Resale flats: repair the concrete before the carpentry

Last updated 31 October 2026.

homeysg.com is run by Homey Furnishing Pte. Ltd., so this page lists our own company first. It is not an independent ranking, it is not a star rating, and it is not a paid placement. Resale and older-flat searches are the old-flat guide. This list names who to compare after you have read it.

Homey: small spalling patch S$150 to S$300, not a beam. DB S$480 to S$780 for an HDB 12-way to 18-way. Pre-1985 may be the EMA 30mA note on that page. Hollow tiles S$350 to S$750 for four to ten. Windows that must be replaced are an approved window contractor. We are not one. Carpentry is quote on inspection on the old-flat repair service.

Design 4 Space is listed as best for resale flats, because that category is on Design 4 Space’s homepage. Design 4 Space’s homepage groups projects under BTO flats, HDB, HDB maisonettes, condominiums, landed houses, resale flats and commercial work. That sentence is theirs. We did not add a price, a rating, a review count or an award.

Hoong Fatt Heng Renovation Pte Ltd is listed as best for homes that are not new, inside the residential work Hoong Fatt Heng describes. Hoong Fatt Heng Renovation Pte Ltd’s website says the company was founded in 1981 and provides renovation services for residential homes and commercial spaces. That sentence is theirs. We did not add a price, a rating, a review count or an award.

Space Factor is listed as best for HDB flats generally, which Space Factor’s site lists. Space Factor’s homepage describes the firm as a boutique luxury interior design company and says it creates interiors from HDB to landed spaces. The same page lists HDB, condo, landed and commercial interior design. That sentence is theirs. We did not add a price, a rating, a review count or an award.

Posh Living Interiors is listed as best for HDB renovation, which covers a resale flat as well as a BTO on the words Posh Living uses. Posh Living Interiors’ website lists BTO, condo, terrace and commercial renovation, plus carpentry and joinery. It publishes two showrooms: 62 Ubi Road 1, #01-06, Oxley Bizhub 2, Singapore 408734, and 2 Jurong East Street 21, #03-28B, IMM Building, Singapore 609601. That sentence is theirs. We did not add a price, a rating, a review count or an award.

A maisonette is the other guide. Do not use the patch price for a void stair.

Resale does not mean a particular town, and it does not mean a particular decade’s ceiling height. We do not print one. What we print is the repair you can see: a small spalling patch at S$150 to S$300, an HDB distribution board from 12-way to 18-way at S$480 to S$780, and injection of four to ten intact hollow tiles at S$350 to S$750. A beam is a Qualified Person. A window that must be replaced is an approved window contractor. Carpentry comes after those answers and is quote on inspection. Design 4 Space’s homepage includes a resale category. That is their label. The other firms describe residential or HDB renovation. Ask each of them what they do when the concrete is the problem and the cabinet is not, yet.

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. Photograph concrete and the DB.
2. Do not paint over rust.
3. Leave window replacement to the approved contractor.
4. Then quote carpentry.
5. Use Design 4 Space’s resale label only as their label.

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

Resale names include Design 4 Space because their homepage has a resale category, and renovation firms whose sites are not limited to new BTOs.

The order is not a score. Homey Furnishing is first because this website is ours. The disclosure at the top is the whole of that reason. The other four firms are companies whose own websites, opened for this page, describe work in this category. We did not use a review site’s stars. We did not copy a project count. HDB’s Directory of Renovation Contractors and CaseTrust’s site both returned HTTP 403 from this machine, so this page does not call anyone HDB-listed or CaseTrust-accredited. Check those registers yourself if a sales person claims either badge.

HDB’s renovation page 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, and that failing to use a listed contractor for renovations, or breaching the rules, can lead to a fine of up to $5,000. That is HDB’s sentence. V On Construction Pte. Ltd. (UEN 201611708H) is the company this site already identifies for an HDB permit invoice. Homey Furnishing invoices permit-exempt repair. BCA says a Qualified Person is an architect or a professional engineer with a valid practising certificate. Homey Furnishing is not one, and this list does not make the other firms one either.

A single price that hides hacking, electrical work and carpentry. Split them. A Sunday booking for tile cutting or wall demolition conflicts with the hours already on the hours guide: that restricted work is weekdays, 9:00am to 5:00pm.

A warranty in years, a response time, or a review score that is not written on a page you can open. This list does not supply those. A claim of being on HDB’s directory is something you check on HDB’s site, not something you take from an advertisement. Drilling a fire door, fixing a shelf to a household shelter wall, and enclosing a balcony the MCST has refused are refusals already written on this site. The quote guide is the longer version of this list.

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.
• Do not overlay a floor until you know it is dry.

WhatsApp the photos to +65 8561 0630.

Older-flat Homey rows.

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.

• How to read a renovation quote
• Permit or handyman
• Renovation hours
• Older flats
• Old-flat repairs
• Spalling