Taking light bulbs from old house to new house

[EasterBun2001]

When we bought our first home we invested in LED lightbulbs throughout which are not cheap but have paid for themselves in ridiculously low energy bills.

Now looking at moving, my sensible head wants to bring the bulbs with me but I feel like this would be unreasonable for anyone moving in.

What would you do?

I’d always take the LED ones with us but I would leave some cheapies in their place so whoever moves in can see what they’re doing

My fixtures and fitting list states that I need to leave bulbs!

Christ, I've heard everything now.... I can't believe you'd even contemplate leaving no bulbs.....

I was surprised to see that they had packed all of our lightbulbs. I asked about it and they said that it was standard practice

Wow - it really isn't!

I was a Social Worker for many years. I helped a lovely old lady arrange her house move once, she was in a wheelchair and had no legs and was more or less incapable. It was in Hove and if you know the area you will remember all the houses have around the seafront area have very very high ceilings to reach them a very long ladder would be needed. I arranged the removals, somewhere for her to stay while the move was going on etc all the arrangements to make it as smooth as possible for her. When I went back to the flat for a final check to make sure everything had been removed, things turned off. locked up etc I realised that all the light bulbs had been removed! it is still a mystery to me how this was done

Swap if you want but very low and mean to leave them without .

When I bought my first flat the previous owners had taken all the bulbs. I had to get a taxi to the hardware shop (London, no car) buy a step ladder and bulbs and get a taxi back. I was gutted and it completely stole the thunder of getting the keys to my 1st home.
Leave some bulbs!

I'd take them with me, they're not part of usual fixtures. Just put the run of the mill ones in so they're not left without :)

What are these W every saving light bulbs?

From someone whose moved house in last 3 months you are supposed to leave a bulb. If you want your expensive ones take them but you need to replace with something thats in a working order.

I did a house exchange and she took the bulbs which was pathetic as the house she was exchanging too had different style bulbs completely she knew it was useless to her did it anyways

Take them, buy a few cheap ones from poundland and dot them around the house, then you arent been unreasonable. I live in rented and up unzil recently couldnt havw afforded to leave such luxuries. Although I always have got the keys for new one first, then I have checked if there are lightbulbs and taken what I need always insuring I try to leave one on each floor at least.

Don't be so tight

My friend did a mutual ( housing association ) exchange with the family next door and she took all of her bulbs - neighbours then knocked to say could they come in and take their bulbs as they had left them for her but she’d left none for them and they were in darkness. How cringey. She does have form for being tight though.

I would leave them if you are selling the house to nice buyers and they've paid a good price, but I would replace them with cheap ones if the buyer was a CF or if they got a good bargain.

If it's a rental however, take them and replace with cheap ones. You can't leave a house with no lightbulbs, that would be wrong.

I agree with everyone else... replace with cheapies.

Our sellers took the toilet seat - walked in and there was a load of paper and plastic in the bathroom which turned out to be the wrapping of the new cheap one they had left in place of the one that was previously there. The one that must have been so special that they took it but one which we couldn't remember at all!!! Maybe it was gold plated or something. The new cheap pink plastic one was not even fitted properly and we had to lower ourselves on to it with care. Mind you, given that the place was not left very clean at all, I was rather pleased that we had a shiny, albeit rather flimsy, new one!! (Which still got cleaned)

Be sure to take a al the copper wiring, any radiators, wallpaper and any lead off the roof as well, jeees! How tight are you?????

Take the bath plug too.

It’s surprising what people will take. When we moved into our new house, the previous owners had taken all the curtains ( nothing was said about this before) so we had a few nights with the street lights shining in 😔

Providing you replace them with cheap bulbs then absolutely take them with you. However if you weren't intending to replace them then I think that's definitely unreasonable, especially if the new owners aren't aware they'd immediately need to replace every bulb in the house

We moved house last year and were shocked by the way the property was left. We promptly contacted our solicitor and raised a complaint.

When I bought a house a few years ago, we found that they had left an entire cupboard filled with lightbulbs to go with every fitting in the house. Granted, he was an electrician so obviously got them at trade prices, and they were emigrating so couldn’t take them with them, but it was still a lovely kind gesture. I didn’t have to buy a single light bulb the whole time I lived there.

We have Philip hue bulbs I’d be taking them but would replace with standard bulbs

Please leave something behind! I moved into a house years ago where the previous owners took just about everything that wasn’t nailed down - carpets, curtain rails, light bulbs. It was ridiculous. Nowadays you have those forms to complete, thank goodness.