No lift, and a lease we do not interpret

Last updated 31 October 2026.

Walk-up, art deco and pre-war apartment searches are about stairs, old tiles, tired wiring and windows. Black-and-white and colonial house searches add a landlord and sometimes a conserved building. We do not keep a list of blocks. We do not state who owns a black-and-white house or what the lease allows. If you are a tenant, get the landlord’s written yes before we fix anything to the building. We are not the landlord and we do not market the house.

Furniture that cannot turn the stair stays downstairs or does not come. The HDB lift guide is the measuring habit, not a claim that a walk-up has a lift. We do not publish a width. A carton wardrobe is S$100 to S$650 to assemble only if it arrives in pieces that pass. A built-in made upstairs is quote on inspection. A loose rail on the common stair may not be yours to repair. Ask. If it is yours and the photo matches, the stair page is S$250 to S$480 for a re-anchor, up to S$1,600 to sand a full private stair. A common stair used by other flats is not a private sanding job.

Old tiles and old wiring follow the old-flat lesson. Do not cover a damp floor. Injection of intact hollow tiles is S$350 to S$750 for four to ten tiles. A small spalling patch is S$150 to S$300. A beam is a Qualified Person. We are not one. A DB in a pre-war flat may be the condo or landed overhaul at S$780 to S$1,150 with the LEW test if that is the board, not the HDB 12-way row. Photograph it. Windows that are original and the building is conserved go to the conservation note. URA says Conservation Permission is required before additions and alterations. Art deco tiles you want to keep should be photographed. We will not jackhammer a sound floor because a board preferred plank.

A colonial house with a long stair and a high hall uses the high-ceiling light bands only when measured: S$380 to S$680 at 4.8 m to 6.0 m. Aircon in a house with rules about the exterior is the landlord’s or URA’s rule if the house is conserved. We will not punch a sleeve and discuss it later. Secondary glazing inside a room for road noise is S$750 to S$2,800 on the sound page. It does not replace a facade window. A black-and-white tenancy that forbids fixings means we do not fix. Loose furniture is the alternative, at the assembly rows.

Holiday use and a second home are still this measuring problem. We do not manage a holiday let. A serviced apartment’s defect list is the condo key-collection page if it is a private unit, not a special hotel rate. Co-living rooms are small rooms. The shoebox note is the storage logic. We do not operate a co-living house. Clause 7.2 applies only if there is a household shelter. Many of these buildings do not have one. Do not import an HDB shelter into a shophouse stair.

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. Measure the tightest stair turn.
2. Get the landlord’s yes if you are a tenant.
3. Check conservation before you remove windows or tiles.
4. Match stair, tile and DB rows only when the photo matches.
5. Do not ask us to interpret the lease.

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

A floor of small tiles that is still stuck down is not a defect because it is old. Hollow tiles that click can be injected. A taste for a new plank is quote on inspection and may be forbidden if the floor is conserved. Photograph a whole bay before anyone lifts one tile “to see”.

Electrical runs on the surface may be the honest repair in a solid wall. Chasing every wall is a mess and may be a conservation item. The DB page is the board. It is not permission to chase a conserved stair.

A walk-up top floor is hot. Film is quote on inspection. A ceiling fan where a point already exists is an electrician if the point is new, and a small fitting job if the point is there. We do not publish a fan price in this note. Do not hang a fan from a spalled slab. The small spalling patch is S$150 to S$300. A slab that is failing is a Qualified Person.

Art deco stairs often have a winder that a wardrobe box will not pass. Test with the box dimensions, not with optimism. If the piece is built upstairs from board that came up in short lengths, say so. That is the quote. A colonial hall table you already own does not need us. A new one scribed to a curved wall does. Bring the curve in a photo with a tape, not a guess. A round wall is not a straight cabinet at all.

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.
• Carry a tape to the tightest turn, not to the landing that looks wide.

WhatsApp the photos to +65 8561 0630.

The building type is not a rate. The stair and the board are.

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.

• Conservation shophouses
• Older flats
• Stair repairs
• Noise
• Measuring a path
• Hollow tiles