HDB handyman work that stays inside the flat

HDB flats are where most of these searches start, and they are also where a handyman is most often asked to do something the town council or a permit should own. Your flat’s hinge, your valve, your silicone and your hairline crack after a leak is fixed are private. The corridor light, the choked common soil stack, and the lift are not. The Town Councils (Declaration) Order 2025 names the council for each constituency. The S&CC bill is the copy you can hold. Do not pay a private invoice for a pipe the council is already responsible for.

Permit-exempt is not “anything with a drill.” The permit guide on this site separates works that stay on the existing layout from hacking, new kitchens and bathrooms, windows that need an approved contractor, and the household shelter. Homey Furnishing Pte. Ltd. UEN 202018148K invoices the exempt visit. V On Construction Pte. Ltd. UEN 201611708H invoices the permit. A shelf in a partition may be exempt drilling. A shelf that opens the shelter wall is not a handyman extra. The shelter is a civil-defence element. We will not chase an anchor into it to hang a bike.

Noise is the practical HDB limit even when no permit is required. The permit guide describes noisy hacking and heavy drilling as weekday daytime work, about 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday. A Saturday floating shelf in a living-room RC wall is the job that gets a complaint and a stop. Plan drilling for a weekday morning. Quiet work, such as a hinge at S$60 to S$120 or a silicone zone at S$80 to S$150, does not need that window in the same way. Say which one you are booking so the slot matches the tool.

Older HDB blocks, especially 1970s to 1990s slab and point blocks, add spalling on toilet and kitchen ceilings. A small spalling patch is S$150 to S$300 on the ceiling page, after loose concrete is dealt with as that page describes. A hairline crack or a water stain, once the leak has actually stopped, is S$150 to S$400. Painting a live leak is how the stain returns. If the leak is from the flat above, the ceiling-leak guide explains the shared slab. We make good the paint after the source is fixed. We do not pretend to be HDB’s leak officer.

BTO flats in the defects period are a third category. A defect that is still the developer’s is not a handyman band you should pay twice. Photograph it for the developer first. A fitting you have broken after key collection, such as a hinge you overloaded, is yours. The 3-year restriction on hacking bathroom tiles in a new BTO is why hollow tiles are injected through the grout, at S$350 to S$750 for four to ten intact tiles, rather than hacked out. Read the tile page before anyone lifts a floor in a new bathroom.

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.

Three questions decide an HDB booking. Skip one and the invoice goes to the wrong party.

1. Decide whether the fault is inside your flat or in the common property.
2. If it is common property, contact the town council on the S&CC bill.
3. If it is inside the flat, match a published band or accept quote on inspection.
4. Book drilling on a weekday daytime slot. Keep the household shelter out of the drill map.
5. If a wall must come down, stop and use the permit route through V On Construction.

Inside HDB, blocks of different eras behave differently. A 1980s toilet ceiling with exposed spalling is not a 2022 BTO with a developer still on the hook. Say the key-collection year if you know it. Condo rules do not apply, but the flat upstairs still does. Landed houses are outside this page.

Service yards and bomb shelters are the two corners people forget to mention. A yard tap is often a simple valve. A shelter is not storage you can screw into. Describe both if they are in the photos.

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.

HDB does not get a discount table. These are the bands that come up most often inside a flat.

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.

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