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Should we ask buyers to pay for appliances, carpets and blinds?

129 replies

7in1Pond · 19/05/2026 17:47

We're (hopefully) moving and I've just been filling in all the details about what is and isn't included.

We have a range cooker (10yo but good), very new dishwasher, newish Miele washer and tumble dryer, wine fridge. We also have nice Roger Oates carpets and fitted blinds.

Should I be asking for money for any of this? I don't want any of it (except maybe the washer and dryer if the people we are selling from don't leave theirs). What's the norm?

OP posts:
Poorluce · 19/05/2026 17:48

This must be a reverse

Grumpie · 19/05/2026 17:49

No

tryandbepositive · 19/05/2026 17:49

No, you leave them or take it but you don’t charge

Poorluce · 19/05/2026 17:49

So you’d want to take all this to new place? Pull up your carpets? Take blinds that won’t fit your new windows? Appliances that may not fill space in new place?

Skybluepinky · 19/05/2026 17:49

Blinds and flooring come with the property, up to you but if they are fitted it would be expected to stay, what if they say no are you going to remove them?
I wouldn’t charge and I wouldn’t expect to be charged.

dairydebris · 19/05/2026 17:50

Lol 🙄

LifeBeginsToday · 19/05/2026 17:50

We didn't. If they wanted it, they could have it. When we moved we bought all new again.

CanaryLibra · 19/05/2026 17:50

If you tried to charge me for carpets I’d tell you no thanks, and insist that you actually removed them.

Arlanymor · 19/05/2026 17:50

Most people include the items they choose to leave behind in the sale price. Otherwise you get to quibbling about lightbulbs. Buyers might wish to negotiate for stuff you were intending on taking with you, but for stuff you're leaving anyway it's just part and parcel of the sale. Are you being serious about the carpets? That's honestly nuts.

tryandbepositive · 19/05/2026 17:51

Are you leaving the paint on the walls, or scraping it off?

MyCalmRoseHelper · 19/05/2026 17:51

If the appliances are freestanding then yes you could ask the buyer if they wanted to buy them. However, I see carpets and blinds as fixtures and fittings and wouldn’t be prepared to pay for them. You may then have to go to the trouble of taking up carpets before you move.

AgnesX · 19/05/2026 17:52

What would be the point of taking the carpet and blinds if you can't or won't use them anywhere else. As for the appliances are they included in the sale. If not can you get a buyer before exchange.

It all seems a bit mean tbh.

yaychocolateginandwine · 19/05/2026 17:52

Sad

Poorluce · 19/05/2026 17:54

Ask your EA, and you’ll likely get a very very swift response.

and no doubt they will then turn to their colleagues after putting the phone down and “oh dear, I’ve got a tricky one here”

FourSevenThree · 19/05/2026 17:56

10 yo cooker? That's a joke.
You can't really ask money for anything which is out of warranty.

If something is in the warranty, you'd have to provide the paperwork allowing the new owner to exercise the warranty

If you offer something for a price and they say no, you might have to remove it if they insist.

Followthesunshine · 19/05/2026 17:56

If you even suggested charging me for carpets I would withdraw from the purchase because I wouldn't trust you and would assume any work done in the house had been done on the cheap.

MissMoneyFairy · 19/05/2026 17:57

What goods are included in the kitchen sales details. Carpets and blinds stay.

JunoCupOfTea · 19/05/2026 17:59

I’ve only done this part once (my first move from family home was into a new build flat so some appliances were built in and everything else was down to me.

When I moved though, the information I was given by estate agent who worked with my sale was built in appliances stay. So in my case at the flat, the fridge/freezer, oven and washing machine were built in and fixed (cupboard doors attached etc) so it was expected that I leave them. Likewise at the home I was purchasing, they left the oven and dishwasher because they were built in - however the fridge, freezer and washing machine were not fixed so they took them with them.

It absolutely never occurred me to ask for money for carpets that I had laid.

Blinds…..trickier. The house I was purchasing from stated they were taking their curtains but leaving the rails so I did the same - I took my curtains because I knew they would fit (they were actually too big for new windows but I got them adjusted). I didn’t charge for rails because I was getting some at the new house left for me.

Will your blinds fit the new home? I guess if not, it’s up to you to decide if you want to ask for some money. If your buyers don’t want them or don’t want to pay, then you can take them with you and reuse, or try and sell, or just leave them there anyway and the new people will either keep or dispose or sell.

so my perspective:
Carpets, no. I think it’s fairly understandable to expect flooring to remain in a house.

Appliances / white goods - if fitted, leave. If not fitted, offer a price to buyers, then either accept or sell or take with you:

Blinds - I’m unsure.

PineappleCoconut · 19/05/2026 18:01

Carpets, blinds, range cooker absolutely stay.

If you particularly love your curtains take them and can be shortened/altered to fit elsewhere, but leave the rails or poles up.

Any fitted appliances with matching cupboard doors stay.

Fridge, dishwasher & washing machine if freestanding are by choice, but I’d usually leave them, or if very new and still under warranty consider taking them. No point asking for £ to sell them on the forms, as second hand appliances have next to no value, so it makes you seem like a complete arsehole to your buyer.

NotDonna · 19/05/2026 18:01

we’ve had this happen twice! Both times elderly and at first house they even removed the ceiling roses, fire surrounds, carpets & emigrated to Canada - I think the old bloke must have sold them as surely they didn’t take it all with them. I still have an image of him wrestling the fire surround onto an airplane.
In our current house she popped over a few weeks after we’d moved in and asked if she could have the curtains & poles. I stupidly said ok & then had to rapidly purchase replacements for the bedrooms.

Buscobel · 19/05/2026 18:08

Last move, we left blinds, tool one pair of curtains, but left the curtain rail, took the washing machine and tumble dryer, which were not integrated, left carpets and most light fittings.

Our buyers were moving from 2 to 4 beds and needed extra furniture. We sold a two year old corner kitchen sofa, a console table and a hall mirror.

ourSusie · 19/05/2026 18:13

Im struggling to understand just why you are mving? you know, with your Miele washer, Roger Oates carpets and all…seems such a shame …

daisychain01 · 19/05/2026 18:22

CanaryLibra · 19/05/2026 17:50

If you tried to charge me for carpets I’d tell you no thanks, and insist that you actually removed them.

This actually reminded me of when we bought our last house and the vendor said that if we didn't buy his shitty old smelly carpets that were threadbare with a tinge of dog wee he would take them up.

um is that a threat or a promise!?

OP don't risk pissing off your purchasers. Take the dishwasher if it's brand new, but leave the carpets and blinds they won't fit your new windows anyway!

CharlotteStreetW1 · 19/05/2026 18:29

When I first started working in conveyancing 40+ years ago, carpets and curtains were quite often paid for separately as "chattels". As I recall, it was a way of keeping the house price lower to keep it under the stamp duty threshold which was £25,000 then 😄

Monty36 · 19/05/2026 18:29

If you have got to the stage of filling in the forms you perhaps should have had this discussion already with your buyers.

They will expect anything fitted to remain. Anything that can be unplugged and taken to go. A carpet I would expect to stay. And be part of the price of the house. If appliances are built in I would expect them to stay. I would consider them a fixture.

If not built in you can go back and ask but a bit late in the day.