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  • Handyman Service in Singapore: Why Urban Company’s By-the-Hour Model Gets Your Whole List Done in One Visit

    Key Takeaways

    • Urban Company’s handyman service in Singapore is booked by the hour — your professional works through your entire list in 1 visit, not 1 task at a time.
    • Your Urban Company handyman arrives in 30 minutes, fully equipped. You don’t need to prepare tools or materials.
    • Every professional is background-verified and rated by previous customers — you see their profile before they arrive.
    • Urban Company also offers licensed electricians and plumbers in Singapore, so if something on your list needs a specialist, you can book them on the same platform.

    You’ve had a mental list for weeks.

    The TV bracket is still in its box. The floating shelf is measured, but not drilled. The IKEA bed frame is sitting flat-packed against your kids’ bedroom wall. You keep telling yourself you’ll get to it on Saturday — except Saturday fills up faster than your BTO did.

    Urban Company’s handyman service in Singapore is built for exactly this. Not 1 fix. Your whole list, done in 1 visit, by a background-verified professional who shows up in 30 minutes.

    Here’s how it works — and what you can hand over.

    What Can You Book With Urban Company’s Handyman Service in Singapore?

    Urban Company’s handyman service in Singapore is organised into 6 booking categories — each covering a specific type of home task. Here’s exactly what’s on the menu

    Furniture Assembly

    This is one of the most-booked Urban Company handyman services in Singapore — and for good reason. Flat-pack furniture is satisfying to buy and painful to assemble. Your handyman handles:

    • Rack, cabinet, and table assembly — shelving units, TV consoles, study desks, side tables
    • Bed assembly and installation — bed frames, storage beds, headboards
    • Wardrobe assembly — hinged or sliding door wardrobes, any brand
    • Dining table and chair assembly — full dining sets

    All brands covered: IKEA, Courts, Castlery, Nook & Cranny, Comfort Design, or anything flat-packed.

    Drill & Hang

    For anything that needs to go on a wall. Urban Company’s handyman in Singapore handles:

    • Drilling up to 10 holes — for mounting shelves, hooks, rails, or fixtures in HDB concrete, drywall, or timber stud walls
    • Mirror and shelf installation — wall-mounted mirrors, floating shelves, display ledges
    • Picture frames and artwork — single pieces or gallery walls

    If spare parts are needed, they can be sourced at market rates.

    TV Installation and Uninstallation

    • TV and home theatre installation — wall-bracket mounting for all TV sizes, cable management, home theatre setup
    • TV uninstallation — safe removal when you’re repainting, moving, or upgrading

    Curtains and Blinds

    • Curtain rod installation — fitting 2-bracket rods; additional brackets available
    • Blinds measurement and fitting — roller blinds, venetian blinds, roman blinds; includes measuring before installation

    Lock Installation

    • Door lock installation — fitting new locks on bedroom, bathroom, or main doors. Note: check if approval is required from your building management before installation in condos.

    Hourly Handyman (For Everything Else)

    Not everything fits a category. Urban Company’s hourly handyman booking covers the rest of your list — door hinge adjustments, cabinet fixes, minor repairs, light-touch carpentry, and general maintenance jobs that don’t fit elsewhere. Book by the hour and work through as many tasks as your time allows.

    If your task involves drilling, mounting, assembling, or fitting — Urban Company’s handyman in Singapore has it covered.

    How Is Urban Company’s Handyman Service Different from Calling a Regular Contractor?

    With Urban Company, you book by the hour — not by task. 1 professional handles your entire list in 1 visit.

    The traditional way most people in Singapore book a handyman: call a contractor for 1 job, get a quote per task, wait for an available slot (often days later), pay a call-out fee, then repeat the whole process for the next thing on your list.

    Typical contractorUrban Company handyman
    Booking modelPer taskBy the hour
    How many jobs per visitUsually 1As many as fit the time
    Arrival timeScheduled days ahead30 minutes
    ToolsBring your own? DependsFully equipped, every visit
    Professional vettingUnknownBackground-verified, rated
    Booking channelWhatsApp / phoneApp, any time

    Why Does Being Background-Verified Actually Matter?

    Because you’re letting someone into your home. Urban Company’s handyman professionals in Singapore are background-checked and rated by customers after every job — not anonymous freelancers found through a group chat.

