House sold - Can I take fixtures and fittings away with me?

Smi1er

Anything that is fixed has to be left unless your up front about it.

If I was viewing a house I would assume you are taking the curtains but leaving the curtain rails.

To be honest yopu sound like one of these people that will take the half used toilet roll:rolleyes:

edgex

ahfh1 wrote: »

Hi,

If I sold my house, would I be allowed to take away the fixtures and fittings away with me?

I'm just talking about small things such as bathroom cabinets and kitchen shelves, toilet roll holders, towel rails, blinds, curtains etc i.e. things that I've screwed into the walls.

I know these are small things, but they will save me a lot of money if I can take these away with me and put them into my new house!

Cheers

so you want to go around unscrewing things that the purchaser has seen fixed in place?
leaving holes all over the walls?


if you really want to be that petty, & take it all with you, take it all down before you show anyone around
then make sure that none of the items are listed in the particulars

kevsan

We also filled in & received a fixtures and fittings listing.

when we moved out we also left a welcome to your new home card and a bottle of wine...

there wasn't anything waiting at the new house!!

ormus

gardens are a minefield. theres been plenty of cases where the new owner has arrived to find a mini somme in the back garden.

if it aint on the title deeds/sale contract, it aint sold to you.

missile

I would suggest it is more trouble than it is worth and I would be very annoyed if I moved into a house to find seller had removed fixtures.

I once got a solicitors letter re complaint from a buyer.
There were a couple of holes from when I had replaced the lounge curtain rail. He accused me of replacing with a cheaper item!
The house was advertised as part floored loft. It had just enough to gain access and provide stoarge. He complained there was not as much flooring as he expected.
Advertised as power and water in garage. He complained that there was only a tap, one single socket and a strip light.

When we moved into a rented house in Holland, the owners had removed every light fitting. Just left the bare wires!

cte1111

27col wrote: »

I think that I am right in saying that you are not allowed to take shrubs from the garden either. There was no way that I was going to take anything from the garden of my last house. The garden was infested with a pernicious weed called ground elder and I could not take the risk of bringing any of that to my new building site.

Like any other items, garden plants can be removed, as long as this is mentioned on the fixtures and fittings form. I moved a couple of plants from my last house that I had a sentimental attachment to and mentioned this on the form to ensure no disputes.

rachbc

you need to detail in the fixtures and fittings list what you are leaving, what you are taking and what you are willing to sell. If you then don't you are breaching the contract. Also if you leave things that you don't say you will then the new owner can get back what it was cost to get rid of them- in our case the hire of a skip to bin all the junk our vendors had been kind enough to leave in our cellar!

ahfh1

The fixtures and fittings list is the forrm 'TA10' from the Law Society.

Lindsaybee

Hi,

I have recently purchased a house. When we viewed the property it had nice chrome light switches and plug sockets. We bought the house as it needed no work doing to it (or so we thought!). The fixtures and fittings list came through and they had ticked to leave light fixtures and plug sockets, however when we moved in they had replaced these with normal white ones and had done a really bad job and the plaster in damaged around many of them and some are actually hanging off the wall! They are refusing to see that there is anything wrong with this and simply say that they didn't specify that they would leave the chrome light fittings.

Does anyone have any advice on this as we are considering taking them to a small claims court as to replace the light switches with the chrome ones and make good the plaster will cost over £300.

pimento

Our vendors took the wall lights in the living room. No problem, except there was no ceiling light so we were in the dark until I could get the wall lights replaced.