Surface cable management, not a hidden new circuit

Television walls in Singapore collect HDMI, aerial, soundbar and a power strip. The tidy version is surface trunking painted as close as the plastic allows, or clips along the skirting, using sockets that already exist. That visit is quote on inspection. We do not publish a per-metre trunking rate. The untidy version that people ask for next is a chase in the plaster so the cable vanishes. A chase is hacking. In an HDB flat, hacking is the permit route through V On Construction, not a handyman extra on a Saturday.

Power is the line we will not blur. A new socket on a new circuit is the DB page: S$220 to S$450 when it is actually a dedicated appliance circuit. A like-for-like faceplate on a sound existing point is quote on inspection, not that circuit price. An extension lead that is warm is not something to enclose in trunking. Trunking over a hot lead is how a tidy wall hides a fire. We will say so and we will not clip it away.

Data cables are not power, and they are still not a chase. The home-network page on this site is the longer Cat6 and projector conversation. This page is the visible loom behind the console. Condo TV walls sometimes belong to a design that the MCST cares about only if we are drilling the slab. Surface trunking on your own wall is usually quiet work. Drilling a row of clips into concrete is not quiet, and it returns to the weekday rule.

Aircon trunking is a different trade and a different page. Do not ask this visit to extend refrigerant trunking or to repaint the external run down an HDB facade. Facades and windows have their own rules. Interior low-voltage clips do not give us the facade.

Send a photo of the whole pile, not one plug, and include the skirting so we can see whether clips have a straight run. A pile that crosses a doorway needs a different path from a pile that stays behind the console. Say which cables must stay unplugged for a tenant’s router. We will not disconnect a fibre terminal that belongs to the carrier. If the job is “make it look like the renovation render,” and the render showed cables inside the wall, that render was a hack. We will price the surface version or we will stop.

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.

Say surface or hidden. Hidden is usually a different trade.

1. Photograph the entire cable pile and the nearest real socket.
2. List any lead that runs hot.
3. Do not ask for a chase unless you are ready for a permit.
4. Keep aircon trunking and fibre terminals out of the request.
5. Expect quote on inspection for surface trunking.

HDB living rooms are the usual photo. A chase there is the permit. Condo feature walls may already contain conduits from the renovation. If a conduit exists and is empty, say so. We will not assume. Landed media rooms with a purpose-built rack are still quote on inspection.

Offices and shops should say commercial. A mall unit at night is the mall page, not a living-room clip price.

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.

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.

No first-install price is published for this object.

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.

• Sockets
• Network cabling
• Aircon trunking
• When a chase needs a permit