A custom bookshelf is a carcass or a quote, not a S$50 cube

Custom bookshelf and bookcase searches ask for a price per shelf and a built-in price. Workshops print both. HomeySG does not. A KALLAX cube, or any short shelf that is really a small item, is S$50 to S$80 on the assembly page. A KALLAX that has become a room divider the width of the wall is quote on inspection. The assembly page already says so. This page is the carpenter bookcase: an alcove, a run beside a study table, or a floor-to-ceiling unit that is not a wardrobe. If it is a wardrobe with a hanging rail, use the wardrobe page instead of renaming it a bookcase to chase a cheaper word.

Wall shelves are the other confusion. The wall shelf page does not publish a first-install price. The S$30 to S$55 figure is a bracket set taken down and refitted at a second address. A floating shelf is also quote on inspection. A concealed rail is not that transfer. If you want a rail on the plaster and not a floor carcass, use those pages. If you want a back panel, adjustable pins and a plinth, you are on this page, and the line is quote on inspection.

Sag is the failure that photos hide. A long shelf in particle board, loaded with art books, bends between the supports. Plywood of a different thickness does not automatically fix a span that is too long. Send the clear span and say whether the load is paperbacks or a row of files. We will not publish a span table we have not measured, and we will not copy a workshop’s “maximum span” into this catalogue. The materials guide explains why MDF, particle board and plywood do not share one stiffness. It does not add a board price.

Tall bookcases fall. Anchoring into structure is part of an assembly visit when the unit is being built or stood up. There is no second anti-tip line unless the job is the child-gate and anti-tip bundle at S$180 to S$420, which is a preschool and clinic scope, not a living-room bookcase by default. A hollow partition or a false ceiling is refused when the fixing cannot reach structure. SCDF clause 7.2 refuses the household shelter wall. Do not ask for a bookcase “into the shelter” because the alcove looks convenient. HDB’s renovation page matters if the bookcase is a built-in strip-out or a hacked niche. A loose carcass does not need that permit. The fine of up to $5,000 is for a renovation that breaches the rules, not for standing a loose shelf in a room. BCA plan approval is not a bookcase.

Doors and glass on a bookcase are hardware, not a new price list. A sagging door is the hinge page, from S$38 a door for a generic hinge, or a Blum pair at the published bands when the cup matches. Glass shelves need a thickness and a span. We will not guess the glass from a photo of the books. A small hole where an old rail came out can be the hole patch at S$150 to S$280 when that ceiling-page sentence matches. A dark feature wall may need more than that sentence. Say so. Curtains beside the bookcase are not included.

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 cube, wall rail, floating shelf, or carpenter bookcase.
2. Write the span and the load.
3. Mark the shelter wall and any hollow partition.
4. Do not call a wardrobe a bookcase to change the page.
5. Expect a printed band only when the photo is that band.

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

A shelf above a study table is often drawn as one piece of furniture. If the top is a carpenter study table, that page is the top, and this page is the bookcase, and both are quote on inspection. They are not added into a package rate. Files need a vertical height that paperbacks do not. Write it. A shelf spacing copied from a novel and then asked to hold ring binders fails on day one.

If the unit has doors to the floor and a hanging section, it is a wardrobe. The wardrobe assembly band is S$100 to S$650 for a flat-pack, and a custom wardrobe is quote on inspection on that page. Renaming it does not change the band.

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.
• A long shelf sags. Send the span and what will sit on it. We will not guess the board thickness from a photo of the books.

WhatsApp the photos to +65 8561 0630.

Small cubes and a house-move transfer are the printed shelf rows. A carpenter bookcase is quote on inspection.

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.

• Wall shelves
• Floating shelves
• Cube shelf assembly
• Study tables
• Wardrobes
• Anti-tip anchoring
• Materials and sag
• Custom furniture
• Handyman price list