Frosted film for bathrooms, service yards and corridor glass

Bathrooms in HDB flats often have a top-hung window or a pane facing the service yard. The next flat’s yard, or the corridor, looks back. Frosted film is the vinyl people mean by frosted glass sticker: a diffuse layer on the existing pane so shapes are not clear. Silhouettes can remain if someone stands close. We do not claim the room becomes invisible. Daylight still passes. That is why households choose it instead of blocking the opening.

The same HDB film sentence applies. Placement over existing window glass does not need a renovation permit when the film is non-reflective or not above 20% reflectance. Frosted vinyl is used because it is obscure without being a mirror. We still look at the product before it goes on a facade that the town council or a neighbour can see. A condo bathroom on the elevation is an MCST question if the frost changes the look of the stack. An internal bathroom that does not face out is simpler. Landed bathrooms on the side boundary are filmed from inside.

Louvers and moving blades are the wrong surface. Film cracks where the blade folds, and the gap between blades stays open to view. A casement or a fixed pane can take the vinyl. A sliding panel can take it on the glass, not in the track. Tell us which one you have. If the bathroom window is also the exhaust path, an acrylic panel with a fan is already priced at S$220 to S$420 on the window repair page. That panel is ventilation. Frosted film is not a fan.

Hard-water etch on a shower screen looks frosted and is not this product. The shower-screen page and the bathroom deep-clean page deal with calcium on tempered glass. Window film will not repair an etched screen, and a cream cleaner will not install privacy vinyl. Service-yard glass that has gone chalky from weather is a photo we want before anyone sticks film over failed silicone. Interior reseal is S$180 to S$380 a window when the joint is the leak. Film on a wet, failed joint traps the water.

Office meeting rooms, clinic cubicles and shopfront letters are printed vinyl and frosted bands at eye level. They are the sticker and decal page, because a commercial glass wall is measured differently from a bathroom casement and the building may want the work after hours. Decorative frost patterns for a home door of glass, when the door is not a window sash, are still quote on inspection. They are not curtains.

Homey Furnishing Pte. Ltd. (ACRA UEN 202018148K), 27 Mandai Estate, #06-10 Innovation Place, Singapore 729931, invoices permit-exempt window work done from inside the flat. V On Construction Pte. Ltd. (ACRA UEN 201611708H), on the HDB Directory of Renovation Contractors, invoices an HDB renovation permit when the window scope needs one. The exterior rivets, friction stays, rollers and glass are done by a BCA approved window contractor registered under workhead RW01. Homey Furnishing is not that RW01 contractor.

Curtains, blinds and roller shades are not part of this booking. Fabric is a different product, and these pages do not quote it.

Look from inside the room. Do not lean out to test a stay or a pane.

1. Photograph the bathroom or yard pane from inside.
2. Say whether the blades move.
3. Do not stick film over a leaking joint. Photograph the silicone.
4. If the glass is a shower screen, use the bathroom cleaning page instead.
5. Expect quote on inspection for the vinyl.

Film on existing glass is the HDB line that usually needs no permit. The reflectance cap and the MCST elevation are the parts people miss.

How you're charged

A window job that already has a sentence on HomeySG uses that sentence. Nothing in this table is a fuel surcharge, and the hour is not added on top of a band unless the written scope says so.

Who is allowed to touch the window

HDB’s window-works guidelines require a BCA approved window contractor listed in HDB’s directory for installation and replacement, and an HDB renovation permit before that work starts. BCA registers that contractor under workhead RW01. Retrofitting replaces aluminium rivets in variable-geometry stays with type 304 stainless steel. Homey Furnishing does not issue that rivet.

• Interior silicone or PU reseal, at S$180 to S$380 a window, is the exempt interior job on the window repair page.
• A handle at S$60 to S$120 is that published row. A failed stay or rivet is not a handle.
• Film on intact glass is not a sash replacement. On an HDB flat, film over existing window or balcony-door glass does not need a permit when it is non-reflective or not above 20% reflectance.
• Service-yard and balcony parapet grilles need a permit. Flats handed over from 1 July 2007 use HDB’s approved grille designs. Older blocks may take an internal grille that does not protrude, without that permit.
• A condo facade is the MCST’s elevation. Reflective film, a grille and an external screen are uniformity questions before anyone sticks or drills.
• Curtains, blinds and roller shades are not quoted here.
• Nobody leans out of the casement. High glass is cleaned from inside.

Ways to keep the bill smaller

• Photograph every opening before a film roll, a mesh panel or a grille is cut. A wrong reflectance or a wrong grille design is a wasted visit.
• Put the windows in one room on the same visit. A second trip is a second booking.
• If the track is only dirty, the published clean is S$60 to S$100. That is not a new roller.
• If the stay is rusty, stop. Film and a child lock on a failing sash do not make it safe. The approved contractor comes first.
• Film a flat pane. A bathroom louver with moving blades is a poor surface for vinyl.

WhatsApp the photos to +65 8561 0630.

No film, sticker or frosted-vinyl price is published on HomeySG. The rows below are neighbouring window jobs, so a heat film is not quietly billed as a reseal.

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.

• One-way film, if daytime privacy is enough
• Office glass, stickers and decals
• Reseal, or a toilet exhaust panel
• Window film overview
• Shower-screen etch, a different cloud
• Window child-safety locks