A fire-escape stair is a Qualified Person’s drawing

Fire-escape searches are life-safety searches. A new flight, a replacement flight, or a stair whose width or landings change is quote on inspection. We do not publish a price per storey, a width, or a rise. We also do not inspect a building and declare the escape adequate. The spiral stair page is a domestic or loft flight and is also a quote. A spiral is not a fire escape because it is made of steel.

SCDF’s plan-approval pages say proposed fire safety works require SCDF’s approval, with plans submitted by Qualified Persons on behalf of building owners. Homey Furnishing Pte. Ltd. is not a professional engineer, not an architect, and not a Qualified Person. BCA’s page on works that do not need plan approval says owners should engage a Qualified Person, an architect registered with the Board of Architects or a professional engineer registered with the Professional Engineers Board, with a valid practising certificate. The same page says some minor works are exempt and tells owners to read the First Schedule for the current list. We do not recite that schedule from memory, and we do not sign a structural or fire-safety plan. If you do not have that drawing, we will not start cutting steel and call the result a fire escape.

The door at the bottom of the stair is often the thing that has actually failed. The warehouse handyman page prices an SS 332 panic bar, closer and lever lock at S$380 to S$780, and says the door stays a fire exit. Loading-bay shutter tracks on that page are S$450 to S$1,100. Those are repairs of hardware that exists. They are not a new external stair. A loose handrail on a stair that is staying is S$250 to S$480 on the stair repair page. The 1.0 m barrier sentence on that page is not a fire-escape design.

An HDB common stair is not a private fabrication. HDB’s renovation page is about the flat, including a fine of up to $5,000 when a renovation breaches the rules. It does not appoint us to alter the block’s escape. A household shelter is not an escape stair. A condo escape is the MCST and the fire code, not a balcony railing. A landed external stair is also URA’s landed page if the outside of the house changes. We do not file the planning application.

Send the Qualified Person’s drawing, the storeys, and whether people must keep using the stair while work happens. We do not publish a method for keeping an escape open during a replacement. If the only stair has to close, that is the Qualified Person’s and the building owner’s sequence, not a night rate we invent. Hot works near an exit are refused if they block the door. Curtains, drapes and a backdrop are not a fire escape.

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. Send the Qualified Person’s drawing before asking for a price.
2. Do not ask us to certify the existing stair.
3. Keep panic bars on the warehouse page.
4. Keep a domestic spiral on the spiral page.
5. Expect a quote only when the drawing exists.

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

Steel strings, treads, landings and rails that are drawn. Fixings that the drawing names. It does not include the fire-safety submission, a temporary exit, or a certificate. If the drawing is silent, we ask. We do not fill the silence with a detail of our own and call it code.

A cat ladder that is only a ladder to a roof is the cat-ladder page. If the drawing calls it an escape, it stays on this page and still needs the Qualified Person. The name on the invoice does not change the submission.

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.
• Do not send a photo of a rusty stair and ask us to certify it. Send the drawing, or stop.

WhatsApp the photos to +65 8561 0630.

There is no fire-escape rate. Door hardware is a different visit.

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.

• Spiral stairs
• Exit hardware
• Handrail repair
• Cat ladders
• Metal fabrication
• Approvals
• Handyman price list