Tv bracket a fixture?

mattk_180

ScarletMarble wrote: »

And light bulbs, curtain rails. Never understood why people remove curtain poles when none of the windows in their new home are the same size.

We met our sellers during one of our visits to the house and they said they wouldn't be taking the curtains from the conservatory as their new house didn't have one (they were massive and made to fit).


They didn't declare they were leaving them on the form and they weren't to my taste so wasn't annoyed but just very puzzled as to why they then took them when they clearly wouldn't fit anywhere else. Imagine it would've cost a lot to get them resized to fit a different room and wouldn't say they were in a condition to sell them on either (although if they were I imagine they surely would've tried to sell to us?).


Very strange.

nicmyles

The previous owner of my house had wall-mounted TVs in two rooms. Took the brackets, left the holes. But I have to say that was what I was expecting, and having spent £xxx,xxx on a house, needing to fill in a couple of holes in the wall was a minor issue.

You wouldn't re-plaster a wall before selling just because you'd removed the pictures you had hanging on it, surely?

Ithaca

nicmyles wrote: »

The previous owner of my house had wall-mounted TVs in two rooms. Took the brackets, left the holes. But I have to say that was what I was expecting, and having spent £xxx,xxx on a house, needing to fill in a couple of holes in the wall was a minor issue.

You wouldn't re-plaster a wall before selling just because you'd removed the pictures you had hanging on it, surely?

I guess the difference is between a few screw holes that need a £3 tub of polyfilla and a couple hours with a palette knife vs a 20cm-30cm hole in the plasterwork.

Some people's DIY approach to mounting TVs etc can be fairly "robust" (i.e. more than just 4-6 screws into the wall).

System

Slinky wrote: »

How can you possibly know that?

A friend's sister moved from a 1930s semi with the large bag windows to a new build 2 bed flat - downsized after DH died. Her BIL removed them all. Only to find none of them fitted the windows to her flat.

Every property my parents lived in, they left the curtains, blinds and fixtures as windows in next home were different sizes. Plus they have faded too. Though kept my old curtains when I changed them 2-3 years before moving. Used these temporary when they moved to previous house as curtains in their bedroom, even though this window was 50% bigger.

Slinky

ScarletMarble wrote: »

A friend's sister moved from a 1930s semi with the large bag windows to a new build 2 bed flat - downsized after DH died. Her BIL removed them all. Only to find none of them fitted the windows to her flat.

Every property my parents lived in, they left the curtains, blinds and fixtures as windows in next home were different sizes. Plus they have faded too. Though kept my old curtains when I changed them 2-3 years before moving. Used these temporary when they moved to previous house as curtains in their bedroom, even though this window was 50% bigger.

We have 2 different pairs of curtains which have both been used by us in 2 other houses we've lived in. They were expensive hand made so we were happy that they could be shortened to fit in our current home. Some will fit if they can be made shorter, making larger is somewhat more difficult.


And a door curtain.

casper_g

We brought all the curtains from our old house, and we were able to make use of almost all of them in our new place, mostly without modification. And our old place was a 1960s terrace - very different from the large 1920s semi we're in now. We must just have been lucky, I suppose!