Patch the shop wall. A full repaint is a quote

Last updated 31 October 2026.

“How much to paint 1,000 square feet?” and “what is the best paint brand in Singapore?” are the searches that produce invented shop packages. This site does not publish a price per square foot, a price for a named brand, or a litres-per-shop table. The rows that exist are small. A small hole patch and repaint is S$150 to S$280. A hairline crack or a water stain, after the leak is fixed, is S$150 to S$400. A small spalling patch is S$150 to S$300, and spalling is concrete, not a paint crack. A half-day photography visit at S$488 to S$688 includes foyer scuffs in a home, not a shop fascia. Using that home package as a shop repaint is how the number looks official and is the wrong room.

A full shop coat is quote on inspection. So is a feature wall, a mural, and anti-mould paint as a product claim. We can patch what the hole sentence describes. We will not multiply a forum’s rate by your area. If the wall is damp, the patch sentence does not apply. Fix the leak first. Painting over a live leak is the stain coming back, and it is the sloppy visit.

Food shops are not a colour conversation. NEA’s code wants preparation and servery walls lined with glazed tiles or another suitable impervious material to at least 1.5 m. SFA’s checklist is looking for a surface that can be cleaned. Household emulsion on that wall fails the inspection even when the colour is neat. The F&B tile row, S$380 to S$750, is the repair when the tiles are the problem. Paint is the wrong material.

Curtains, blinds and roller shades are not part of this booking. A roller shutter is a different product and stays on the shutter page.

A hole is cut back to sound plaster, filled, and painted to the nearest break so the patch is not a shiny rectangle. On a shop wall that break might be a pier or a shelf standard. Feathering a 100 mm spot in the middle of a long wall is how the customer sees the repair. If the wall needs the whole bay recoated to disappear, that bay is quote on inspection, not ten copies of the hole price. The hole row is a small hole.

External walls of HDB shops and social communal facilities are the town council’s colour scheme, in the December 2025 shop guide. Walls that are part of the building facade follow the building colour. A deviation is only described for the recessed entrance, up to 3 m each side of the main entrance, and for recessed side and rear entrances. Painting the whole front a brand colour because the interior was that colour is the mistake. Interior walls that are not noisy work sit in the general hours: 9am to 6pm, Monday to Saturday, not Sunday or a public holiday. Sanding that becomes heavy noise joins the weekday noisy list. We do not set up a spray rig on a five-foot way.

At lease end, paint is often making-good rather than a new brand colour. Micro-reinstatement, S$1,800 to S$4,500, can include patch paint. A 300 sq ft strip-out is S$3,000 to S$7,500. If the landlord wants the original colour back, send that clause. Repainting into a new colour in the last month is money the yield-up may ask you to spend again.

Say patch or full coat. Send the hole and a wider photo so the break lines are visible. Say whether the wall is a food wall, an interior dry wall, or the external facade. Say if it was damp. A brand name is not a specification we price. If you have leftover paint from the fit-out, say so. Matching an unknown sheen is quote on inspection even for a small patch, because the S$150 row assumes the patch can be made. A patch that cannot be matched is a larger quote, not a promise.

Doors, shutters and signs are not included because the roller is out. A shutter is the shutter page. A sign is unpriced.

The small rows are real. The package rates are not.

Questions a shop should ask

A painter who leads with a brand and a square-foot rate has skipped the wall.

1. Is this a small hole, a stain, or a whole wall?
2. Is the wall dry?
3. Is food prepared against this wall?
4. Is the wall inside the shop or on the building facade?
5. If it is an HDB facade, what colour does the town council require?
6. Do you want a price per square foot? We will not give one.
7. Do you want a brand ranked? We will not rank one.
8. Does the lease want the original colour back?

Three walls, three rules.

HDB’s shop guide is the clock and the facade rule. General painting that is not noisy is 9am to 6pm, Monday to Saturday. External walls follow the town council, with the recess exception the guide describes. We do not treat a brand guideline as a town council approval.

NEA and SFA are why a food wall is not a paint wall. The F&B page prices cracked tile and food-safe grout. We do not issue the licence. A pretty emulsion that fails the wipe test is not a saving.

BCA and the qualified-person path start if painting is only the last coat of a larger fitting-out. The coat itself, on an existing wall, is not a hack. Covering spalling steel with filler is not a coat. The small spalling row is a small patch after the steel is treated, not a facade repair.

Official pages

• HDB renovation guide for shop tenants and owners, December 2025
• NEA Code of Practice on Environmental Health
• SFA food-shop licence checklist

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 vector-control operator.

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. A shop does not inherit a flat’s price just because the fitting looks similar.

Hole, hairline and small spalling rows are used only when the photo matches. A full shop, a food wall and an external facade are quote on inspection. No square-foot rate is added.

Ways to keep the bill smaller

• Keep the fit-out paint. A matched patch is smaller than a bay.
• Fix the leak before the stain is painted. Otherwise you pay twice.
• Do not repaint a food wall with emulsion the week before an inspection.
• Read the yield-up colour before you pay for a new one.

WhatsApp the photos to +65 8561 0630.

Patches are printed. Packages per area are not.

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.

• Interior painting
• Why a 3-room tin count is not a shop
• Food-shop walls that must be tile
• External colour and the town council
• Touch-ups while the shop is trading