A choked sink: trap, auger, or the common stack

A sink that will not empty is either the trap under it, the branch, or the stack. The toilet page prices a mechanical auger of a toilet bowl or a bathroom floor trap at S$120 to S$240. Use that row when the choke is that trap or that bowl. A kitchen sink is a bottle trap, grease, and sometimes a dishwasher hose. It is not automatically the bathroom sentence. If the photo does not match, quote on inspection. We will not stretch S$120 to every basin in the flat to make a menu.

The Malay choke guide on this site also prints a range of $70 to $160 for a floor trap or sink and $80 to $200 for a bowl, as a translated overview. The later English service page is the mechanical auger at S$120 to S$240. When the two sentences differ, book the sentence that describes the tool and the fixture, not the lower number because it is lower. This page will not pretend they are one product. Tell us which fixture and what you have already poured.

Chemicals are the hazard. Do not add a second product. Do not plunge a trap you have just filled with a corrosive. Ventilate. If you feel faint, leave. Tell the technician what went in before anyone opens the trap. A trap that is opened onto a face full of mixed chemicals is the injury this instruction exists to avoid. Boiling water on a PVC trap is how the trap deforms. Use the cold tap to see the level. Do not boil it.

A sink that has dropped from the stone is not a choke. The undermount re-mount is S$220 to S$450. Prop the bowl. A leak at the trap is often the cabinet’s death, and the cabinet page prices the swollen base. Clear the choke or the leak before you talk about a new carcass. A valve and hose set is S$110 to S$180 when that is the supply side. Supply and waste are different photos.

If the bathroom and the kitchen slow together, or the flat below complains, stop using water and call the town council for a common stack. A private auger will not clear a stack, and you should not pay for one. HDB and condo stacks are the same idea with different phone numbers. The bill or the MCST names the number. Landed gullies in the yard are yours, and they are quote on inspection if they are not the bathroom trap in the published sentence.

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.

1. Stop using the fixture. Do not add a second chemical.
2. Say kitchen, bathroom basin, floor trap or toilet.
3. If neighbours are affected, call the council or MCST.
4. Use S$120 to S$240 only for the auger sentence on the toilet page.
5. Prop a dropped bowl. That is the sink re-mount, not a choke.

The building changes permission. It does not change a band that already has a sentence, and it does not fill a blank.

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.

Published rows only. A missing row is quote on inspection, not a rounded guess.

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.

• Auger and toilet chokes
• Malay choke guide
• Dropped sinks
• If it is the flush, not the waste