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Bathroom comes with the house??!!

607 replies

greencygnets · 29/07/2018 12:10

So DH and I have just bought a new house (not brand new but new to us :)) and it cost us a lot of money (far more than a care to admit! :))
We moved in yesterday, the house is perfect except for one thing...

They've taken the bloody bathroom with them!!!!

One of the two main bathrooms upstairs is literally empty, like I don't mean just the furniture which you obviously take with you. But they've taken the bath, sink and shower!!!!

The room is tiled but theres random pipes sticking out of walls where these things should be!! The only thing left is the toilet. I honestly don't know what to do... We were going to redo the bathroom anyway at some point but never told this to anybody and weren't planning to do so until at least November/December time but now we don't have a choice!!

The kids come home from the holiday with my in-laws on Tuesday and we've got no bathroom for them!!!!

AIBU to think that the bathroom comes with the house, or is it totally reasonable to take the bathroom with you to your new house??!!

OP posts:
PlateOfBiscuits · 30/07/2018 09:26

Any news OP?

RollaCola84 · 30/07/2018 09:42

The woman I bought my house off prised the socket you plug a landline cable into and took it with her. I vaguely remember her saying she wanted to keep the phone number she had there, maybe she thought that was how you do it Hmm

People are strange. Hope your solicitor sorts it out OP.

MissCherryCakeyBun · 30/07/2018 09:45

Waiting to hear about bathroom saga Grin

Summernamechange · 30/07/2018 09:50

I came on just for an update on this!

ThumbWitchesAbroad · 30/07/2018 10:35

I know one conveyancer who could quite easily be the OP's conveyancer and do what the OP says they have done (Probably isn't actually the OP's, but where there's one, there will be others)

Somethinginmyloft · 30/07/2018 10:40

OP if you are in England the seller will have completed, and as buyers you and your solicitor should have reviewed prior to exchange, the property information form which will have detailed all fixtures and fittings. Do you have a copy of this form and what is specified on this form re the bathroom? www.lawsociety.org.uk/support-services/advice/articles/ta-form-specimens/

ShatnersWig · 30/07/2018 10:40

This one could run and run

Somethinginmyloft · 30/07/2018 10:42

Specifically it is the fittings and contents form (TA10) that would have specified fixtures and fittings.

DBN1 · 30/07/2018 10:56

OP, have you been in contact with your conveyancing solicitor yet?

Strawberry2017 · 30/07/2018 11:10

Who on earth could be bothered removing a whole bathroom suite? Especially if moving to another country!
That's so random!

GiantPandaAttacks · 30/07/2018 11:11

county, not country. I’m sure that this has been clarified quite a few times!

Tinty · 30/07/2018 11:25

Did they want the extra hour because they hadn't finished removing the bathroom Grin.

MsAdorabelleDearheartVonLipwig · 30/07/2018 11:28

SheCame I can't be bothered to argue with you

Oh good. Perhaps we can get back to the thread now, instead of all this endless arguing off topic?

Op what happened?

Stompythedinosaur · 30/07/2018 11:31

Did they want the extra hour because they hadn't finished removing the bathroom?

GrinGrinGrin

nightwispa · 30/07/2018 11:38

Once you've completed, you are personally liable for anything that goes wrong(/right) in that property. The fact that you completed on Friday and let them stay on for an extra day means replacing the bathroom falls to you. You're lucky they didn't trash the place further. That's my very limited understanding of the whole thing. Very interested to hear what your solicitor says.

PlatypusPie · 30/07/2018 11:47

The woman I bought my house off prised the socket you plug a landline cable into and took it with her. I vaguely remember her saying she wanted to keep the phone number she had there, maybe she thought that was how you do it

😧

TheBigFatMermaid · 30/07/2018 11:57

Hopefully you have got hold of the solicitor now, what have they said about it?

ForTheLoveOfCakes · 30/07/2018 11:58

Never heard of anything like this happening before, have you heard from your solicitor?

Mrsdraper1 · 30/07/2018 12:07

I agree with a pp who said the sellers have engineered this so you wouldn't be able to take action over the weekend and they will never be seen or heard from again.

HollowTalk · 30/07/2018 12:08

It would be much better if the estate agent had to sign off the house, saying that all fixtures and fittings are present and the house is in a clean state before completion.

TheHodgeoftheHedge · 30/07/2018 12:11

Hope your solicitor is sorting this :)

OVienna · 30/07/2018 12:11

I agree totally Hollow. It's one of the few things from the US (American born) I would export here. There, it's called a 'walk through.' It makes so much sense, I really cannot understand why it doesn't happen here.

DGRossetti · 30/07/2018 12:11

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flamingofridays · 30/07/2018 12:11

Well it's a good job you've got a big clever man to take care of all the tricksy-wicksy legal stuff with his extra-large male brain, eh?

oh fuck off, some people just aren't interested / don't care / haven't the time / don't understand all the legalities of conveyancing - it has NOTHING to do with the fact that OP is a woman.

chaplin1409 · 30/07/2018 12:17

This thread has made me laugh. Is there any updates