Door hinge repair, using the door page’s band

A sagging door shows a wider gap at the top of the latch and a scrape at the bottom. Often the screws have pulled in a soft frame, or the hinge has worn. The door repair page prices alignment or hinge tightening at S$60 to S$120. That is the row this page is allowed to repeat. It includes the visit that lifts and resets that door. It does not include a new leaf, a closer, or a lock. If the screws spin in pulverised timber, the repair may need a longer method than a straight retighten. Send the photo. If it no longer matches the sentence, the answer becomes quote on inspection rather than a silent upgrade of the band.

Cabinet and wardrobe hinges are not this row. The Blum guide prices a Clip Top 110° pair at S$90 to S$180 and a 155° pair at S$120 to S$220, because the stamp on the cup matters. A room door hinge does not have that cup. Do not ask for the cheaper-looking door band on a kitchen door, and do not ask for a Blum price on a bedroom leaf. The pages are split so the two jobs do not cannibalise each other.

HDB main doors are often fire-rated. Tightening a hinge that is part of the original set is maintenance. Planing the leaf so it stops rubbing is not. The drop-seal note on the door page is the same idea: do not cut the leaf. If the hinge is so far gone that the door must come off, we still do not bore new holes in a rated leaf for a different hinge pattern without treating it as a fire-door question. Bedroom doors are the ones that usually are not rated. Say which door. A PD toilet door is another row entirely, S$120 to S$220 for the pivot and roller, and it is not a butt hinge.

Condo entrance doors follow the same fire caution, plus the MCST if the door is a common stair door. Your own entrance is yours to maintain, subject to the rating. Landed front doors may be solid timber that has swollen in the rain. Swollen timber is not always a hinge. A plane on a wet day can be the wrong cut. We would rather ease a hinge and wait for a dry week than cut a door that will shrink later.

Send a photo of the gap, the hinge, and the floor scrape. Three doors in one flat are three times the conversation, not an automatic triple of S$60, because one of them may be a PD door or a cabinet. List them. A tenant who must make good should know the band before the landlord’s inspection. We do not add a call-out on top. None is published.

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.

The priced door catalogue stays on door repair: alignment and hinges, HDB PD pivots, pocket rollers, balcony bogies, veneer patches and surface-mounted drop seals. This page does not replace that list. It only covers the narrower job in the heading.

One photo of the gap tells us whether the published row fits.

1. Photograph the latch gap and each hinge.
2. Say main door, bedroom, toilet PD, or cabinet.
3. Do not plane a fire door while you wait.
4. Use S$60 to S$120 only if the fault is alignment or tightening.
5. If the leaf is split, expect quote on inspection and read the bedroom door page.

Permission changes with the building. The published band does not.

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.

The door repair page owns the priced rows. This page does not invent a second rate.

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.

• Full door repair catalogue
• Cabinet hinges
• When the leaf itself is finished
• PD toilet doors