    Before your Urban Company handyman arrives, you see their profile: name, photo, verified status, and ratings from previous customers. You know who’s coming before they knock on your door.

    For families in HDB flats in Tampines or Sengkang, condos in Tiong Bahru or Novena, or anyone who books when they’re at home alone — that matters more than most people say out loud.

    When Does Booking Urban Company’s Handyman Make the Most Sense?

    Any time you have more than 1 thing to fix — or when 1 thing has been sitting on your list long enough.

    The situations where Urban Company’s handyman visit pays for itself:

    • Post-BTO or post-renovation — a long punch list of finishing touches that keep getting delayed
    • School holidays — the family is home, you’ve noticed everything, and the weekend keeps disappearing
    • Before hosting — CNY, Deepavali, a dinner party. The house needs to look the way it should, and there’s no time to DIY.
    • New furniture arrives — flat-pack assembly takes a professional a fraction of the time it takes anyone else
    • The thing that’s been annoying you for months — the door that doesn’t close properly, the cabinet hinge that won’t stay shut, the shelf you still haven’t put up

    Urban Company’s handyman arrives in 30 minutes. If you’re having guests tonight and the TV still isn’t on the wall, that’s still a solvable problem.

    What Do You Need to Prepare Before Your Urban Company Handyman Arrives?

    Nothing. Your Urban Company handyman arrives fully equipped — drills, screwdrivers, wall plugs, levels, and fixings for standard home tasks are all brought to the job.

    It helps to have these ready:

    • The items you want assembled or installed (furniture in its boxes, brackets in their packaging)
    • A rough priority list of what you want done — your handyman will work through it in order
    • For wall mounting: knowing your wall type (HDB concrete, drywall, timber stud) saves a few minutes. If you’re not sure, your handyman can check on arrival.

    No hardware run. No searching for the right drill bit. No holding a shelf in place while someone else tries to mark the wall

    How Do You Book Urban Company’s Handyman Service in Singapore?

    Open the Urban Company app or website, select Handyman, choose your date and number of hours, and confirm. Your professional arrives in 30 minutes.

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    How many jobs can a handyman realistically complete in 2 hours?

    It depends on complexity, but as a rough guide: a standard 2-hour Urban Company handyman booking in Singapore can typically cover furniture assembly for 1 medium-sized item (like a wardrobe or bed frame) plus 2–3 smaller tasks (drilling shelves, hanging mirrors, fitting a curtain rod). If your list is mostly drilling and hanging with no large assemblies, you can move through 5–6 tasks comfortably. Prioritise your list before the handyman arrives — they’ll work through it in order.

    What happens if I need more time than I originally booked?

    You can extend the booking through the Urban Company app during the visit. Your handyman will continue working as long as the additional time is available on their schedule. It’s worth being upfront about your full list when booking so you start with a realistic duration — extending mid-visit works, but building in enough time from the start is more efficient.

    Do I need to be home during the Urban Company handyman visit?

    Yes — for most handyman jobs, you or another adult should be present throughout the visit. This is especially true for furniture assembly (you may want to confirm placement) and wall mounting (confirming exact positions before drilling). It also allows you to review the work as it’s completed and flag anything on the spot.

    Can Urban Company’s handyman help with post-renovation touch-ups in my new HDB or BTO?

    Yes. Post-renovation and BTO move-in are two of the most common reasons people book Urban Company’s handyman service in Singapore. Typical post-renovation tasks include installing curtain rods and blinds, assembling furniture that arrived during the renovation period, mounting the TV, drilling shelves, and fitting door locks. Booking an hourly slot means your handyman can move through the full move-in list in a single visit rather than scheduling multiple contractors.

    What if I’m not happy with the work after the handyman leaves?

    Urban Company offers a service warranty on completed jobs. If something isn’t right — a shelf isn’t level, a bracket isn’t secure — contact Urban Company through the app and the issue will be reviewed. Booking through a verified platform rather than an unvetted freelancer means you have a clear route to resolution if something needs to be corrected.

    Your list isn’t going to fix itself. Book an Urban Company handyman in Singapore →

  • What Would You Do With a Free Saturday?

    You work hard all week. Your Saturday shouldn’t be spent scrubbing the bathroom. Here’s what a weekly home cleaning session actually costs — and what you get back

    You know that feeling on a Friday evening when you clock off, finally exhale, and think: tomorrow is mine.

