Handyman work in a home where an older person lives

Families search “handyman for elderly” when a parent is unsteady and the flat has not caught up. The useful work is physical and limited: a bar beside the toilet, a door that no longer needs a shove, a light that is not a dark trip, a towel bar at a height the parent can reach. The work that is not ours is bathing, medicine, transfers from the bed, and overnight sitting. Homey Furnishing Pte. Ltd. is not a MOM-licensed employment agency. The housekeeping page for a household with an elderly parent says the same thing and points personal care to a licensed agency or a care provider you choose.

The grab-bar page is the priced bathroom hardware. A first bar that you supply is S$65 to S$80. A private condo or landed hospital-to-home bathroom bundle on that page is S$380 to S$780. Those figures are bars and related bathroom hardware, not a carer. Tell us whether the parent will be home, which wall is tile, and whether a doctor or occupational therapist has already said where the bar should go. We will not invent a clinical assessment. If you have a diagram from the therapist, send it. If you do not, we can still fit a bar you chose, and we will say if the tile sounds hollow before we drill.

Doors matter more than families expect. A toilet door that sticks is a fall when someone pushes and stumbles. HDB PD slide-and-swing doors have their own row, S$120 to S$220 for the pivot and roller, on the door repair page. A ordinary hinge that has dropped is S$60 to S$120. A bedroom door replacement, if the leaf itself is finished, is quote on inspection. We will not plane a fire-rated main door to make it swing more easily. The fire door stays certified or it gets a proper replacement, not a quiet trim.

Reach and light are the other two hazards we can actually fix. A towel bar or a robe hook at shoulder height for a seated person is quote on inspection, because no catalogue row prices a towel bar. Say the height you want and the wall type. A light on an existing point may be the fan and light pages. A new switch position, if it needs a new cable, is an electrician at the circuit band of S$220 to S$450 only when a new circuit is really required. Moving a switch “a little lower” is often a new length of cable. It is not a handyman courtesy.

While we are in the flat we will not move the parent from a chair, and we will not ask them to hold a ladder. Clear the bathroom before the drill. If a live-in helper is already employed through a proper agency, she does not need to supervise the tools. Housework, if you want it, is the part-time maid page at the published visit rates, booked separately from the bar. Mixing a cleaner’s hour with a grab bar on one vague invoice is how both jobs get described badly.

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.

Write the hazard, not the word elderly. The fitting is what we can price.

1. Separate personal care from hardware. Care is not this visit.
2. If a therapist has marked a wall, send that sketch.
3. Use the grab-bar page for bars and the door page for a sticking toilet door.
4. Keep the parent out of the bathroom while tile is drilled.
5. Book housework, if you need it, on the part-time maid page rather than as a carer.

HDB bathrooms are often tight, with a PD door and a tiled wall over a hollow spot. Drill only where the tile sounds solid, and do not open the household shelter to “make space.” Condo bathrooms may need a shutdown if a valve is part of the same visit, and the MCST may want to know about drilling. Landed bathrooms are where the larger bundle on the grab-bar page, S$380 to S$780, is written. A small HDB flat should not be quoted that bundle by habit.

If the parent is in hospital and the flat is being prepared for discharge, say the date. We still will not move them on discharge day. The hardware should be finished before they come home, which means photos this week rather than the morning of discharge.

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.

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.

Only the hardware rows. There is no caregiver fee in this table.

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.

• Grab bars
• Housekeeping, not a caregiver
• Door repair
• Part-time cleaning, booked separately
• Housekeeping versus a live-in helper