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Bathroom comes with the house??!!

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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:
GoofyIsACow · 30/07/2018 21:06

donquixote because you can bookmark but unless you have commented on the thread it won’t appear anywhere, you would have to either watch it, or just find it again, which would require remembering which threads you had bookmarked.
Also... everyone’s different...

Onecutefox · 30/07/2018 21:06

Well, OP, fingers crossed as the bathroom stealers may say we know nothing about it. We moved out and that it. Whatever happened after that it's not our responsibility. That's why hopefully you have some written evidence of your discussion but still. Did you ask any neighbours if they had seen anything?

Onecutefox · 30/07/2018 21:08

donquixotedelamancha, I didn't know about the three dots either!!! Many thanks!

PurpleFlower1983 · 30/07/2018 21:09

Wow! And the CF of the Month Award goes to...

DesignStatement · 30/07/2018 21:10

Wow

Pixel99 · 30/07/2018 21:25

donquixotedelamancha - not sure if I have those dots - I will check. Thank you.

Wonkypalmtree · 30/07/2018 21:28

U

donquixotedelamancha · 30/07/2018 21:29

@GoofyIsACow because you can bookmark but unless you have commented on the thread it won’t appear anywhere, you would have to either watch it, or just find it again, which would require remembering which threads you had bookmarked.
Also... everyone’s different...

Wasn't me that asked. I just posted how to do it for anyone unsure.

donquixotedelamancha · 30/07/2018 21:30

@Onecutefox @Pixel99 Most welcome.

Ariela · 30/07/2018 21:38

@TopShagger - your post made me laugh
It's called moving house for a reason. It involves moving the house. Many people assume it just means gathering your belongings and relocating them to a different house - this is incorrect. When moving house the house must be moved - the people just taking personal effects are doing it wrong.

because it reminded me of when my daughter was about 3 and her best friend, also 3, was moving house, and we were going round to help them move.... She said 'When we help them move house we'll have to push very hard, won't we?!'

Tiredtomybones · 30/07/2018 21:38

Yanbu

Warpdrive · 30/07/2018 21:44

I’m really hoping there’s another thread by an utterly bemused MNer, wondering why her CF sellers have left their bathroom behind and what on earth is she going to do with 2 bathrooms?

helpfulperson · 30/07/2018 21:50

Apparently in Germany people always take the kitchen and bathroom with them particularly when renting and they are built with this in mind.

But definitely not the norm in the UK.

GoofyIsACow · 30/07/2018 21:55

Sorry, did i misunderstand?

Bathroom comes with the house??!!
Onecutefox · 30/07/2018 22:03

helpfulperson, it's only makes sense for taking away white goods but not the cupboards, sinks, bath.

PsychedelicSheep · 30/07/2018 22:07

Goofy I might be being ridiculous but I use the app and there is no watch this thread button that I've been able to find 🤷🏽‍♀️

Bathroom comes with the house??!!
donquixotedelamancha · 30/07/2018 22:10

@GoofyIsACow Sorry, did i misunderstand?

I was quoting a PP. They were irritated by placemaking, so me placemaking to find out the answer is ironic because.....- No, you didn't misunderstand at all. Thank you for the explanation of why people placemark, it was most helpful.

OliviaStabler · 30/07/2018 22:14

So we're getting somewhere, slowly but things are happening!

I'm sorry but you are not currently getting anywhere. If the sellers get back to their solicitor, then that is a first step.

mummabubs · 30/07/2018 22:15

Really hope you get it sorted OP, what cheeky numpties! (Trying to curb my swearing this week!)

Funnily enough we had the opposite issue with our house- the 3 men who owned it before us decided to just leave all the furniture they didn't want anymore including cheap naff wardrobes, garden furniture, a concrete leveller and an attic full of crap. (Including a Christmas tree which the CFs then knocked on our front door a few months later to demand back!!) My DH answered the door and got it for them, had it been me they'd have never got it back but I would have offered to bill them for all the effort we had to go through to get rid of their rubbish!!

GoofyIsACow · 30/07/2018 22:16

@PsychedelicSheep on mine there are these three dots which when pressed offer the option to watch the thread.

Ahh @donquixotedelamancha i missed the irony, sorry.

Bathroom comes with the house??!!
Mentounasc · 30/07/2018 22:24

OK, Germany keeps on getting cited here as a country where it is perfectly normal to take your kitchen AND bathroom with you when you sell a house.

That is so not the case, at least not these days. It would be normal to take bathroom cabinets and towel rails, but it would be incredibly weird to take the loo or sink. The assumption is that they are present unless explicitly exempted. In rented properties it is not legal to rent a room as a bathroom without providing the actual loo etc.

It's slightly more common with rented properties at the lower end of the scale to find that they're rented out with just a standalone cooker and cheap sink, and most people will install their own fitted kitchen which they will of course want to take with them. But here in Berlin you also quite often find outgoing tenants asking new tenants for a rather illegal payment to take over any 'improvements' like a kitchen. Sometimes that's the only way to guarantee you'll be the person to get a flat (huge housing shortage). A refugee I know has just taken over a tiny flat and can't afford to install a kitchen so at the moment he just has the basic stove, sink and has bought a used fridge, but that's fine.

It is extremely uncommon to buy a house or flat with no kitchen (would probably only happen if a previously rented property were being sold off), and it's unheard of here in Berlin to actually remove a kitchen that was already installed at the viewing. A lot of friends here have bought properties - I don't know of a single one where the kitchen or bathroom has been removed beforehand by the vendors. If I'd viewed a house with kitchen and bathroom and then got the keys after completion only to find them gone, I would absolutely have been going for compensation. So all the people saying that this is standard for Germany - either you're mistaken, or are thinking of the past, or things are regionally very different.

donquixotedelamancha · 30/07/2018 22:28

@GoofyIsACow No worries.

@PsychedelicSheep Watch thread is in a dropdown at the top of the thread for me. Dots are bottom right of each post. But I don't use an app.

PigletJohn · 30/07/2018 22:30

my Italian friend mentioned that people move their kitchen units when they move. It just came up in conversation recently.

Mummymummums · 30/07/2018 22:35

I think your solicitor needs to be sending a 'letter before action'. They need to reinstate forthwith or cough up to replace. No harm in doing that, because whatever way you look at it the vendors have behaved appallingly, and you need to start a clock ticking for action, while they will undoubtedly time waste.

soupey1 · 30/07/2018 22:35

When we bought this house the vendors took up all the carpets and removed all the light bulbs but did leave us the bathroom!