What to have ready before an assembler arrives

Last updated 31 October 2026.

People search furniture assembly Singapore, then ask what to prepare, how long a PAX takes, and what happens if a screw is missing. The product pages already exist. IKEA assembly, Taobao assembly, PAX, bed frames and sofas each keep their own sentence. This guide is the hour before they arrive. It does not add a same-day surcharge, a duration in hours, or a percentage copied from a retailer’s checkout.

Put every carton in the room where the piece will stand. Building a wardrobe in the living room and then carrying it down an HDB corridor is a second job. The corridor is not a workshop, and it is a fire path. A bed frame is S$80 to S$150 only as assembly of that frame in place. A wardrobe is S$100 to S$650, with the larger multi-door confirmation at S$250 to S$650 inside that range when the photos match. A small side table is S$50 to S$80 only when it is actually small. A wall-width console is quote on inspection, which the custom TV-console page already says.

Keep the fittings bag with the carton it came from. IKEA and Taobao both lose cams in a consolidation warehouse. Count them against the manual before anyone starts. If a part is missing, the visit stops at that panel. We do not fabricate a substitute cam and call it included. We do not turn the half-built carton into a carpenter carcass at the assembly price. Order the spare, or accept quote on inspection for a different fixing. The assembly catalogue is the price list. This page is the condition of the room.

Clear a path from the door to that room. A wet floor, a newly painted wall, and a pile of other cartons in the only turn are how a corner gets chipped. Floor protection is a conversation, not a published materials fee. A parquet chip that matches the floor page is S$250 to S$580 for 1 to 3 square metres. It is not included in assembly. The lift is your booking with the building. We do not publish a truck rate and we do not publish a lift-cabin size. The lift guide is the measurement. Measure this block.

Anchors are part of standing a tall unit up. They go into structure. A hollow partition or a false ceiling that cannot hold the fixing stops the visit. A household shelter wall is refused even if it is the only concrete in the bedroom. There is no second anti-tip price unless the job is the child-gate and anti-tip bundle at S$180 to S$420, which is a preschool scope, not a bedroom bookcase by default. The anti-tip page is that bundle. A TV bracket is the mounting page. Moving a bracket between two homes is S$40 to S$70. That is not assembly of the console.

An office move is the same rule with a different product. A motorised standing desk with monitor arms is S$140 to S$260. Moving that desk is S$180 to S$320. Ten to thirty of them are S$580 to S$1,800. A carpenter bench is quote on inspection on the office custom-furniture page. A new power point is an electrician. HDB’s renovation page is not opened by assembling a carton. A fine of up to $5,000 is for a renovation that breaches those rules. BCA plan approval is not a hex key. Paint should be dry before the piece goes against the wall. We do not publish a number of hours the paint needs. If it is still tacky, say so. Curtains and blinds are not assembled on this visit.

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. Move each carton into its own room.
2. Keep the fittings bag and the manual.
3. Clear the path and say if the floor is new.
4. Mark the shelter wall.
5. Do not expect a custom price when a part is missing.

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

The bill changes when the photo is a different product. A bed is not a wardrobe. A PAX that is still a wardrobe stays inside S$100 to S$650. A walk-in scribed around a beam is the custom wardrobe page and is quote on inspection. A bunk is S$120 to S$200 to assemble, not S$80. Gas struts at S$180 to S$380 are only when a storage bed will not stay up. They are not added because the carton was heavy.

The bill does not change because the brand is IKEA or Taobao. The assembly pages already say the retailer’s own percentage is not ours. Send the panel count, not the checkout screenshot.

A home with one wardrobe and a bed can be those two bands. An office with a run of desks is the desk page, including the rollout when there are ten to thirty. Do not ask the home wardrobe band to cover a bench of six. Cable trunking is inside the desk rows that say so. A new circuit is not.

After-hours access in a managed office is arranged with the building. It is not hidden inside S$140. The mall overnight page is a different product, for a shop that needs a night permit.

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 throw the cardboard away until the cams and dowels have been counted.

WhatsApp the photos to +65 8561 0630.

Every dollar below is an existing assembly or desk row. A missing part is not a new 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.

• Assembly catalogue
• IKEA assembly
• Taobao assembly
• PAX
• Moving house
• Standing desks
• Anti-tip
• Handyman price list