Keep the BTO kitchen, or replace it as a permit

New flats arrive with a kitchen people either live with or plan to destroy. This service is the choice. Keeping it means hinges from S$38, door alignment, and a sink base at S$280 to S$700 when the leak is fixed and the boxes stay. The kitchen page is those sentences. Replacing the run because the layout changes is S$5,000 to S$6,500 when that comparison matches, and HDB’s renovation page is the permit. V On Construction invoices the permit. A number below S$5,000 that still removes the cabinets is not this row. It is quote on inspection until the photos match.

The OCS note says we do not have HDB’s option prices. If you paid for cabinets you will remove, that was the double payment. We cannot refund it. If you will keep them, do not let a package delete them by default. A stone top is the countertop page: a cutout S$250 to S$550, a quartz run S$1,200 to S$2,500. That is not a stainless top. A stainless top is quote on inspection on the stainless kitchen page.

Hob and hood are the appliance pages. A bought hood is S$140 to S$260 to fit. Gas to induction is the hob guide: appliance S$150 to S$280, cutout S$250 to S$450, and a Licensed Gas Service Worker to cap the pipe. We are not that worker. A dedicated circuit is S$220 to S$450. None of those sit inside the S$280 sink-base row. A quote that bundles them as “kitchen works” should be split. The quote-red-flag note is how.

The bathroom next to the kitchen is not part of the kitchen. The three-year tile rule is the bathroom note. Do not open that floor because the hob moved. A shelter wall is not a cabinet end. Clause 7.2 applies if the kitchen shares that wall. Smell from new cabinets is the formaldehyde guide. We do not say the kitchen is safe for a baby. Defects in the carcass at handover should be reported before we skin them.

Send the layout you want and the layout you have, in photos, not in a style name. Japandi does not change the sink-base row. An open kitchen that removes a wall is a hack and the weekday hours. We do not publish how many weeks a kitchen takes. Curtains are not a kitchen. A move-in package does not include this replacement.

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. Say keep or replace.
2. Photograph the sink base, the hob and the doors.
3. Do not include the bathroom hack.
4. Name gas, stone and power as their own lines.
5. Use S$5,000 to S$6,500 only when the full-layout sentence matches.

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

If the photos show a dry carcass and a sagging door, the visit is the hinge, not a design fee. We will say that. A company that cannot price a hinge without a whole-flat number is the quote note’s first flag.

Disposal of old cabinets, if you do replace them, is not a silent extra. Say whether they leave. We do not publish a truck rate.

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.
• Photograph the sink base and the hob. A soft base is not a reason to hack the bathroom next door.

WhatsApp the photos to +65 8561 0630.

Keep and replace are different rows. OCS is neither.

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.

• Kitchen cabinets
• OCS decisions
• Bathroom restriction
• Hob change
• Reading a quote
• Stainless tops