layouts invite a second kitchen or a removed wall. Removing a wall is hacking, weekday hours, and a permit if HDB requires it. We will not call a load-bearing wall a partition. A Qualified Person decides that. Two kitchens mean two sets of plumbing and gas. New water points are a PUB Licensed Plumber. Gas is a Licensed Gas Service Worker. A carpenter island is quote on inspection and does not move the gas. Furniture for a lower bedroom is the same assembly rows as any flat: a wardrobe carton S$100 to S$650. The lift and stair guide has no cabin size. A sofa that will not turn on a maisonette stair is a measuring problem, not a new price.

Pinnacle-type lofts and penthouse HDB units are not given a private balcony code here. If the block has its own by-laws or HDB conditions, send them. We do not store them. Studio apartments and community care apartments are smaller HDB types. Use the 2-room Flexi note for a small plan, and the grab-bar page for a bar. Do not scale a maisonette void down to a studio. HUDC versus condo is the same instruction as the EC note: find out who the rules belong to before you book the hack.

Homey Furnishing Pte. Ltd. (ACRA UEN 202018148K), 27 Mandai Estate, #06-10 Innovation Place, Singapore 729931, invoices permit-exempt maintenance. V On Construction Pte. Ltd. (ACRA UEN 201611708H), on the HDB Directory of Renovation Contractors, invoices hacking, a new layout, and other work that needs an HDB renovation permit. Homey Furnishing is not a Council for Estate Agencies licensed estate agent and does not sell, rent or market flats. It is not a Ministry of Manpower licensed employment agency and does not place helpers.

Curtains, blinds and roller shades are not part of this booking. This page also does not sell or rent the home, and it does not place a domestic worker.

Photograph the fitting before you buy a product or book a hack.

1. Read the flat type off your papers, not off a forum.
2. Price a loose rail from the stair page before you design a void.
3. Measure height before you book a high-ceiling light.
4. Treat a removed wall as a permit, not as furniture.
5. Do not use landed A&A rules on an HDB maisonette.

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

A wardrobe built on the upper floor has to arrive in pieces that turn the stair. We do not publish a turning radius. If the piece is a carton, assembly is the assembly page. If it is built in place, it is a quote. Do not ask the delivery crew to force it and then ask us to repair the rail under the assembly price. A damaged rail is the S$250 to S$480 re-anchor only when that repair matches.

A void railing that is loose is the same stair page. A new glass balcony on a roof terrace of an HDB penthouse flat is quote on inspection and is not the intact-glass repair of S$350 to S$780.

A lower bedroom in a maisonette is often under the stair or beside the kitchen. A bed there needs a door that still opens and a path that is not the only route to the upper floor. We will not build a wardrobe that turns the stair into a corridor. Measure with the bed you own. A carton that fits is S$100 to S$650 to assemble. One that does not fit is not discounted. It goes back.

An upper living room with a void is where a glass rail gets loose. The intact-glass row is S$350 to S$780. A new glass design is a quote and a Qualified Person if the barrier changes. Children and the void are a reason to repair the rail, not a reason to store boxes on the stair.

How you're charged

A job that already has a sentence on HomeySG uses that sentence. The hour is not added on top of a band unless the written scope says so. There is no fuel surcharge. A whole-flat repaint, a private defect-scan fee, and a litre of a named paint brand are not in the catalogue.

Who is allowed to do the work

HDB’s important information on renovation says renovation in a flat, including some work that does not need a permit, is carried out by a contractor from the Directory of Renovation Contractors. The same page says failing to use a listed contractor for renovations, or breaching the renovation rules, can lead to a fine of up to $5,000. That sentence is HDB’s. It is not a ruling on your flat. Read the page before you treat a handyman visit as a renovation.

• Permit-exempt maintenance that already has a band, such as a hinge, a silicone joint or a small hole patch, stays on the Homey Furnishing invoice.
• Hacking, a new layout, and replacement of toilet finishes inside HDB’s restriction period move to V On Construction Pte. Ltd. UEN 201611708H. The price of that permit scope is quote on inspection.
• A new cable or a consumer unit is an EMA licensed electrician. A new water point is a PUB licensed plumber. Piped gas is a licensed gas worker.
• Window installation and replacement on an HDB flat is a BCA approved window contractor on HDB’s directory, with a renovation permit first. BCA describes workhead RW01. Homey Furnishing is not that contractor.
• Selling, renting or marketing the flat is estate agency work. CEA registers property agents. We do not do that work.
• A weekly cleaner on this site is not a migrant domestic worker placement. We do not hire out helpers.
• Curtains, blinds and roller shades are not part of this booking.

Ways to keep the bill smaller

• Photograph every mark before you book a full repaint. A hole that matches the S$150 to S$280 sentence does not need a whole-flat price.
• Put several permit-exempt tasks on one visit. The S$55 call-out is one task. Further permit-exempt time is S$45 an hour, not a second trip.
• Report a new-flat defect to HDB, or the developer if the contract says so, before you pay anyone to cover it.
• Do not hack a bathroom floor to “save” a later leak. HDB’s three-year restriction exists so the flat below stays dry.
• Photograph the stair from the bottom and the top. A loose rail is a repair. A new opening is not.

WhatsApp the photos to +65 8561 0630.

Height and stairs have rows. The flat type does not add a surcharge.

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.

• Stair repairs
• High-ceiling lights
• Older HDB flats
• Landed interiors
• New stairs
• MCST, if privatised