Anti-tip anchors for tall wardrobes and shelves

Anti-tip straps and furniture anchors are searched because a child, a cat or an earthquake drill video made a tall PAX look dangerous. The danger is real. The price has to stay honest. The furniture assembly page says tall units are wall-anchored on the same visit. If we are assembling the wardrobe, the anchor is part of that visit and is not given a new line. If the wardrobe is already built and you only want straps added, there is no standalone strap price. Quote on inspection, unless the photo is the published bundle: a child safety gate and wall-to-stud cabinet anti-tip anchoring at S$180 to S$420. That bundle is written on the preschool and clinic page. It is a gate plus anchors, not a single nylon strap, and it is not a price we split in half.

IKEA Singapore says its assembly service includes installation of a tip-over restraint, and that it does not assemble on false ceilings and partition walls. Their per-hole drilling note is theirs. We do not charge their hole fee. We also do not anchor into a false ceiling, a hollow partition that has no stud or no masonry behind it, or a household shelter wall. The permit guide already keeps TV brackets and shelves off the shelter. A wardrobe strap is the same refusal. If we cannot find structure, we stop. A strap into plasterboard alone is how the fixing pulls out when the wardrobe starts to tip.

HDB and condo rules are about the drilling, not about a special anchor tax. Noisy drilling in an HDB flat stays in the weekday daytime window. A condo MCST can ban Saturday drilling and can ask what you are fixing to a structural wall. Interior bedroom anchors are usually ordinary. Facade and beam drilling are not. Tile needs the right method. The drilling page and the tile-drilling guide are the place for a tiled wall. We do not publish a per-hole rate. A grab bar you supply is S$65 to S$80 on the grab-bar page. That is a bathroom bar, not a wardrobe strap. Do not use it as the anti-tip price.

What else is nearby and should not be confused. A floating shelf first install has no catalogue row on the shelf page. A shelf transferred to a second address is S$30 to S$55. Picture hanging is quote on inspection. A TV bracket transfer between homes is S$40 to S$70. None of those is an anti-tip strap. A PAX assembly at S$100 to S$650 already contemplates the anchor when the unit is tall and the visit is assembly. Adding S$180 to S$420 on top of a wardrobe assembly would double-charge unless the scope is genuinely the gate bundle as well.

Humidity does not change the physics, but it changes the wall. A damp external wall can have a soft skim. The anchor still has to reach something solid. Termite-damaged timber skirting is not a fixing point. If the skirting is soft, read the termite page before you hide it behind a wardrobe. We will not screw a safety strap into frass.

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. Say whether the furniture is being assembled now or is already standing.
2. Mark the shelter wall so nobody drills it.
3. Do not accept a strap fixed only to a thin back panel.
4. Use S$180 to S$420 only when the gate and the anchors are both the job.
5. Otherwise expect the assembly visit to include the anchor, or quote on inspection for straps alone.

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

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 screw a strap into the wardrobe back panel only. The panel tears out and the wardrobe still tips.

WhatsApp the photos to +65 8561 0630.

Only one anti-tip dollar amount is published, and it is a bundle. Assembly does not add a second one.

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.

• PAX assembly and anchors
• Assembly catalogue
• Gate and anti-tip bundle
• Drilling
• Drilling tile
• HDB handyman rules
• Condo by-laws
• Handyman price list