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Help it's broken and we move out tomorrow

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twirliedobbit · 02/07/2013 14:22

The cord on one of our sash windows broke yesterday. It's just a DIY job but we are moving tomorrow and have no time to fix ourselves....
Wwyd?

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lalalonglegs · 02/07/2013 14:33

Is the house owned or rented? If you have sold it, then I believe the buyer becomes responsible for it after exchange. If rented, report it to the letting agents - I wouldn't have thought you'd be responsible for sash cords, tbh.

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twirliedobbit · 02/07/2013 14:35

It's owned and we exchanged last week.... Who do I check with? I just feel a bit responsible really it broke whilst in our care, I would expect it to be fixed if I was buying the house.

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lalalonglegs · 02/07/2013 14:37

Check with your solicitor. If you're moving reasonably locally, offer to come back in a week or two and fix it if you feel guilty.

Twitterqueen · 02/07/2013 14:38

If it's a DIY job then leave instructions. Or don't say anything. The previous owner of my house didn't say anything about the man who plays his organs 2 or 3 times a week, the hole in the carpet, the on-its-last-leg boiler, the disappearance of all plants, the ignition button on the hob that doesn't work, the gas fire that doesn't work.....

Jan49 · 02/07/2013 17:47

I don't think you need to do anything. No one expects a house they buy to be perfect. As long as it's not a major thing that breaks after the new owner last viewed it.

deepfriedsage · 02/07/2013 17:59

Leave some booze and chocolate, it should help ease the guilt.

Potterer · 02/07/2013 20:19

Please please please be honest with the new owner, we were given the keys to our new house and were told at that point that the hot water tank had a leak, they had discovered it 3 days earlier when they were emptying it to pack.

They couldn't get a plumber before they left so didn't bother. If they had rang me on the day they discovered it I could have arranged a plumber myself. We had already exchanged weeks before hand.

As it was we had to move in with two young children with no hot water. 3 years on and it still pisses me off. Angry

Yours is far less of a problem so just let them know. Our vendor paid half for a new hot water tank but was in no way obliged to, as was pointed out in the accompanying letter from the solicitor.

CointreauVersial · 02/07/2013 21:22

Do tell them, but it's not a major issue in the grand scheme of things.

Just before we completed on this house the boiler broke down. The previous owner (bless him) sorted out a new boiler, arranged installation, then asked (apologetically) if we'd mind paying half. The first person through the doors when we got the keys was a plumber with a new boiler.

Considering he no longer owned the house and could have just walked away, I was eternally grateful. Particularly as we moved in on a snowy January day; it was minus 7 on the first night.

But a non-opening window isn't a show-stopper.

noisytoys · 02/07/2013 21:28

We moved in December. The boiler didn't work and hasn't worked for some time according to the boiler replacement man. The sale was agreed in the July but it took forever to all go through then we moved in to that. Please be honest it's only small but its big to someone who discovers it.

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