Do you change the locks/front door/ toilet seat when you move house?

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Did you change the locks/front door/ toilet seat when you moved house?

Seems common sense to change the locks, although I hadn't actually thought about it until recently. My friend is moving and the seller they bought house from lives a short walk from the house 🤔Seller dragged their heels for ages and left the house quite untidy. They left a number of keys for the door. Friend wonders how many other copies of the key might exist.

Have you ever tried smashing one of those panels op? It’s not simple. It’ll be toughened safety glass.

Locks, yes- they were really flimsy and crappy and didn’t feel secure at all.
Front door, no. Every house on our road has an identical one- black with etched glass panel- it might even be in the lease that we can’t change them.
Toilet, one of them, yes, because the whole bathroom was awful so we replaced it straight away. The others, no.

Change the locks - yes, within a couple of weeks of moving.

Front door - no, way too expensive. Always lived in period properties that have large old wooden front doors with stained/ leaded glass.

Toilet seat - yes, as I like a slow closing seat but if that was already in the new property and in good condition, no.

Not always - I don't think I changed the locks on my last house. This one I did as it was brass and I'm a chrome/nickel person so just changed it. I'd like to change the door itself but it is a really solid heavy one and the door I'd want is about £3000 so it's staying. Never occurred to me to change the toilet seat! But I actually put new toilets in last four properties so guess yea changed those too.

We are buying a new build and will change the barrels on the day we move in and flog the locks and keys being replaced on eBay or give them away. Never ever, last house was a new build and the builder kept a key fast forward two years later and he tried it - our dogs got to the front door and he ran away (all on cctv) he claimed he was returning it !! X

Yes, that's partly why DH changed the locks every time.

Do you not have a pane of (probably double glazed) glass in every room…called a …window🤣🤣🤣

It's not a ground floor property 🤣🤣🤣

Locks...absolutely 👍🏻

Door...why would you, unless it was knackered/unsightly?

Toilet seat...bleach is your friend here 👍🏻

I scrubbed the toilet seats that were left oddly some were gone when we moved in . As well as a lot of other things that should have been left . The locks I changed but not straight away I really wanted them done as the previous owners turned up a couple of times and I didn't know if they still had keys .

Yes there are but they did not get the memo

house purchase after very acrimonious divorce between people who drink too much and have seriously impaired judgement

Toilet seat yes. Locks I've never thought about. I did change the outside doors but not for that reason.