Office handyman for fittings, not a fit-out

Office managers in Singapore usually want a person who can finish a list: a glass door that scrapes, a stained ceiling board, two desks still in cartons, a phone booth that has to move three metres. That list is this page. A new reception, a new ceiling throughout, or a landlord yield-up is a different document. The office renovation page is the fit-out. The reinstatement page is the make-good at the end of the lease. This page is the fittings in between.

The buyer is the office manager, the landlord’s facility contact, or the agent who holds the keys. We invoice Homey Furnishing Pte. Ltd. for permit-exempt work. We do not manage the building, collect rent, or place a receptionist. If the instruction comes from a managing agent, the agent is the customer for that visit. The agent is not our employer and we are not the MCST.

Search pages often sell a single “office call-out” that swallows every fault. That number is not in this catalogue. Each fault keeps the sentence already printed for it. A hinge on a timber door, if that is really the fault, is S$60 to S$120 on the door repair page. A glass door that only needs the patches tightened is S$250 to S$420. Those two sentences are not averaged into an office rate.

Curtains, blinds and roller shades are not part of this booking.

On site, the floor goes down before the ceiling comes open. A sheet covers carpet or vinyl under a board cut. The nearest exit stays usable. A stair or riser door that is a fire door keeps its closer on the leaf while we look at it. Taking the closer off “to see if the door is the problem” leaves the door open, which is the failure SCDF’s fire-door clause is written to prevent. Staff who are still at their desks are told which bay we are in. Drilling a concrete soffit in a live row of desks is booked when that row can clear, or when the building’s own rule says the work has to wait until after the floor empties.

A desk that arrives as a motorised frame, with monitor arms and a cable spine, is assembled as that product. The standing-desk page names Omnidesk, Secretlab Magnus Pro, Everdesk, Uplift and a Taobao dual-motor frame, at S$140 to S$260 for one desk. Cables that would otherwise lie in the walkway go into the spine or into trunking. MOM’s occupier duty is to keep pathways safe. A rollout of 10 to 30 desks, with arms, floor trunking and a meeting-room video bar, is the separate band of S$580 to S$1,800. Ten separate S$55 tickets are the wrong shape for that week.

An acoustic phone booth that is dismantled and stood up again inside the same office is S$450 to S$1,400, the furniture-assembly sentence for that move. The booth is not hung from the ceiling grid. A glass partition that needs a door cut into an existing demountable run is S$550 to S$1,200. A new gypsum room, built to add a workstation the approved plan does not show, is not that sentence.

Send one photo per fault and say what the building is. A strata office above shops is an MCST matter when the wall or the ceiling void is common property. A mall unit that can only be entered after the centre closes is the overnight row, S$380 to S$650, which already includes permit-to-work admin and one hardware fix. The hardware price is not doubled by that night row. If the mall is not involved, there is no published after-hours premium. The night is quote on inspection.

Write the count. “Some desks” is not a row. One desk is S$140 to S$260. The 10-to-30 row starts at ten. Two desks are two uses of the single-desk sentence if each photo matches it. We do not publish a two-desk discount, and we do not multiply S$260 by ten and call it the rollout. A term retainer, a monthly visit, or a service-level promise has no printed fee. The contract guide on this site says what to put in the scope before anyone invents a monthly number in a chat.

Match the photo to a page that already exists. This office page is the index. It does not replace those catalogues.

Questions a business should ask

Ask these before you compare two quotations. A lower number that has no line items is not a saving.

1. Which printed sentence is each line, and which HomeySG page is it on?
2. Is the S$55 call-out the whole visit, or is further time at S$45 an hour written down?
3. Are parts included, or is the band labour only?
4. Who invoices, Homey Furnishing or V On Construction, and why?
5. If the unit is in a mall, is the S$380 to S$650 night row on the quote?
6. Will any fire-door closer be removed, adjusted, or replaced, and against which door label?
7. Is a monthly fee being offered? If yes, ask for quote on inspection in writing, because no office retainer is published.
8. Who supplies the permit to work, and is that admin inside the mall row or a separate quote?

The fitting’s price does not change because the postcode changed. The permission does. Say which column you are in before you ask for a Saturday drill.

BCA’s guide on building works that do not need approval points private owners to the First Schedule of insignificant building works, and tells them to appoint a qualified person when they are unsure. Replacing a closer, patching a board and assembling desks are the sort of maintenance that usually sits outside a plan submission. We do not issue that opinion for your unit. If the work hacks, changes a layout, or is an HDB flat’s renovation permit, the invoice moves to V On Construction Pte. Ltd. The permit guide on this site already splits those jobs and records fines for unauthorised HDB work up to S$5,000.

MOM’s note on stakeholder duties is the other rule on an occupied floor. The employer of the people doing the work assesses the hazard. The principal who engaged the contractor checks that the contractor can do the work and that the equipment is safe. The occupier keeps the workplace and the routes to it safe. If the client directs how the work is carried out, MOM says the principal’s duties extend to those of an employer. A risk assessment is not a slogan we print as a response time. We do not publish how many minutes after a call someone arrives.

SCDF Fire Code 2023 clause 3.9 requires a fire door to have an automatic self-closing device that can close the door from any angle and against the latch, and it says a faulty device is repaired immediately. That clause is why a stair closer is not taken off to make the floor quieter. The commercial closer page is the diagnosis. A plain closer on an ordinary office room door, with no catalogue row, stays quote on inspection.

Official pages

• BCA: building works that do not need plan approval
• MOM: WSH duties of employers, principals and occupiers
• SCDF Fire Code 2023 clause 3.9: fire doors and self-closers

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, and an HDB renovation permit. Homey Furnishing is not a property agency, not a CEA practice, and not a MOM-licensed employment agency.

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 and no published night premium except the mall overnight row.

On an office list, the S$55 call-out is one task. A desk, a floor spring or a ceiling board uses its own band and does not also collect the hour unless the scope says the hour is extra.

Ways to keep the bill smaller

• Put the whole list in one message. Five separate visits repeat the access conversation with security.
• Clear the bay before a desk build. Moving occupied chairs is not in the desk band.
• Photograph oil at a glass-door pivot. That one photo stops a hinge price being applied to a floor spring.
• Do not buy a monthly plan from a house-maintenance page. Those landed bands are for terrace, semi-detached and bungalow houses.

WhatsApp the photos to +65 8561 0630.

These are the office rows already printed. A sign, a whiteboard, a plain surface closer and a monthly contract are not among them.

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.

• Standing desks
• Glass doors and floor springs
• Office renovation
• What a maintenance contract can say
• Commercial door closers