Key duplication only when the key is allowed to be copied

Key duplication is a small machine and a large assumption. Ordinary house keys are cut from a pattern. Patented and restricted profiles are sold so they cannot be copied at a neighbourhood stall. HDB letterbox keys in a common bank may be controlled by the town council. We do not publish a price per key, because the catalogue does not contain one. Quote on inspection after a photo of the head of the key, not a photo that shows the bitting to the whole internet if you can avoid it. You can cover the cuts and show the brand.

We will not copy a key for an address you cannot show you occupy. That is not a service. A landlord copying a tenant’s newly changed cylinder, or the reverse, is a dispute we do not referee beyond the hardware. If the remaining key is at another flat, you bring it. We do not collect keys by courier. If there is no key left, you are on the lost letterbox guide or the locked-out guide, not on a cutting visit.

When a key cannot be copied, the next step is a lock change on a door you are allowed to change. Bedroom cylinders are quote on inspection. Fire-door digital locks are S$188 to S$320 to fit one you bought, if the holes are allowed, on the digital-lock guide. Do not “solve” an uncopyable key by drilling the main door. The door repair page remains the hinge and roller catalogue. A key is not a hinge.

Condo access cards and fobs are not keys we cut. The MCST issues those. A landed gate remote is the autogate page if the motor is the fault, not a duplicate blade. Window locks and child restrictors are the child-safety page. Bring the object you actually have.

Quantity does not create a rate. Five copies of an ordinary key are still quote on inspection, not five times a number we never printed. If a locksmith’s board shows a price, compare it with a written note of whether the key is restricted. A cheap copy that will not enter the lock is not cheaper.

Homey Furnishing Pte. Ltd. (ACRA UEN 202018148K), 27 Mandai Estate, #06-10 Innovation Place, Singapore 729931, invoices the permit-exempt visit. V On Construction Pte. Ltd. (ACRA UEN 201611708H), on the HDB Directory of Renovation Contractors, invoices hacking, a new layout, windows that are not exempt, and the household shelter. Homey Furnishing is not a MOM-licensed employment agency and does not place helpers, nannies or caregivers.

The priced door catalogue stays on door repair: alignment and hinges, HDB PD pivots, pocket rollers, balcony bogies, veneer patches and surface-mounted drop seals. This page does not replace that list. It only covers the narrower job in the heading.

1. Photograph the key head and say which door it belongs to.
2. Do not send a cutting job for a flat that is not yours.
3. If the key says restricted or needs a card, assume it may be uncopyable.
4. If no key remains, switch to the lost-key or lock page.
5. Expect quote on inspection. No per-key band is published.

HDB, condo and landed change the permission and the access. They do not create a private hourly rate.

How you're charged

These four lines are the published handyman charges. A job that already has its own band uses that band. The hour is not added on top of a band unless the written scope says so. There is no fuel surcharge.

Small, medium, and large visits

Times are planning estimates for the work itself. They are not a promise of when someone arrives.

What a handyman can't do

Permit-exempt fittings stay on the Homey Furnishing invoice. These do not:

• A new cable, a new circuit, or a consumer unit. That is an EMA licensed electrician. A socket on an existing circuit is the S$55 row. A dedicated appliance circuit stays S$220 to S$450.
• A new or relocated water point, or a hacked chase. That is a PUB licensed plumber. Tap labour on the existing outlet is S$55.
• Piped gas. That is a Licensed Gas Service Worker.
• Hacking, a new layout, or the household shelter. That is an HDB renovation permit through V On Construction Pte. Ltd. UEN 201611708H.
• A hole in a fire-rated door that the fire detail does not allow.
• Common-corridor lights, stacks, and letterbox banks. Those follow the town council on the S&CC bill, or the MCST in a condo.

Handyman vs licensed contractor

Ways to keep the bill smaller

• Put several tasks on one visit. The S$55 call-out is one task. Extra permit-exempt time is S$45 an hour, not a second trip.
• Buy the part when the row is labour only. Tap labour is S$55. Toilet-bowl labour is S$168. Instant-heater labour is S$108 to S$260. Exposed storage-heater labour is S$188 to S$380.
• Send the photos first, so the reply can use a published band instead of a vague hour.

WhatsApp the photos to +65 8561 0630.

Only the rows that already exist. Anything else is quote on inspection.

Anything not in that table is quote on inspection. A second trade, when the law requires one, is named. It is not folded into a handyman hour.

WhatsApp the photos to +65 8561 0630. The reply uses a band already printed on HomeySG, or it says quote on inspection. It does not invent a third number in the chat.

• Lost letterbox key
• Lock replacement
• Door repair
• Locked out