Three metals, three quotes, no kilogram price

Last updated 31 October 2026.

Comparison searches ask which metal is best for a gate, a planter, a furniture leg or a patio chair. Retailers answer with outdoor furniture. Coating plants answer with tanks and colours. This note only routes the job to a page that already exists, and it refuses the numbers those other sites print. Homey Furnishing is not a mill and not a powder-coating plant.

Mild steel is the metal fabrication page when the piece is a new gate, a frame or a bracket in steel. A dropped hinge on a leaf that can be propped stays S$180 to S$350, including primer on that repair, on the autogate page. A full powder coat on a new gate is inside the new-piece quote. We do not publish a colour list. Stainless is the stainless page. That page already refuses a 304-versus-316 surcharge. We will not add one here. Aluminium is the aluminium page. Window frames that must be replaced on an HDB flat stay with an approved window contractor. We are not that contractor.

Powder coating versus galvanising is a plant question. The sheet-metal page already says outdoor powder coat, if you want it, is inside the quote, and that galvanising plants sell hot-dip by their own tariff. We will not invent a price per tonne or a micron. “Can you paint galvanised steel?” and “what cannot be powder coated?” are questions for the plant that will do the tank or the booth. We are not that plant. A fabricator and a coater are different companies unless the quote you are reading says one firm is doing both. If ours does not say that, the coat is either inside our quote as a finish we arrange, or it is your arrangement with the plant. Ask which, in writing, before you compare two numbers that are not the same scope.

Homey Furnishing Pte. Ltd. is not a professional engineer, not an architect, and not a Qualified Person. BCA’s page on works that do 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, holding a valid practising certificate. We do not sign a structural calculation and we do not decide that a frame is exempt. If the work is building work, the owner asks that person. We quote the metal after the answer is clear, or we stop. Strength, marine grade and “will not rust” are claims we do not print. Singapore rain rusts unprotected mild steel. That is a reason to talk about a finish, not a reason for us to promise a life in years. No warranty in years is published on these pages. A planter, a furniture leg and a solar frame each have their own quote page. They do not share a kilogram rate.

Gates are the crowded search. A new leaf is quote on inspection. Welding is not a new leaf. Aluminium versus steel for a gate is already the aluminium and metal pages. This note does not add a third gate price. Railings that only need a re-anchor are S$250 to S$480. A new rail is the railing fabrication page.

HDB’s renovation page is a flat, not a hall. A fine of up to $5,000 is HDB’s sentence when a renovation breaches those rules. It is not an exhibition overtime fee, and we do not publish one. URA’s landed page says planning permission is not required for gates, walls, fences and other enclosures not higher than 1.8 m. We do not certify the height. The metal does not change that sentence. A new pavilion is not a fence and not a coating choice.

Send the place and the job. “Outdoor, planter, 1.2 m long” can be quoted. “Which metal is best?” cannot, because best is not a dimension. If you have already chosen, say the metal. If you have not, we can quote options. The options are still quotes. They are not a test report.

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 piece, not the medal.
2. Pick mild steel, stainless or aluminium, or ask for options as quotes.
3. Keep coating inside the piece or with the plant.
4. Use the repair row if the piece already exists.
5. Do not ask for a kilogram price.

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

Patio-furniture shops rank for “mild steel versus aluminium outdoor furniture”. Coating traders rank for powder coat versus galvanising. We do not resell their chairs or their tanks. If you want a chair from a shop, buy it there. If you want a frame made to a size, use the fabrication pages.

Anodising and PVD appeared in related questions. We do not publish a comparison or a price for either. If your drawing names them, the plant that offers them prices them. We will not guess.

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.
• Say the place: indoors, a wet kitchen, or rain. Do not ask which metal never fails.

WhatsApp the photos to +65 8561 0630.

No metal on this page has a kilogram price. Repairs that match a row stay on that row.

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.

• Mild steel and general metal
• Stainless
• Aluminium
• Sheet metal and coatings
• Drawings, no lead time
• Handyman price list