The lift, the stair, and the piece that has to be built inside

Last updated 31 October 2026.

The small-HDB guide is about living with the piece. This page is about the day it moves. People ask whether a sofa will enter an HDB lift, whether stairs are allowed, and who carries a custom table. We will not answer with a cabin size. HDB blocks were built with different lifts. Measure the clear door and the turn into the corridor, then the flat door. If you have not measured, say so. A workshop that has already glued a top you cannot turn is not cheaper. The size guide is how the piece should have been drawn. This page is the path that drawing ignored.

We are not the mover. The move-day pages on this site already say to hire your own truck. We do not publish their rate. What we can do is assemble a carton once it is in the room: a bed frame at S$80 to S$150, a storage bed or bunk at S$120 to S$200, a wardrobe at S$100 to S$650, a small item at S$50 to S$80. Carrying a built wardrobe down a corridor because the cartons were opened in the wrong room is a second job. Put the cartons where the piece will stand. A carpenter piece that must be built in the room because it cannot pass is quote on inspection. It is not those bands.

Stairs are the landed and the walk-up problem, and some HDB blocks still have a stair that is tighter than the lift. A long top dies on a half-landing. Say if the lift is out of service on the day you booked. We will not promise to carry a stone top up a stair because the lift failed. A sintered-stone dining top is not the kitchen cutout price. Its path is part of the quote. If the path is impossible, the quote says so before the top is ordered.

Taking a built-in out is the reverse, and it is harder. Dismantling is quote on inspection. A carcass screwed to the wall can be a strip-out and an HDB permit, invoiced by V On Construction. HDB’s renovation page and the fine of up to $5,000 apply when a renovation breaches the rules. A loose frame is not that renovation. Town councils often will not take an undismantled built-in as bulky waste. The bulky guide is the rule for your town. Do not stand the panels in the common corridor. That corridor is a fire path. Clause 7.2 still refuses new screws into a shelter wall while you are “just holding it”.

Floor protection and lift protection are the building’s rules and your photos. A condo MCST may require pads and a deposit. That deposit is not a furniture price. A chip in parquet from a corner is the floor page at S$250 to S$580 for 1 to 3 square metres when that matches. It is not included in assembly. Check the piece before it enters, which is the delivery checklist. BCA plan approval is not a sofa in a lift. A new opening cut so the sofa fits would be.

Old furniture that must leave before the new piece arrives is a sequence, not a free haul. Book the council or your mover first. We will not dismantle a wardrobe the landlord owns. Read the tenancy. The rental guide is that limit. Curtains are not packed with the timber.

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. Measure this lift door and the tightest turn.
2. Say carton or carpenter piece.
3. Hire the truck yourself. We do not publish a rate.
4. Do not open cartons in the wrong room.
5. If it cannot pass, ask about building it inside before it is glued.

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

A table with a loose top still has a top. If the top is one slab wider than the door, the bolts do not help. A sofa with removable legs may still have a frame that will not turn. Ask for the largest single part, not the assembled size. Write that width next to your lift door.

A wardrobe flat-pack is panels. Those panels can be long. A 2.4 metre side that will not go in the lift does not become shorter because it is in a carton. Measure the longest panel if the seller will tell you. If they will not, do not assume.

Most built-ins were scribed to one wall. They will not fit the next alcove. Unscrewing them can wreck the scribe and the plaster. The honest line is often to leave them, if the contract says they stay, or to dismantle for disposal, which is quote on inspection. Rebuilding the same boxes in a new flat is a new quote, not a delivery.

A loose bookcase that was anchored can move. Patching the holes it leaves can be the small hole patch at S$150 to S$280 when that ceiling-page sentence matches. The next flat still needs a new anchor into structure, not into a shelter wall.

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 size from another block is not a measurement. Write the door you stood in front of.

WhatsApp the photos to +65 8561 0630.

Assembly is for cartons in the room. Carrying and trucks are not priced here.

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.

• Small rooms
• Sizing
• Check it on the way in
• Dismantling
• Carton assembly
• Bulky disposal
• Rental flats
• Custom furniture
• Handyman price list