A desk at home, not a change of use

The study-corner guide is the home desk that does not build a room. This service is that desk when we build it, in an HDB flat, a condo or a landed room that already exists. A carton is S$140 to S$260. A partition that creates a room is a permit in an HDB flat and an MCST question in a condo. HDB’s renovation page is the flat. We do not publish whether a home-based trade is allowed. If customers, patients or a food licence are part of the plan, this is the wrong page.

A clinic basin, a salon floor trap and a cafe hood are shop trades. The shop fit-out page, the exhaust page and the grease-trap notes exist for shops. A conserved shophouse also needs Conservation Permission before a new use, which the shophouse guide quotes from URA. We do not apply. A small office partition in a rented office is the office pages, not a bedroom desk. Say which room you mean.

Power: S$55 on an existing circuit, S$220 to S$450 for a dedicated circuit, S$480 to S$780 if the HDB board is full. Those are the DB page. A shelter wall is refused. Clause 7.2 applies in an HDB shelter. A condo may not have one. Do not run a cable along a conserved shophouse stair and call it a home office. That building is the shophouse service.

We do not market a room as a co-living bed or a holiday let. Loose shelves are S$50 to S$80 when small. A tall bookcase we build is part of the quote. No acoustic rating is published. If the neighbour is the problem, the sound page is the seal and the secondary window, not a thicker shelf. Send the wall, the chair and whether clients will ever enter. If the answer is yes, we will ask who approved that use before we build a counter.

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.

Photograph the fitting before you buy a product or book a hack.

1. Say home desk or customer premises.
2. If customers come, name the approval. We do not apply for it.
3. Count sockets.
4. Keep shelters and conserved stairs out.
5. Quote a built-in. Use the carton row only for that desk.

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

If the drawing has a reception counter, a basin for clients, or a kitchen hood, it is not a home office. We will say so. The price will not be the S$140 desk row.

Two people at one desk is the study guide. Ten desks is the office rollout at S$580 to S$1,800 on the desk page, which is an office, not a flat.

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 customers will visit, stop and name the approval. A desk for your own work is this page.

WhatsApp the photos to +65 8561 0630.

A home desk is a small quote or a carton. A shop is not folded into it.

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.

• Study corner
• Carton desks
• Power
• Shophouses
• Shop fit-out
• Noise