    Then Saturday morning arrives. You look around. The kitchen needs wiping down. The bathrooms aren’t going to clean themselves. There’s a layer of something on the fan blades you’ve been ignoring for two weeks. By the time you’re done, it’s 1pm. The best part of the day is gone. And somehow, you’re more tired than you were on Friday.

    This is the weekend a lot of Singaporeans are quietly living.

    The Saturday Tax

    Most dual-income households spend somewhere between 2 and 4 hours cleaning on weekends. That’s not a guess — it’s just the math of running a home when both partners are working full-time and nobody has time during the week.

    That 3 hours on Saturday isn’t neutral. It costs you the slow morning. The walk to the hawker centre without a deadline. The afternoon nap. The thing you kept saying you’d do “on the weekend” — the book, the run, the time with the kids that doesn’t involve rushing anywhere.

    It’s not that cleaning is the worst thing in the world. It’s that it reliably consumes the time you have the least of.

    What It Actually Costs to Get That Time Back

    A weekly 3-hour home cleaning session with Urban Company costs $57.

    That’s the Routine rate — the same trained, vetted cleaning professional, every week, who arrives fully equipped with everything needed to clean your home. No briefing. No providing supplies. No explaining where the toilet brush is for the fourth time.

    For context: $57 is roughly what most households spend on a family dinner out. It’s less than a tank of petrol. It’s a number that looks different when you put it next to 3 hours of your Saturday.

    If weekly feels like a lot, a fortnightly session runs $68 for 3 hours. Or you can start with a single Adhoc booking at $74 — no commitment, just one Saturday back.

    The Same Person, Every Week

    One thing that makes a real difference: with a Routine booking, you get the same cleaning professional assigned to your home every session.

    This matters more than it sounds. After a few visits, they know your home. They know the corner behind the sofa, the bathroom that needs more attention, the floors you care about most. You stop spending the first 20 minutes of every visit explaining things. It starts to feel less like a service and more like something that just works.

    What Happens to the Saturday

    This is the part worth thinking about.

    If you had a free Saturday morning — genuinely free, not “I’ll just quickly do the bathroom first” — what would you do with it?

    Families with young kids usually say the same thing: time with the kids that isn’t logistical. Not ferrying them to enrichment, not supervising homework. Just time. A walk to the park. Breakfast that lasts longer than 15 minutes.

    For couples without kids, it’s often simpler: sleep in. Go somewhere for brunch. Do the thing you’ve been putting off for six weekends in a row.

    It sounds small. It doesn’t feel small when you have it.

    Not Sure Where to Start?

    If a weekly commitment feels like a big step, it doesn’t have to be. Options:

    • Adhoc booking — one session, no contract, from $52 for 2 hours or $74 for 3 hours
    • 4-Visit Pack — pay upfront, redeem at your own pace, from $188 for 2-hour sessions
    • Routine — weekly or fortnightly, same professional every time, from $38

    All cleaning professionals are trained, background-checked, and arrive fully equipped. You don’t need to provide anything.

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    How much does a weekly home cleaning session cost in Singapore?

    A weekly Routine session with Urban Company starts from $38 for 2 hours, $57 for 3 hours, or $69 for 4 hours. The rate is per session and applies when you book a recurring weekly schedule.

    Do I need to provide cleaning supplies or equipment?

    No. Urban Company cleaning professionals arrive fully equipped with all tools and cleaning solutions. You don’t need to prepare anything before they arrive.

    Can I get the same cleaner every time?

    Yes. With a Routine booking (weekly or fortnightly), the same cleaning professional is assigned to your home for every session. They learn your home and your preferences over time — no rebriefing needed.

    What’s the difference between a Routine and an Adhoc booking?

    A Routine is a recurring booking — weekly, twice a week, or fortnightly — at a lower per-session rate with the same professional each time. An Adhoc is a one-off session, useful if you want to try the service before committing or if your schedule is irregular

    What if I want flexibility — not a fixed weekly schedule?

    The 4-Visit Cleaning Pack lets you pay upfront for 4 sessions and redeem them whenever suits you.

    How do I know the cleaning professional is trustworthy?

    All Urban Company cleaning professionals are trained, background-checked, and rated by customers after every session. You can see their ratings and reviews in the app before booking.