Taking shelves when moving house

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We are due to move in a few months. We have long and quite expensive scaffold board shelving in our kitchen - AIBU to take it with us when we move?

My mum always takes most of her garden plants. I’d say it’s unusual. She takes carpets as well!

here's a brilliant thought inform the vendor - no probs

Scaff boards are like £1 per foot. Just buy new ones.

Digging up bulbs - how would the new owners even know they existed unless they happened to look around at the time they were flowering?!

Clearly some of you aren't gardeners.

I have plants I've nurtured for years, grown from seed, rare plants, ancient plants. Unless the new owner of my house is Monty Don then I doubt they'd be appreciated for what they are, so if they could survive the upheaval then I'd be taking them with me. And making that very clear to anyone looking around the house.

If it's in the photos and not explicitly stated they are not included in the fixtures and fittings list you must leave them

That made me laugh. Of course this isn't true.
A typical EA photo of a kitchen will include kettles, toasters, mugs, plates, decorative ornaments. Even the cat. Are you really suggesting that someone would need to sit and list every item in the photo as not included

There is some degree of common sense needed from both buyer and seller. Just because the cat is in the picture doesn't mean it comes with the house.

Our vendor did this! Took all the shelves down in the kitchen and living room and did a shit polyfiller job on the holes it left. They also left a drawing of a pair of tits in the kitchen drawer

@WhentheDealGoesDown

Is your house already for sale and are they in the photos.

The furniture is in the photos. You don’t expect that to be included.

I can’t believe people actually remove plants from gardens when they move. I thought petty people like this were just a myth.

I once removed one plant when we moved - it had been a wedding gift. I replaced it, though.

Danglinmod That I can understand and would probably do the same.

I’ve just googled scaffold board shelving. It’s cheap as chips, why would you even think of taking it? Having said that, I’d be imploring the vendor to take them to save me a trip to the tip.

Also, "if it's attached it stays" is nonsense.

Baby swings and gym/exercise equipment are often attached to floors, walls, ceilings or door frames. Would you expect those to stay?

@Nicknacky so what if a lot of the plants in the garden had been gifts or had sentimental value (ie had been your late dad's prize roses or whatever). Or you'd planted things in memory of a pet/child/grandmother. Or a rare plant you spent years searching for. They're the kind of plants people usually take, not random bedding plants they got down B&Q.

If they're not included in the estate agents description of your kitchen (they won't be), take them with you.

You would tell the buyer verbally when showing them around and put on the fixtures and fittings form (and would be nice to infill with something cheap and cheerful). You can't just remove loads of plants from the garden without telling the buyer.

howaboutchocolate So take them all and replace them with a like for like if they are so important to you. But don’t leave the garden without replacing them.

Anything other than that is petty as fuck.

[quote legfaced]@lukasiak it’s not half the kitchen - it’s two shelves that are very much not part of the fully fitted kitchen which we obviously aren’t going to rip out [/quote]
So why are you asking then?

AIBU? - some posters say yes you are

What is the actual point in asking in the first place?

Take them if you want, just let the buyers know you intend to before you leave.

@Nicknacky even if it was made perfectly clear that they would be going when any potential buyers were shown around?
If I had never planted them in the first place or had kept them in pots then they wouldn't be included in the sale. Most people probably wouldn't even notice they'd gone, I have a lot of plants.

howaboutchocolate To be honest, I would be put off buying a house from someone who was removing plants from the garden and went to pains to point it out. Only if it was the complete house of my dreams that comes up once in a blue moon would I consider it.

Decorative shelving is perfectly OK to take....in fact, it's often irritating to move into a house where the last person hasn't bothered to remove their shelves and I have to do it as I want shelving in different places. Like folk leaving their old pictures up....

Shelving which is built in as part of a fitted kitchen is different and needs to stay, but from what you are saying it looks like your shelves are just added extras, not part of the kitchen units so OK to go.

a lot of very overdramatic posters on this thread. If they're not listed in the fixtures and fittings, you can take them. When my brother bought his first house, he hadn't checked the list carefully enough and the seller took all the carpets!

I'd say that was fine as long as you list it in the inventory as being taken.

You also need to repaint the wall once you've damaged it by ripping the shelves off.

I wouldnt care so much youd taken the shelves but if you made a mess of paintwork I'd be calling the solicitor to complain about the state you had left it and then likely mention you had taken the shelves.

I can sort of understand people taking carpets, after all they are "used". Would you really want someone elses carpets, it's a bit like keeping their mattress. Plus you will need them for your next house.

This is bizarre, if I had some shelves for decorative items in another room then of course I would take them down. I think people have seen 'kitchen' and jumped to the conclusion that it is part of the kitchen. When we bought our house the woman had taken every single curtain pole with her. They are more permanent and necessary than shelves!

NotShiny Of course people don’t take carpets to use in new houses😂.

And what do you do if you take your carpet and the new house had carpets already?!