Repainting when moving?

[Evans95]

In the process of selling my house.
I have filled in any holes/painted over it etc.
We have big ikea pax wardrobes we are taking, not build in ones.
The spare room is sage green previously white, so when we remove the wardrobe there’s going to be a big white patch where the wardrobe was.
Would we be expected to paint this? I’d feel bad not but they could just move in and repaint anyway?

We have signed and agreed to leave the house in clean and tidy order, unsure whether this is included?

TIA!

I did exactly the same. I didn’t repaint but mine was white over colours so I guess easier to touch up. You could leave any spare paint or a note of the paint/batch note if you wanted to? I really wouldn’t worry about it though. I’ve moved into some absolute pigstys.

Why on earth would you not paint behind furniture?

Thats just laziness and a job badly done. Expecting the paint to cover the whole room not just the bits you didn't hide in the viewing is normal.

The wardrobe is 7ft tall and secured to the wall to avoid it falling. I’m 5ft tall so couldn’t exactly move it myself.

so not ‘lazy’ thank you very much! No need to be plain rude.

Its common gripe on 'bad seller' list is leaving gaps where you painted round furniture.

Doing a job cheap for yourself is one thing but selling a bodge job to someone else secretly is entirely different. You have specifically hidden it with furniture so they are unaware and reasonably expecting it to be painted.

You removed the furniture so its your job to make it good.

The wardrobe is 7ft tall and secured to the wall..

Surely that's a fitted wardrobe included with fixtures and fittings? If you are going to rip it out, the least you can do is fill the damage and repaint the same as the room.

OP, you are getting a really hard time here.

No, @ToastCrumbsInMyBed it's not a fitted wardrobe, it's a freestanding wardrobe secured for safety.

@housethatbuiltme you seem to imply that the OP hid the unpainted wall with the wardrobes 😂. It's not a bodge job. At the time she painted the room she could do the fuck she liked - it was HER HOUSE.

An unpainted wall would be considered clean and tidy. If you have any of the original paint, leave that in the room.

It can be a gripe but nobody is under any obligation to paint behind furniture once they move it whatsoever. Most people redecorate anyway, it’s just paint and if its never been painted behind there’s actually nothing to make good, it is what it is, it was her house to paint, or not however she liked.

And what ‘bad seller list’??

Not at all, you should always have large heavy unfitted furniture secured to the wall for safety, doesn’t make it fixture & fittings (nothing is fixtures & fittings unless you add it to the form snyway).

It won’t be ‘ripped out’ it will be dismantled if the OP is taking it with her (as is her right).

It’s a total bodge and would make my heart sink but best perhaps to leave it so they’re aware to look for whatever other diy shortcuts you’ve taken

We didn’t repaint but reduced asking by 3k to let him do it himself.

You have specifically hidden it with furniture so they are unaware and reasonably expecting it to be painted

No she hasn't. She couldn't paint behind it because it was too difficult to move.

Don't worry about it, OP. I'm sure it happens all the time.

I think he saw you coming, most people expect to redecorate, i wouldn’t drop a house price by £3k because the buyer wanted to paint it.

You reduced by £3k for that? Woah.

Wtf?! The replies on this are bonkers. (Non lazy) people would expect to paint a house to their taste when they buy it. I’ve brought and sold many many times and honestly, a half painted wall would not even make my top fifty ‘gripes’.

Im guessing most of these replies are from people who haven’t moved much (yet spend their time on moving forums) and expect perfection when they move into a house which might be any number of years old.

OP if your boiler works and you leave the house clean and tidy then you’re doing better than most sellers.

It is accepted that the vast majority of people are going to redecorate when buying and if there is a large piece of furniture the likelihood it that it is not painted behind.

This is my 5th house, my top peeves would be the piss down the toilets of a house I bought and the lovely smell that accompanied it, the complete array of crap belongings left in another house when they ran out of time packing, the couple who took the loft ladder, the ladder that was actually screwed down in the loft and the worst, the house with no hot water because they discovered the hot water tank was leaking when packing up and knew 3 days before we moved in and told us as we picked up the keys. I would have arranged a plumber. A non-painted wall doesn't even register.

I will be repainting behind the wardrobe when we go.
thank you for anyone who’s been nice and helpful on this post!
for anyone else - you can carry on with your lives now 🤣