High-rise window cleaning from inside the flat

Window cleaning searches in Singapore add the words high-rise, exterior and HDB because so many homes are above the tree line. The method on the existing cleaning page is the method here. Telescopic magnetic gliders do the glass. Tracks are steamed, about 170°C on that page’s description, after a dry vacuum would only smear the silt. Grilles are wiped from the room side. The crew does not lean out of a casement or a sliding window and does not stand on the aircon ledge. MOM and HDB safe-window guidance, and work-at-height rules, are why. The photograph on this page is a gondola on the TOC Building. It shows the equipment a tower uses. It is not our booking. No rope-access price is published, and we will not invent one.

The published bands are specific. An HDB 3-room to 5-room, about 10 to 18 panels, aluminium grilles and sliding tracks, is S$120 to S$240. A condo full-height window and balcony door is S$180 to S$350. A landed house, interior plus accessible exterior glass and a glass balustrade, is S$280 to S$480, and the page is clear that accessible exterior means a telescopic tool, not a person outside the casement. Invisible-grille cables, service-yard louvers and bathroom top-hung windows are S$140 to S$280. Cables are degreased in place. Fixings are not removed. If your flat is larger than the 3-room to 5-room sentence, do not stretch S$240 to cover it. Quote on inspection.

Exterior dirt on a west facade is real. Afternoon sun bakes rain spots onto the glass, and the living room looks hotter. Cleaning does not reject heat the way film does. If the glass is already clean and the room is still unbearable at 4pm, the heat-rejection page is the next conversation, still quote on inspection, still under the 20% reflectance cap. Do not book a gondola because a forum said exterior washing cools the room. We will not put someone outside your casement to test that.

A clean is not a repair. Hinges, rollers and cracked glass stay on their pages. If a panel is unsafe to open, we do not open it to reach the outside face. Tell us before the visit. Child-safety locks stay on. The cleaning page already says interior safety locks stay on. We will not remove a restrictor to get a cloth through. Tracks that are only being cleaned are not lubricated into a roller replacement. If the wheel is dead, the roller page applies after the clean, as its own band.

Condos sometimes want facade washing as an estate contract. That is the management’s gondola or their contractor, not a unit owner’s afternoon booking with us. If your MCST has banned residents from opening full-height panels past a stop, we work within that stop. Landed stair glass is included only when it can be reached from the flight. A storey that needs a scaffold is quote on inspection, and the high-ceiling lamp scaffold price on another page is not reused as a window price. Curtains and blinds are not taken down as part of this clean unless you have moved them yourself. We do not quote a fabric service.

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. Count panels and say HDB, condo or landed.
2. Do not open a sash whose stay looks rusty.
3. Leave child locks fitted.
4. Point out invisible cables and yard louvers if you want that row.
5. Do not ask for a gondola or a person on the ledge.

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

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.
• Book the clean before you judge whether you need film. Dirty west-facing glass feels hotter than it is.

WhatsApp the photos to +65 8561 0630.

These are the cleaning rows already published. Rope access is absent 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.

• Window, grille and track cleaning
• Window and bathroom calculator
• Heat film, if the glass is already clean
• Locks that stay on during the clean
• Repair, if a sash should not be opened