Bathroom comes with the house??!!

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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??!!

Yes, YogaPants, I have things like those, but they are old, used, from parents and grandparents. Btw, we are already in Devon and will move to somewhere smaller in Devon - I don't suppose your gps are selling?!

My first house was a terraced house with bathroom on ground floor. It has been refurbished with new heating system. Then I bought it. Completed on Thursday and moved in after work on Friday, was my first house so I had very little stuff to move. When I arrived “someone” had broken in and stolen the boiler and all the internal doors. They’d broken the bathroom window to gain entry, except all the glass was outside in the yard, not in the bath. So the window had been broken from the inside.

Luckily, we had started the insurance from the completion day. We called the police, they took fingerprints and proved the seller/refurbisher was the “thief”. Our insurance covered the broken window, the seller’s insurance replaced everything else.

Yoga I'm with Jux. In my house in Cornwall, I have one run of fitted units, and that's it. Everything else is freestanding and suits me. My last three rentals in belgium have had fitted kitchens, and two of them were ill thought out. The current one isn't bad, but I'd still rip it out and put some other bits to suit me were it my house.

How are you getting on OP? I'd get quotes from a plumber before accepting an amount this week from the sellers.

I'll be taking my non fitted kitchen when I sell, it was bespoke made to my requirements and is unlikely to suit anyone else. I will declare it but at the point the valuation survey takes place it will be in situ. So how would the bank know, would they actually study the fixtures and fittings list? If it's a problem I'll put in a used cheap 2 unit kitchen with 2nd hand cooker but what a waste.

Wish someone had taken my bathroom... Could have don't with a fancy new one at their cost.

@Jux they sold up 15 years ago and immigrated to be with my parents. Their furniture followed them a few months behind in a shipping container. Who knows what the kitchen is like now?

ah well, hope they're happy in sunnier climes. I shall just have to rip out whatever kitchen is there when we move (dh won't let me )

OP, sorry for hijack,

Hope your solicitor is well into getting you massive compensation and replacement/installation costs. Your vendors are bonkers, but at least if they're now in rented then the amount you paid should be still in their possession somewhere. (Oh, and the longer you are without a bathromm there, the higher the compensation should be, day rates.)

As PPs have mentioned be careful about what compensation amount is offered. The most important part of fitting a bathroom is the bits you don’t see i.e. all the waterproofing under wall and floor tiles. It can add a couple of thousand onto the cost but will save you so much grief later. If they removed the old bathroom in a hurry it’s very likely they will have breached membranes behind and under the fittings.

At least they were stupid enough to admit it to the solicitor! What are they going to do with their portable bathroom though? Assuming their sellers haven't done the same and there is in fact a bath in their new place?

And Ariela this is the most adorable thing I've ever heard
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?!'

I’ve got a fitted kitchen. It’s a beautiful hand made wooden kitchen. It does have an enormous free standing range cooker though that the previous owners left. There are very slight gaps either side and the food that gets down there, my god. We occasionally drag the cooker out - it weighs a ton and is chained to the wall - and the floor is just disgusting. At least where I’ve got my lovely fitted granite worktops I don’t get food stuck. A dresser is always nice though. Mines in the dining room.

As well as cost of suite and fitting, don't forget compensation for the buggeration factor - the having workmen in and the days without the bathroom.

When I was at University I worked for a solicitor and I managed house sales and purchases. We often had vendors take things like clotheslines (which had been concreted into the garden!) with them, but over never come across a vendor taking a whole fitted bathroom with them. That’s next level!

Should they wish to, mortgages companies will be able to check for the presence of a kitchen by looking on the rightmove listing. For a basic valuation, they can get all the information they need from the Internet.

This is mental!

What's the latest, OP?

Ooooo peeeeee! Where are you!!

I know youre busy moving into your new home but were all dying to hear an update. Please come back OP 😂😂

"Paint never matches because the colour changes once the sun gets on it on the wall; nobody ever replaces the odd bathroom tile; and who on earth keeps "spare" cupboard doors hanging round anyway?"

I recently renovated our kitchen. There was a hideous railway sleeper arch in the middle which had been tiled around. I was extremely grateful of the four spare floor tiles I found in the barn I needed to make good the floor.

When I removed the fitted oven (and installed a range) I was very grateful of the spare cupboard door i found in the roof space to create a matching storage space where old oven had been.

Our vendor didn't leave a decent kitchen. Everything was rotten and we had the "pleasure" to enter a bidding war for the privilege. While some of you have inherited proper kitchens AND spares!! Amazing!!!

Painting patches can show a different colour but another small wall at a different angle won't show!

And funnily enough, George Clarke last night had a woman who didn't like kitchens, and he put in all her antique free standing kitchen furniture and it was bloody lovely.

I love freestanding kitchens. Our last house had nothing bar a gas stove and a very old, 50ies style sink unit. We replaced the cooker but kept the sink unit and just popped in some wooden cabinets and it worked brilliantly.

Jux I saw that and liked it too

OP are you there were???

....that made no sense! Where are you OP?? Xx