Fitted carpets not included

NBOATER

After the stress and hassle of selling my house have exchanged and will complete next week so far so good.

Received the fixtures and fittings list for the bungalow I am buying, bear in mind I will be a cash buyer next Friday.

Fitted carpets not included in sale according to vendor. First time I have heard of this type of behaviour. We offered the full asking price as it is well decorated and in move in condition. No one said carpets not included at the time.

I do not care that she taking the wall lights and ceiling lights in lounge, but fitted carpets , really!!

Have told EA to tell her carpets stay or we drop price by £1000 or we may indeed walk away from the purchase.

She isn't even moving houses, selling and going travelling.

Petty I call it :mad:

banger9365

why would you want someone else's carpets,that would be the first thing i would rip out
wall lights and ceiling lights would go too

missile

Maybe so, but it would be nice for OP to have time to choose replacements and have them fitted at his/her leisure.

ERICS_MUM

banger9365 wrote: »

why would you want someone else's carpets,that would be the first thing i would rip out
wall lights and ceiling lights would go too

When I moved into this house I just could not have afforded new carpets and light fittings for at least the first 18 months. The previous owner's carpets looked quite decent after being cleaned by a Vax (hard work though !).

What is she doing with the carpets after she's ripped them up ?

She should leave the floors in a reasonable condition - e.g. any crumbly old underlay should be removed and those horrible spiky gripper strips removed so you don't hurt your feet.

Are you sure she has said they're not included or has she just ticked the wrong box on the form ?

What a nuisance anyway, hope you can get something sorted.

zaksmum

I agree you wouldn't want someone else's manky carpets.

OP as a cash buyer can - surely - afford new ones.

newbutold

missile wrote: »

Maybe so, but it would be nice for OP to have time to choose replacements and have them fitted at his/her leisure.

Same here. I would get them professionally cleaned whilst I replaced them at my leisure as & when needed.

Sounds like the sort of person that will of stripped the house of everything they can when you move it. Either that or they are trying to squeeze a few more pounds out of you.

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zaksmum wrote: »

I agree you wouldn't want someone else's manky carpets.

OP as a cash buyer can - surely - afford new ones.

Why would you think they are manky?
Why would you think the OP can afford new ones?

eezer

Call their bluff and see if they leave them.

When we bought the vendor tried to sell us their carpets and curtains. We declined so they actually took them, but at least it caused them hassle having to take them out and more than likely dispose of them as they'd be no-use to anyone else.

p00hsticks

Shouldn't you have been checking the fixtures and fittings list and negotiating the price BEFORE you exchanged, not after ?

I think your conveyancer has been pretty lax in exchanging before getting these details ...

Once you've exchanged you're pretty much committed to buying at the agreed price, so unless you've got something in writing to say that the carpets ARE included, I think you're going to struggle.

oldhand

You do meet them,when my brother bought a house (and it was expensive) the sellers wanted paid for virtually every screw in the house or they were taking it out,they included the ceiling light roses and the gold (plated) switches in the living room.
But the thing that really showed their meaness was on the day they were moving out they wanted my brother to make them an offer on the coal that was left in the bunker,now both him and I looked in the bunker and there was less than half a bag left and it was the coal on the bottom so it was mostly dust.
My brother refused so the other persons wife proceeded to remove the remnants of the coal covering her own clothes in coal dust,then putting the bag onto the back seat of her car... :rotfl:

Enfieldian

p00hsticks wrote: »

Shouldn't you have been checking the fixtures and fittings list and negotiating the price BEFORE you exchanged, not after ?

I think your conveyancer has been pretty lax in exchanging before getting these details ...

Once you've exchanged you're pretty much committed to buying at the agreed price, so unless you've got something in writing to say that the carpets ARE included, I think you're going to struggle.

Read the first post again.

OP says they have exchanged on their SALE and they are completing on that next Friday.