Door lock replacement without treating every door as a bedroom

Lock replacement searches mix a tired bedroom knob, a digital lock on an HDB main door, and a gate. They do not share a price. The digital-lock guide is the owner of the fire-door rules and of the bands: S$188 to S$320 to fit a suitable lock you bought, S$280 to S$450 supply and fit, and S$160 to S$350 to reinstate bore holes at the end of a tenancy. Those figures apply only when the fire detail allows the holes. This page repeats them so you do not land on a second, cheaper number. It does not replace the guide.

A mechanical lock on a bedroom or bathroom door is not those bands. No knob, cylinder or mortise price is published. Quote on inspection after a photo of the edge, the existing cylinder, and whether the door is fire-rated. If the door also sags, the hinge row on the door repair page is S$60 to S$120 and can be the real fault. People replace locks because the latch misses, when the hinge has dropped. Look at the gap before you buy a lock.

We do not bypass locks. A lost key with nobody in danger is not 995 and not a drill. The locked-out guide says that. After you are in by a legitimate route, we can replace hardware. A corridor offer to drill a fire door is the offer to refuse. Proof you live there matters before anyone opens a door that is not yours. We will not write a how-to for forcing a cylinder.

Condo entrance doors can be rated too. Ask the MCST before a new bore. Landed gates are often a different lock from the timber door behind them. A car-gate motor is the autogate page, not a cylinder. HDB letterbox locks are the letterbox pages. Do not bring a main-door digital lock price to a letterbox.

Send the door type, a photo of the edge, and the lock you already bought if you bought one. If the box is a digital lock, read the fire statement before the appointment. If the seller cannot produce it, do not drill. Homey Furnishing invoices the permit-exempt hardware. Cutting a leaf is not exempt maintenance.

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.

1. Photo the door edge and say main, bedroom, bathroom, gate or letterbox.
2. If it is a digital lock, read the fire-door guide before you buy.
3. If the latch misses, photo the hinge gap as well.
4. Do not drill, and do not pay someone who starts with a drill.
5. Use the published digital-lock bands only when they match. Otherwise quote on inspection.

The lock follows the door. A fire door, a bedroom door and a gate are three products. The town does not change the band.

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.

Priced door rows stay on the door repair page. Unlisted parts are quote on inspection.

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.

• Door repair catalogue
• Fire-door digital locks
• Knobs, a narrower part
• Locked out