Touch up a viewing. Do not invent a whole-flat paint price

“Painting HDB flat before sale” and “how much paint for a 3-room” are the searches that produce invented package prices. HomeySG does not publish a price per room for a full repaint, a price for a named paint brand, or a litres-per-flat table. Copying a forum’s tin count would be a guess about your walls. The rows that do exist are smaller. A small hole patch and repaint is S$150 to S$280. A hairline crack or a water stain, after the leak is fixed, is S$150 to S$400. A small spalling patch is S$150 to S$300 and is not a paint crack. The pre-sale page prices a half-day photography fix at S$488 to S$688 for cabinet doors, mismatched downlights, loose handles and foyer scuffs, and a one-day open-house refresh at S$788 to S$1,488 including bathroom silicone, a floor-trap valve, wardrobe rollers, scuff paint and window handles. Those sentences already include some paint. They are not a promise that every wall is recoated.

The seller is often still inside the flat, with a viewing on Saturday. General renovation, if the work is actually renovation, has HDB hours: weekdays and Saturdays for general work, and not Sundays. A handyman patch is not a hacking permit. It still should not be a corridor painting session. Project renovation guides filed by HDB, including the Belvia guide, list painting the external part of the building, such as common corridor walls and ceilings, as not allowed, and list painting a balcony external wall or railing a different colour as not allowed. Your block’s factsheet on My HDBPage is the copy that applies to you. We will not paint the common corridor to “brighten the approach” for a buyer.

Selling steps, valuation, and whether you may sell below valuation are not this visit. HDB’s selling pages and CEA’s register are the places for the transaction. A touch-up does not change a valuation and we will not say that it does. If the buyer has not completed, they do not possess the flat yet. The seller books this page. The buyer’s later fittings are the completion page. If you are painting because a tenant is leaving, the handover and cleaning pages may fit better than a sale day.

Doors and silicone change a viewing more than a new tin of paint. Hinge tightening is S$60 to S$120. One silicone zone is S$80 to S$150. A window handle, if the stay is sound, is S$60 to S$120. A rusty stay is not a handle and not a paint extra. It is an approved window contractor. Send the photos in daylight. Dark feature walls will still show a spot repair. We will not promise an invisible blend.

Homey Furnishing Pte. Ltd. (ACRA UEN 202018148K), 27 Mandai Estate, #06-10 Innovation Place, Singapore 729931, invoices permit-exempt maintenance. V On Construction Pte. Ltd. (ACRA UEN 201611708H), on the HDB Directory of Renovation Contractors, invoices hacking, a new layout, and other work that needs an HDB renovation permit. Homey Furnishing is not a Council for Estate Agencies licensed estate agent and does not sell, rent or market flats. It is not a Ministry of Manpower licensed employment agency and does not place helpers.

Curtains, blinds and roller shades are not part of this booking. This page also does not sell or rent the home, and it does not place a domestic worker.

Name the marks a buyer will touch. Do not start from “paint the whole 4-room”.

1. Walk the route a buyer walks: door, foyer, bathroom, kitchen.
2. Photograph scuffs, holes, silicone and sagging doors.
3. If the list is the photography set, use the half-day already priced.
4. If you want every wall recoated, expect quote on inspection.
5. Leave the corridor, the sale price and the option form out of the booking.

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

A tin covers what the tin’s label says on a stated surface, at a stated coat count, on a wall that is already sealed. Singapore flats vary in ceiling height, number of colours, and how much furniture stays in the room. Publishing “a 3-room needs this many litres” would be a statistic we have not measured. The paint guide on this site says the same thing in longer form. Ask for quote on inspection and send the room count, the colours, and whether furniture must move.

If the only goal is that nail holes disappear before a photo shoot, you do not need that quote. You need the hole sentence or the half-day. Say which.

How you're charged

A job that already has a sentence on HomeySG uses that sentence. The hour is not added on top of a band unless the written scope says so. There is no fuel surcharge. A whole-flat repaint, a private defect-scan fee, and a litre of a named paint brand are not in the catalogue.

Who is allowed to do the work

HDB’s important information on renovation says renovation in a flat, including some work that does not need a permit, is carried out by a contractor from the Directory of Renovation Contractors. The same page says failing to use a listed contractor for renovations, or breaching the renovation rules, can lead to a fine of up to $5,000. That sentence is HDB’s. It is not a ruling on your flat. Read the page before you treat a handyman visit as a renovation.

• Permit-exempt maintenance that already has a band, such as a hinge, a silicone joint or a small hole patch, stays on the Homey Furnishing invoice.
• Hacking, a new layout, and replacement of toilet finishes inside HDB’s restriction period move to V On Construction Pte. Ltd. UEN 201611708H. The price of that permit scope is quote on inspection.
• A new cable or a consumer unit is an EMA licensed electrician. A new water point is a PUB licensed plumber. Piped gas is a licensed gas worker.
• Window installation and replacement on an HDB flat is a BCA approved window contractor on HDB’s directory, with a renovation permit first. BCA describes workhead RW01. Homey Furnishing is not that contractor.
• Selling, renting or marketing the flat is estate agency work. CEA registers property agents. We do not do that work.
• A weekly cleaner on this site is not a migrant domestic worker placement. We do not hire out helpers.
• Curtains, blinds and roller shades are not part of this booking.

Ways to keep the bill smaller

• Photograph every mark before you book a full repaint. A hole that matches the S$150 to S$280 sentence does not need a whole-flat price.
• Put several permit-exempt tasks on one visit. The S$55 call-out is one task. Further permit-exempt time is S$45 an hour, not a second trip.
• Report a new-flat defect to HDB, or the developer if the contract says so, before you pay anyone to cover it.
• Do not hack a bathroom floor to “save” a later leak. HDB’s three-year restriction exists so the flat below stays dry.
• If the stain is still wet, do not paint. The hairline band assumes the leak has stopped.

WhatsApp the photos to +65 8561 0630.

Small rows are the catalogue. A full repaint is the blank row on purpose.

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.

• Pre-sale photography day
• Why there is no litre table
• Corridor and balcony paint
• Painting service
• Hole repair