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?

We took all of our Phillips hue £50 each bulbs with us but went to toolstation and brought cheap ones so they had working lights when they moved in.
I also had my house completely cleaned and left it spotless and nearly cried when we walked into our new home and it was filthy!!

People we bought our home from did this and left us with none. Always thought it made them seem cheap and petty. Leave lightbulbs, even if you put in some cheap ones. And leave some loo roll!

There is a 1980s movie called The Chain about removal men trying to do a chain of seven moves in one day. One of the people being moved (played, I think, by Nigel Hawthorne) took all the lightbulbs and door handles. He was not a sympathetic character.

But as I remember, the removal men had the last laugh on him - they didn't take his furniture to the new house, but ditched it somewhere else.

No one reasonably expect to find light bulbs, it's a bonus if there are

Of course you expect to find light bulbs. I’ve never not found them in any house I’ve bought or rented.

I have never had any bulbs in any of the houses I’ve moved into... but I wouldn’t leave a house without any. It’s a small gesture

I would as we pay a lot to have Philip's hue ones in every room. I would swap them for normal bulbs though, not just them bare!

In the house I’m in now the woman had taken all the bulbs but left us a lovely hamper for a welcome and a beautiful card wishing us well in the house! It was such a lovely start...

When we moved 6 weeks ago, I left every blind and curtain in the house, every single light fitting (not just bulbs but whole chandelier fittings / fancy fittings), spare tiles for kitchen and bathroom, spare floor tiles, paint for every room colour, spare laminate boards, (everything labelled), bought spare fuses for the electric board and taped them to it for the next owner, left the marble chopping boards we had cut to match the (new) marble worktops in the kitchen, left all blinds and curtains in the summerhouse, painted and filled all holes in the walls where pictures had been hung etc. We even replaced a carpet that was in the dining room so that it was completely fresh and new for the next owner. The place was scrubbed top to bottom.
We had told the agent we were taking the marble fireplace with us, so we did this but replaced it with a very similar marble fireplace we bought cheaply online, with a brand new electric fire still in box left for the new owner.

I wanted the next people to have no hassle at all, and left it as I would have wanted to find it if I were moving in.

I can't believe people would take light bulbs and door handles. This is beyond mean. What goes around comes around!

In Scotland, the standard conditions of sale include light bulbs, rotary clothes driers and similar. Which is civilised.

@Penelopeschat I left loo roll too! And washing up liquid and soap in bathrooms x

As long as you say to prospective purchasers, 'btw we will be taking the lightbulbs'. You were going to yes?

At least replace them with cheaper ones.

When I moved out of my flat, I left cheap bulbs, a toilet roll and taped an A4 sheet of paper behind the door in each room, giving the measurements of the room, the size of the windows and the dimensions of each appliance space in the kitchen.

I'd take my smart bulbs with me, not least because they'd just be a pita to someone who didn't have a bridge and/or didn't want smart bulbs. But also because I wouldn't want to buy them again.

I'd replace with mid range quality bulbs before I left, though. I'd also leave loo roll, spare speciality bulbs (e.g. the spare oven bulb) etc.

Take them with you, but replace with cheap ones. Absolutely fine to do that, just don't not replace the bulbs you take. In the house we bought all the light fittings and bulbs had been taken and replaced with single pendants with a cheap bulb in, but this was disclosed in the house particulars so we expected it.

When I moved out of my council house to do an exchange, I took all the lightbulbs out & replaced them with cheap ones. They weren't expensive bulbs but ones that were extremely hard to get as they were tinted pale pink, I got to the place we were moving to & she had taken every bulb & half the curtain rails, I rang her to bring the curtain rails back & the CF brought all the rubbish I had put in the bins at my old house & dumped it in the communal ones where I was now living.

England is quite civilised too because the standard fixtures and fittings form here also says 'leave working light fittings; to include cable, connection and bulb'. OP just needs to read that as does the buyer.

LED prices have plummeted, no point paying extra as all the light emitting elements last years and you take your chances on the electronics which can fail in a day, a month or a year.

anyone who has bought farty voice control jobs can take them and replace with a poundland bulb. unless you are disabled, a switch on the wall is the way to go, assuming everyone in the house is sufficiently intelligent to turn it off when not in use.

You have to leave it how it looked when contracts were exchanged to an extent, so just replace with cheap bulbs.

Buy cheap ones to replace.
Imagine after a heyic moving day coming into your lovely new home when it's almost dark and realising there's no lightbulbs. I'd be beyond pissed.

Yes Kyriesmum1 - we're planning to move and I intend to leave lightbulbs (including spares for awkward fittings), and loo roll, hand-wash and washing up liquid - just whatever is on hand when we're going, not bought especially. And lists of how things work, local facilities, that sort of stuff.

Are you even certain that the new place has the same fittings that work with your precious bulbs?

Unbelievably tight to swap the bulbs for cheap ones. When you compare it to how much a house is, is it really worth it to be so petty?

No one reasonably expect to find light bulbs, it's a bonus if there are

Yeah, they do.
Reasonably, & CONTRACTUALLY.

No one reasonably expect to find light bulbs, it's a bonus if there are

Have you RTFT?

Everybody expects to find lightbulbs!

No one reasonably expect to find light bulbs, it's a bonus if there are

Oh My god of course everyone expects to find lightbulbs. If you move in in the evening your going to be trying to put new ones in in the dark otherwise. If you leave a rental and anyone of the light bulbs have gone you'll be charged. Obviously when you're selling it's different but common courtesy definitely dictates that you leave working light bulbs!

No one expects to find lightbulbs when they move in? This is honestly the most insane stupid thing I’ve ever read on here.