Mosquito and insect screens on the window you have

Mosquito screen, insect screen, fly screen and magnetic window screen are the same household problem in Singapore: the pane needs to open in the evening without letting mosquitoes in. The mechanical answer depends on the window. A casement or a top-hung sash needs clearance for the arc, so a magnetic panel that lifts off, or a frame that sits inside the reveal, is the usual approach. A sliding window does not swing, but the screen has to travel with the opening and miss the lock. A retractable cassette suits a pane you open every day if the head of the frame has room for it. These are fitting notes, not prices. No insect-screen band is published in the HomeySG catalogue used here. The reply is quote on inspection after the photos.

The mosquito-net service page is the parent for window and door screens. This page exists so a sliding window and a casement are not forced into one description. It does not add a second rate. Cat-proof mesh is the easy mistake. No-drill cat mesh is S$120 to S$220 a window on the pet-proofing page, and a 3-room to 5-room package is S$450 to S$1,200. That mesh is there so a cat cannot fall, which is also the condition HDB set from 1 September 2024 for keeping up to two microchipped cats. Insect mesh and cat mesh can look similar in a photo and they are specified differently. Say whether the problem is mosquitoes, a cat, or both. Both means two requirements, not an average of the two products.

An interior screen that does not replace the window, change the facade or stick out past the building line is not the HDB window-replacement permit. The replacement permit is for a new window, done by an approved contractor. If the screen needs screws into the external frame, or it closes a parapet the way a grille does, stop and use the grille rules, including the 1 July 2007 design rule where it applies. Condo MCSTs treat external screens as facade items. An internal magnetic screen is an easier conversation than a cassette that shows on the elevation. Landed houses are measured from inside. We do not stand on the sill.

Do not cover a fault with mesh. A sliding panel that lifts out needs its stopper before a screen is made. That stopper is quote on inspection on the roller page, and a failed roller is S$180 to S$600 with an RW01 contractor. A dirty track is S$60 to S$100. Mesh on a track full of silt will jam. A rusty casement stay is the stay page, not a screen visit. Film for heat is a third product. You can want all three. They are three lines, and only the lines with published bands get those bands.

Handles, stays and child restrictors have to remain usable. A screen that forces the household to remove a child lock to open the window is refused. The child-safety page explains that a device a child can also unscrew is not the point. Grille bars already in the opening change the depth available for mesh. Photograph the grille, the handle and the open sash. Kitchen windows near the stove collect grease on mesh. That is a cleaning reality, not a reason to omit the screen, and it is not a curtain.

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 the window open and closed, including the handle.
2. Say casement, top-hung, sliding or a door.
3. Say mosquitoes, cats, or both.
4. Do not order mesh for a window that lifts out of its track.
5. Expect quote on inspection for the screen.

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.
• Photograph the handle swing. A screen that blocks the lever will be taken down in a week.

WhatsApp the photos to +65 8561 0630.

Insect screens have no published band. The prices below are the neighbouring products people mix in.

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.

• Mosquito nets and screens
• Cat mesh
• Rollers and stoppers first
• Grilles, if the opening is a parapet
• Child locks that must still work