Window handles and locks, not child restrictors

The published handle sentence is short. Window handle replacement is S$60 to S$120. It applies when the lever, the cam or the catch on the sash has failed and the friction stay or the sliding panel is still doing its job. HDB flats, condos and landed houses use that same band. There is no town surcharge. Send a photo of the lever from inside, and a second photo of the stay or the roller so we can see that the expensive part is not the one that failed.

Top-hung locks are a common extra search. A top-hung casement over a stove uses the same stay rules as any other casement. If the “lock” is the lever and the stay is tight, the handle band is the one to use. If the sash drops, the stay and the rivets are the RW01 band at S$180 to S$600 and the handle price is the wrong invoice. Kitchen grease makes levers sticky. A sticky lever on a sound stay can be the handle visit. A sticky lever on a powdery rivet is the contractor. We will not oil a failing stay and charge the handle row.

Child-safety locks and restrictors are searched in the same breath as handles. They are not this row. The child-safety page is explicit: no restrictor price is published, and a restrictor on a failing window is refused. A restrictor limits how far a sound casement opens. A handle latches the sash shut. Replacing a broken latch does not add a child limit. If you need both, they are two lines, and the second line is quote on inspection. A preschool finger guard at S$85 to S$150 is a door, not a window.

Grille locks are the other mix-up. “HDB window grill lock” is a lock on the metal grille, not the aluminium handle. Grille work, including whether the grille was allowed in the first place, is the HDB window grille page. Invisible-grille stiffener clips are S$80 to S$160 on the invisible-grille page. That clip is not a handle. Do not ask the handle visit to re-pin a grille.

Condo and landed handles follow the same dollar. What changes is permission if the repair becomes exterior hardware. An MCST may want to know about anything visible on the facade. A handle inside the room usually is not that. We still will not drill a new hole pattern in an approved frame if the replacement lever does not match the old holes. Quote on inspection in that case, rather than forcing the S$60 to S$120 sentence onto a frame that needs a different prep. Curtains do not latch a window.

Homey Furnishing Pte. Ltd. (ACRA UEN 202018148K), 27 Mandai Estate, #06-10 Innovation Place, Singapore 729931, invoices permit-exempt window work done from inside the flat. V On Construction Pte. Ltd. (ACRA UEN 201611708H), on the HDB Directory of Renovation Contractors, invoices an HDB renovation permit when the window scope needs one. The exterior rivets, friction stays, rollers and glass are done by a BCA approved window contractor registered under workhead RW01. Homey Furnishing is not that RW01 contractor.

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

Look from inside the room. Do not lean out to test a stay or a pane.

1. Photograph the handle and the stay or roller together.
2. If the sash drops, stop. That is not the handle band.
3. If you need a child limit, say so. It is a second page.
4. If the lock is on a metal grille, use the grille page.
5. Expect S$60 to S$120 only when the handle sentence fits.

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

How you're charged

A window job that already has a sentence on HomeySG uses that sentence. Nothing in this table is a fuel surcharge, and the hour is not added on top of a band unless the written scope says so.

Who is allowed to touch the window

HDB’s window-works guidelines require a BCA approved window contractor listed in HDB’s directory for installation and replacement, and an HDB renovation permit before that work starts. BCA registers that contractor under workhead RW01. Retrofitting replaces aluminium rivets in variable-geometry stays with type 304 stainless steel. Homey Furnishing does not issue that rivet.

• Interior silicone or PU reseal, at S$180 to S$380 a window, is the exempt interior job on the window repair page.
• A handle at S$60 to S$120 is that published row. A failed stay or rivet is not a handle.
• Film on intact glass is not a sash replacement. On an HDB flat, film over existing window or balcony-door glass does not need a permit when it is non-reflective or not above 20% reflectance.
• Service-yard and balcony parapet grilles need a permit. Flats handed over from 1 July 2007 use HDB’s approved grille designs. Older blocks may take an internal grille that does not protrude, without that permit.
• A condo facade is the MCST’s elevation. Reflective film, a grille and an external screen are uniformity questions before anyone sticks or drills.
• Curtains, blinds and roller shades are not quoted here.
• Nobody leans out of the casement. High glass is cleaned from inside.

Ways to keep the bill smaller

• Photograph every opening before a film roll, a mesh panel or a grille is cut. A wrong reflectance or a wrong grille design is a wasted visit.
• Put the windows in one room on the same visit. A second trip is a second booking.
• If the track is only dirty, the published clean is S$60 to S$100. That is not a new roller.
• If the stay is rusty, stop. Film and a child lock on a failing sash do not make it safe. The approved contractor comes first.
• Photograph the stay in the same frame as the handle. If the stay is loose, the handle price is the wrong sentence.

WhatsApp the photos to +65 8561 0630.

The handle band is published. The rows under it are the jobs people confuse with a handle.

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.

• Window repair catalogue
• Stays, if the sash drops
• Grille locks
• Child restrictors
• Door handles, if it is a door