Regrouting a bathroom, at the tile page’s band

Grout fails when it cracks and holds mould. Raking it out and packing new grout is the tile page’s row: regrouting a typical HDB bathroom, S$400 to S$900. “Typical HDB bathroom” is the fence around the number. A small cloakroom and a large condo bathroom are not the same area. If your room is obviously not that sentence, we will not force the band. Quote on inspection is the honest overflow. This page exists so the search “bathroom regrouting” lands on the sentence instead of a new price list that competes with the tile page.

Silicone is the joint at the bath, the floor perimeter and the screen. It is not grout. The defect calculator’s mouldy zone is S$80 to S$150. A room that needs both grout and silicone should say both. We will not hide the silicone inside the regrout sentence. A single cracked tile with a spare is S$80 to S$180. Replacing grout around a cracked tile does not fix the crack.

Hollow and tented tiles are the other search that arrives here. Injection through the grout line is S$350 to S$750 for four to ten intact tiles. Tented tiles that must be lifted are S$550 to S$1,200 on the tile page. Lifting them in a new BTO bathroom can break the restriction on hacking. Read that page before you book a “regrout” that is actually a hack. We will not lift a restricted floor and call it grout.

Preparation is the quality. Old grout has to come out to a depth that lets the new grout lock. A smear of grout paint is not this row. The room is dusty. Cover the corridor. HDB work of this kind is noisy enough to book on a weekday. Condo management may want the same. The shower stays dry while grout cures. We will not promise you can shower the same evening.

Send a wide photo and a close photo of the worst joint. Say the flat type. If the grout is only black in the shower screen joint, you may be on the silicone page instead, and the bill will be smaller if the zone sentence fits. We would rather move you to the cheaper true row than sell a bathroom regrout you do not need. Bring a spare tile if you have one from the original box.

Homey Furnishing Pte. Ltd. (ACRA UEN 202018148K), 27 Mandai Estate, #06-10 Innovation Place, Singapore 729931, invoices the permit-exempt visit. V On Construction Pte. Ltd. (ACRA UEN 201611708H), on the HDB Directory of Renovation Contractors, invoices hacking, a new layout, windows that are not exempt, and the household shelter. Homey Furnishing is not a MOM-licensed employment agency and does not place helpers, nannies or caregivers.

1. Photo the field, not one corner only.
2. Say HDB, condo or landed, and whether the bathroom is typical or large.
3. Separate silicone joints from grout lines.
4. Tap for hollow tiles before you assume a rake is enough.
5. Use S$400 to S$900 only when the tile page’s sentence fits.

The building changes permission. It does not change a band that already has a sentence, and it does not fill a blank.

How you're charged

These four lines are the published handyman charges. A job that already has its own band uses that band. The hour is not added on top of a band unless the written scope says so. There is no fuel surcharge.

Small, medium, and large visits

Times are planning estimates for the work itself. They are not a promise of when someone arrives.

What a handyman can't do

Permit-exempt fittings stay on the Homey Furnishing invoice. These do not:

• A new cable, a new circuit, or a consumer unit. That is an EMA licensed electrician. A socket on an existing circuit is the S$55 row. A dedicated appliance circuit stays S$220 to S$450.
• A new or relocated water point, or a hacked chase. That is a PUB licensed plumber. Tap labour on the existing outlet is S$55.
• Piped gas. That is a Licensed Gas Service Worker.
• Hacking, a new layout, or the household shelter. That is an HDB renovation permit through V On Construction Pte. Ltd. UEN 201611708H.
• A hole in a fire-rated door that the fire detail does not allow.
• Common-corridor lights, stacks, and letterbox banks. Those follow the town council on the S&CC bill, or the MCST in a condo.

Handyman vs licensed contractor

Ways to keep the bill smaller

• Put several tasks on one visit. The S$55 call-out is one task. Extra permit-exempt time is S$45 an hour, not a second trip.
• Buy the part when the row is labour only. Tap labour is S$55. Toilet-bowl labour is S$168. Instant-heater labour is S$108 to S$260. Exposed storage-heater labour is S$188 to S$380.
• Send the photos first, so the reply can use a published band instead of a vague hour.

WhatsApp the photos to +65 8561 0630.

Published rows only. A missing row is quote on inspection, not a rounded guess.

Anything not in that table is quote on inspection. A second trade, when the law requires one, is named. It is not folded into a handyman hour.

WhatsApp the photos to +65 8561 0630. The reply uses a band already printed on HomeySG, or it says quote on inspection. It does not invent a third number in the chat.

• Tile repair, where the regrout price lives
• Silicone, if it is the bead
• Hollow tiles
• If the membrane has failed