Heat-rejection film for west-facing Singapore glass

West-facing living rooms in Singapore take the afternoon sun on the glass. The stack may face the open side of Jurong, Clementi, Bukit Batok, Choa Chu Kang or a new town with no neighbour yet. The complaint is heat on the sofa and glare on the television. Solar control film sits on the existing pane. This page does not publish a degrees-cooler claim, a UV-block percentage or a total-solar-energy figure. Manufacturer sheets carry those numbers. HomeySG does not copy them into a price.

HDB’s window-works guidelines treat placement of film over the glass of existing windows or balcony doors as work that does not need a renovation permit, if the film is non-reflective or does not exceed 20% reflectance. A dark mirror film marketed as the strongest heat rejection can be the film that fails that sentence. Say which rooms face west and send a photo of the elevation from the corridor or the ground, not by leaning out. A condo MCST often treats a reflective facade as a uniformity item even when a milder film would have passed the HDB percentage. Landed houses have no HDB film permit. Upper-storey panes are still filmed from inside.

The order of work matters on a casement. Fallen windows in Singapore are a rivet problem. The window safety guide on this site explains SS304 rivets in the friction stays, and stoppers and angle strips on sliding panels. Film on a sash whose stay is powdery is a decoration on a hazard. If the photo shows a rusty stay or a missing rivet, this visit stops. Interior silicone, when the complaint is rain at a sound frame, is S$180 to S$380 a window on the window repair page and is not a roll of film. A handle that has snapped off is S$60 to S$120 on that same page, and it is still not film.

Searches for window tint in Singapore mix home glass with car tint and LTA darkness rules. This page is the home. We do not quote a vehicle. We also do not quote curtains, blinds or roller shades as the way to cut afternoon heat. If you want less glare and you still want the view, the question is which film stays inside the reflectance rule. The roll is quote on inspection after a count of panes. A 3-room, a 4-room and an executive flat are not the same count, and this page does not invent a flat-type package.

UV fading of floors and furniture is the west-facing guide, not a percentage printed here. Privacy after dark is the one-way page: a heat film can feel private at 4pm and stop being private when the living-room lights are on. Bathroom and service-yard glass that must stay obscure day and night is frosted film. A child who can open the casement wide is the restrictor page. Darker glass does not hold a child.

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 each hot pane from inside, and note west or not.
2. Photograph the stay and the rivet heads. Stop if they are powdery.
3. Say HDB, condo or landed, and whether the glass is a balcony door.
4. Do not buy a mirror film online before the reflectance question is answered.
5. Expect quote on inspection for the film itself.

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.

It is not a new aluminium window. Replacement of the frame is the HDB window replacement page, with a BCA approved window contractor and a permit. It is not an insect screen, and it is not the no-drill cat mesh priced at S$120 to S$220 on the pet-proofing page. Cat mesh is there so a cat cannot fall. It does not reject afternoon heat.

It is not exterior window cleaning and it is not a gondola. If the glass is only dirty, the cleaning bands already published run from S$120 to S$240 for a 3-room to 5-room HDB, done from inside. Dirty glass feels hotter. Clean it before you decide the film is the whole answer. The crew still does not lean out.

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.
• Count the west-facing panes in the photos. A living-room bay and a bedroom casement are not one flat-rate package.

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.

• Window film overview
• West-facing heat and UV guide
• One-way privacy film
• Frosted film for bathrooms
• Casement rivet rules
• Interior reseal and RW01 limits
• Window child-safety locks