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Fixtures and fittings!

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  • silvercar
    silvercar Posts: 49,971 Ambassador
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    Can anyone point me to the regulations that say you have to leave gas cookers?
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  • BobProperty
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    Wickedkitten wrote:
    ...If its gas then they have to leave a cooker attached to it, but it doesn't necessarily have to be the one that was already there.
    Sorry I think that's rubbish. Surely all they have to do is leave it safe. If they get a corgi guy in to cap the gas mains off and take the cooker with them, they have done nothing wrong. (apart from the argument about whether the cooker is included or not)
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  • silvercar
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    BobProperty wrote:
    Sorry I think that's rubbish. Surely all they have to do is leave it safe. If they get a corgi guy in to cap the gas mains off and take the cooker with them, they have done nothing wrong. (apart from the argument about whether the cooker is included or not)

    Thanks Bob, at least I know.

    I have now spoken to the EA who thought the cooker was included otherwise he wouldn't have included it on the details. He's going back to the sellers and is going to mention that its petty to take with lots of other bits and bobs.

    [Surveyor going back tomorrow to check if the chimney breast has been removed from the loft, and builder going to give me a price on replacing asbestos cement roofing.]
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  • Wickedkitten
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    BobProperty wrote:
    Sorry I think that's rubbish. Surely all they have to do is leave it safe. If they get a corgi guy in to cap the gas mains off and take the cooker with them, they have done nothing wrong. (apart from the argument about whether the cooker is included or not)

    I'm just going by what the Estate Agent told us.
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  • BobProperty
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    Wickedkitten wrote:
    I'm just going by what the Estate Agent told us.
    I think he may be getting his electrical fittings mixed up with his gas fittings. If you remove your antique chandelier, you can't just leave 2 wires sticking out of the ceiling and you have to put a light fitting back. Don't ask me why, apart from the safety point of view, but that's what I'd been lead to believe.
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  • Wickedkitten
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    BobProperty wrote:
    I think he may be getting his electrical fittings mixed up with his gas fittings. If you remove your antique chandelier, you can't just leave 2 wires sticking out of the ceiling and you have to put a light fitting back. Don't ask me why, apart from the safety point of view, but that's what I'd been lead to believe.

    Nope, asked him about that as well and he said no. I'll have to do some googling.
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  • silvercar
    silvercar Posts: 49,971 Ambassador
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    on the fixture and fittings sheet that solicitors use it states:

    "If these are to be removed it is assumed they will be replaced with ceiling rose and socket, flex, bulb holder and bulb."

    So if a seller is not going to do that they would have to say so - or cross that bit out.
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  • dander
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    I recently moved out of a flat and took my (lovely) gas cooker with me. Didn't leave anything else. Just the bayonet fitting.

    If I were you Silvercar, I would go back to your solicitor and say that you were unaware that they were not leaving any fixtures and fittings and that your original offer was made on the assumption that all these things would stay - after all the cooker was included in the ea details and who could anticipate the removal of dimmer switches!

    All that stuff adds up in price. My vendors took the curtain rails, and I didn't mind because they weren't my taste anyway, but these things are all very well when you're just buying a couple for one room, but to get rails for the whole house makes you wince a bit. And you end up (like I did) spending the first few weeks holding curtains up with duck tape while you try and find some rails you like!

    I agree with you - so much of it's just pointless for them to keep. What are the chances they'll actually reuse any of that stuff? Definitely go back and talk price.
  • BobProperty
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    silvercar wrote:
    on the fixture and fittings sheet that solicitors use it states:

    "If these are to be removed it is assumed they will be replaced with ceiling rose and socket, flex, bulb holder and bulb."

    So if a seller is not going to do that they would have to say so - or cross that bit out.
    That's where it is! It's a standard part of the fixture and fittings list then. I'd press the thanks button but...
    A house isn't a home without a cat.
    Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others.
    I have writer's block - I can't begin to tell you about it.
    You told me again you preferred handsome men but for me you would make an exception.
    It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
  • suki1964
    suki1964 Posts: 14,313 Forumite
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    Someone posted the exact same thing a few months back - and it turned out to be an error - the vendor just ticked the wrong collum. Hope this is the case here
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