Cut down, refinish, or patch a piece you already own

People ask a carpenter to shorten a table, lower a bookcase, or refinish a top instead of buying another one. That visit is quote on inspection. It is not the assembly row run backwards. A bed frame assembled from a carton is S$80 to S$150. Sawing that frame so it turns a stair is a different job, and the cam fittings often will not meet again. Say if the piece is a carton with fittings or a carpenter carcass. The moving guide is why you are cutting it. This page is the cut.

A face that is tired but sound is narrower. One room door, veneer or pet scratch, core intact, is S$160 to S$350. Alignment is S$50 to S$100. A generic hinge is from S$38 a door. Paint or a wrap on laminate is quote on inspection, as the peeling page says. We do not publish a price per coat or a brand of oil. Oil on a soft, termite-damaged leg is refused. That leg is the termite page if the length matches, from S$240 for 10m to 30m of skirting, not a refinish.

Matching the cut piece to the furniture that stays is the matching guide. A raw edge after a saw cut has to be banded or lipped. Loose banding on a sound board is quote on inspection. It is not a hinge. If the cut exposes particle board in a wet kitchen, stop. That edge will swell. The materials guide says why. A sink cabinet is repaired from S$280, not shortened for fun.

Ownership is the limit. We will not cut, sand or refinish a table, wardrobe or door the landlord owns unless they have agreed. The rental page says the same. A tenant who needs the piece to leave should choose a loose carton they can carry, not a cut into someone else’s built-in. Stripping a built-in can be an HDB permit. HDB’s renovation page and the fine of up to $5,000 apply when a renovation breaches the rules. V On Construction invoices the permit. Shortening a loose table you own does not.

The cut still has to be safe. A bookcase cut down is still anchored into structure if it is tall. A shelter wall is refused as the new fixing. A hollow partition is a stop. BCA plan approval is not a shorter table. We will not remove a structural leg because it catches a shin. Curtains are not part of the refinish.

Homey Furnishing Pte. Ltd. (ACRA UEN 202018148K), 27 Mandai Estate, #06-10 Innovation Place, Singapore 729931, invoices permit-exempt furniture assembly and repair. V On Construction Pte. Ltd. (ACRA UEN 201611708H), on the HDB Directory of Renovation Contractors, invoices an HDB renovation permit when the work is a new layout, hacking, or a built-in strip-out. Homey Furnishing is not a removal company and does not publish a truck rate.

Curtains, blinds and roller shades are not part of this booking. Fabric window treatments are a different product, and these pages do not quote them.

Look at the piece in the room. Do not drag a tall wardrobe across a wet floor to test it.

1. Confirm you own the piece.
2. Say carton with fittings, or a carpenter carcass.
3. Photograph the edge and the place it must fit.
4. Do not ask for the assembly price on a saw cut.
5. Match a door patch only when the core is sound.

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

Panels are drilled for cams at a spacing. Cutting the end off throws that spacing away. We will not pretend the piece goes back together on the assembly band. If the carton is simply the wrong size, replacing it is often the cleaner quote. Send the photo before you saw it yourself. A cut you already made is still quote on inspection, and it may be a refusal if the panel is now scrap.

A solid top can sometimes be shortened and relipped. That is the quote. It is not a guarantee the finish will blend. Read the cracking page if the top has already split. Cutting a split does not unsplit the rest.

How you're charged

A furniture job that already has a sentence on HomeySG uses that sentence. Nothing in this table is a fuel surcharge, and the handyman hour is not added on top of a band unless the written scope says so. IKEA publishes its own checkout fee. That percentage is not a HomeySG band.

Who is allowed to do the work

The permit guide on this site already splits hardware from a renovation. A cabinet hinge, a gas strut and a drawer runner do not need an HDB renovation permit when the layout stays. A new kitchen or bathroom layout, hacking, or removing a wall does. Fines for unauthorised work are already written there as up to S$5,000. Homey Furnishing does not sign the permit invoice.

• Flat-pack assembly uses the furniture assembly catalogue. Tall units are wall-anchored on that visit. A separate anti-tip price is not printed, except the child-gate and anti-tip bundle at S$180 to S$420 when that bundle is the job.
• A built-in that has to come off the wall can become a strip-out. That is V On Construction if the flat is HDB and the work needs a permit. A loose shelf inside a carcass is not a strip-out.
• Town councils collect some bulky loose items on their own rules. We are not the collector, and we do not publish their fee.
• A new cable inside a wardrobe is an electrician. Assembly does not include a new circuit.
• Do not anchor into a household shelter wall. The permit guide already keeps TV brackets and shelves off that wall.
• A hollow partition or a false ceiling is a poor anchor for a tall wardrobe. If the fixing cannot reach structure, the visit stops.
• Active termites are not painted over. Skirting and door-frame replacement after damage uses the termite page bands. We do not claim to be the pest-control operator.
• Curtains, blinds and roller shades are not quoted here.

Ways to keep the bill smaller

• Photograph every piece before a carpenter is booked. A hinge visit is not a new kitchen.
• Put the flat-pack in the room where it will stand. Carrying a built wardrobe down an HDB corridor is a second job.
• If the drawer only sticks, use the published slide row. A new carcass is the cabinet page, and only when the board is swollen.
• Book the town council bulky slot before you pay anyone to truck a loose sofa. Many councils collect a limited number of loose items. Built-ins are usually excluded.
• Do not cut an IKEA panel and expect the S$50 small-item price. The fittings will not meet.

WhatsApp the photos to +65 8561 0630.

Patches and hinges are printed. A cut is quote on inspection.

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.

• Matching what stays
• Why it must be shorter
• Paint and peel
• If you do not own it
• Room doors
• Loose repairs
• Custom furniture
• Handyman price list