How quickly did you get into your house on completion day?

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We heard from our solicitor at 10.30 to say we had completed... And we are still waiting now to be able to get in!

check the fixtures/fitting form reg the oven. but it it's an inbuilt one and not freestanding it should have remained.
on to the solicitors on monday methinks.

Any integrated appliances should stay - have words with your solicitor on Monday.

sailaway unless people are prepared to store stuff overnight or have other arrangements, yes everyone does move on the same day. But all removals should start early. The first money transfer isn't normally through until about 11am. Unless you are clearing out Buck House you should be long gone by then.

the idea is that you get out and drop off keys on the way at the agent, the buyer then collects. I made it easy by giving a spare set to the agent the day before, and then chucking our final set through the letterbox. (which was key-fishing proof, I hasten to add).

OP - what a nightmare! As you are surprised by the missing oven, I'm guessing that it was on the fixtures and fittings form to be left. In which case your vendors owe you an oven. Call the solicitor.

If it was 50cm high it sounds integrated and a high up oven? How frustrating

9.30pm?? What a bunch of counts you have the patience of a saint OP I think I would have physically evicted them dh would of actually done the manual bit

I agree you have the patience of a saint. I can guarantee that my DH would have been standing in the hallway from about 11 telling them to get a bloody move on and get out of his house. I don't think he'd be very polite about it. He'd have been berating the solicitors by 12.