Emergency Advice!

Werdnal

hcb42 wrote: »

and you will need to spend £50 down at asda on stuff to spring clean the place with.

I was checking out of Asda last week and the young couple in front had a trolley containing a mop and bucket, half a dozen packs of cheap microfibre cloths and umpteen bottles of cleaning products. Crossed my mind at the time that they must have just got their keys :rotfl:

Adam86_2

We haven't done this before ruggedtoast hence why we are neede a bit of help so if you are just going to criticise then thanks very much.

Adam86_2

The house is lovely, the way some people are talking they sound like they must have bought grotty houses, nice lol

Adam86_2

Well we will see what happens. Thank you those of you for the useful advice and the good luck

Flyboy152

Adam86 wrote: »

Concrete is 2 foot by 1 foot! We can't even pick it up with the two of us. Its rubbish! they should remove it its not fair to leave it for us, as I've said I would'nt leave it if it were me but maybe I'm just too nice.

And if they don't move it, what will you do? Will you back out of the deal?

Adam86_2

Have you read anything that i have written flyboy lol no but is it their responsibility to remove it? thats all i want to know grrrrrrrr!!!!

hazyjo

There will always be something that doesn't work, hasn't been removed, or breaks the day you move in. C'est la vie. Our house is only 8 years old. Surveyor picked up that one side of the dining room window doesn't work. We've ignored it. Also, the heating stopped working within 3 weeks. Thankfully, not a new boiler (you'd be amazed at the amount of boilers that pack up with weeks of someone moving in - I'm sure they all have these temporary fixes that makes them last just another few days or weeks...), just a £150 part/labour. Our carpets are far more stained and dented than we realised so we need new carpets (eventually). The light in the study doesn't work.

I'm sure the vendors were aware of most or all of these things. Oh, and it was filthy which we really weren't expecting.

Honestly, I agree with above, if that's as bad as it gets, you've had an easy ride. Dust off the sledgehammer, and use another exit (if there is one) until you can get the door fixed - if it's not been sorted before you move in.

If you do want to make sure it's all been sorted, you need to do it before exchange, not completion. You won't be able to slow down the sale once you've exchanged.

Even the honest of the honest will leave something not working, damaged or stained! Not everything's declared. It's up to you or your surveyor to find it - and even then there's probably naff all chance of anyone doing anything about it. The way of property sales, I'm afraid.

Jx

Werdnal

To be honest I think it was the title and the tone of your OP that triggered the sarcastic responses.

Yes it would have been good for the vendor/solicitors/estate agents to have sorted this out before you got to this stage, but is it really worthy of calling the situation an Emergency?!

No one has died, your deal is going ahead, you seem to have everything in place for a swift and trouble free move and start you new life together in your very own home. I agree it is a stressful time, but only as stressful as you make it, and getting so worked up over one door that will not open and a lump of concrete - however large and heavy - is not going to help.

I can understand your annoyance over this - you wanted everything to be perfect, but sadly life is not like that. If you want to make an issue of it with the vendors/solicitor, then shout at them again tomorrow, but I don't think it will achieve anything at this late stage, other than put your blood pressure up further.

Step back, deep breath, chill and good luck with your move!

Adam86_2

Its rubbish, they've signed a form to say they will clear any rubbish and personal possessions, hence why should they leave it.....

hcb42

Werdnal wrote: »

I was checking out of Asda last week and the young couple in front had a trolley containing a mop and bucket, half a dozen packs of cheap microfibre cloths and umpteen bottles of cleaning products. Crossed my mind at the time that they must have just got their keys :rotfl:

I moved into one house in 1997, and I spent £50 back then and I think we gave ourselves some chemical poisoning in the process, it was that manky lol. It was a self build five bedroom three reception room home which was about 2 yrs old too, couldnt believe it. Meanwhile I had paid a fortune for cleaner to deep clean my old house top to bottom after we had shifted everything out. The cooker looked like it had been salvaged from the local chip shop, meanwhile the so and so that bought ours sued us as the timer on the ten year old third hand cooker that we GAVE them did not work. Idiot. :eek: I wish I had a concrete block left for me at the time, I know what I would have done with it...:rotfl:

But this house I am in now...moved in four weeks after completing, as we had some building works done (It had not been touched for 50 yrs). Moving in weekend we had no kitchen at all..nothing in there, and we washed pots in the bath! For six months I made do with a pasting table for a counter top Moved in Jan, no carpets in the place, well there were, but they were that old they fell apart (old lady had lived here) and I would rather have removed them, same with curtains. Had no curtains for ages until next door took pity on us! Every wall where we stripped paper the plaster came with it, whole ceiling caved in on us on top floor...pictures would make you weep lol:rotfl:Six years later and it is almost habitable.

However no one died so it wasn't ever an emergency, just funny stories to share down the pub perhaps