A really dull thread about fixtures and fittings

[LadyBiscuit]

Have a buyer for my flat (yay) so now I need to fill in That Form. I am thinking I will take the bathroom wall cabinets (which fit perfectly in the wall spaces in the bathroom but are only Ikea and aren't built in) and the mirror. And the wooden blinds in the living room and the lined curtains in my DS's bedroom. And the light shades (there is a fitted sun light in my DS's room which I would quite like to take too). Is that okay do you think?

I can't believe the form asks about door handles and electrical sockets.

Why don't you ask buyer if he or she wants anything first? I think that would be the nice thing to do.

Are the blinds actually going to fit your new house windows?

Don't forget that if you take anything down, you have to make good and paint the walls.

Do you really have to littlefish? I have to repaint the walls behind every single picture and mirror and cupboard fixing??

lalalonglegs - that's a good idea. I guess I can put that on the form

orienteer - dunno. Not bought a new place yet!

I think Littlefish meant you are meant to fill in holes left by rawlplugs if you take a bathroom cabinet down, not paint behind hung pictures.

Does everyone do this? The miserable so-and-sos who sold us this place certainly didn't make good after wrenching stuff off the walls!

Sorry - I meant, to re-paint the holes where you have filled them. Not the walls

We spent hours making good where we had taken things off the walls when we left our last house.

Sorry - I got what you meant. But do you actually have to do that? I had loads of holes left in the walls from the previous owners in this place. And I cannot get the massive mirror off the wall in my living room myself so unless I'm running round with a tube of polyfilla and a pot of paint behind the removal men, I'm not going to be able to do that

Our buyers got their solicitors to write to our solicitors to remind us to do it!

Can you get someone to come round the day before to help you get the mirror off the wall to give you time to fill and paint the holes? I think if you can possibly do it, then you should.

We once moved into a house on dec 4th at 4pm to find the previous owners had taken the light fitting (as agreed) by switching off the mains and cutting through the flex about 1" below the ceiling rose....

When you say 'got a buyer' I assume you mean they've made an offer. So you can put on the form stuff you would sell to them but otherwise plan to take with you.

Personally I tend to leave stuff behind unless I am sure I have a use for it at the new place - especially curtains and so forth. They never seem to fit.

My windows are all standard sash width as are the windows of most of the houses I'm looking at. Given I'm moving from a 2 bed flat to a 4 bedroom house or bigger, I think I will take them as at least I'll be able to get a couple of the windows covered then. They're not fitted. I won't take the fitted blinds - that would be silly.

at your vendors ootwpurple!

I am not going to fill in holes. Fuck it

You are obliged to fill the holes but please do it nicely. Our last seller gouged huge holes into the walls when taking down curtain poles and they slapped a ridiculous amount of plaster into/over said poles. We had to decorate anyway because of this - they'd forgotten to leave the paints as promised too.

Are you sure I'm obliged? I have had bare rawl plugs in walls in both places I've bought

I am happy to fill them though and leave them a pot of paint. They are all labelled with the appropriate room and stacked neatly in the shed

You haven't got to leave the paint - our seller had promised it and then took it anyway. I am sure the F&F form said somewhere that you are obliged to 'make good'. I suppose that is open to interpretation.

I looked up our form it says 'make good any damage caused' so bar rawl plugs would be fine IMO.