A few questions

Yorkshireman99

Good condition stair lifts do have a worthwhile value and are worth having professionally removed particularly if the track is mainly straight run.

FreeBear

Yorkshireman99 wrote: »

Good condition stair lifts do have a worthwhile value and are worth having professionally removed particularly if the track is mainly straight run.

A quick look on ebay, and they seem to be going for around £100-£250. There are even a couple for 99p.

Tuesday_Tenor

FreeBear wrote: »

A quick look on ebay, and they seem to be going for around £100-£250. There are even a couple for 99p.

Yes, given that you have, in effect, to pay someone to remove a stairlift and service it, don't expect more than a few hundred pounds.

Although purchased at £4.5k and sounding like a considerable asset, the more expensive the stairlift, the more likely it was to have been tailored to a particular stairway, and therefore less useful to many other people.

Be very pleased if you get £450 (10% of original cost) for it.

Yorkshireman99

FreeBear wrote: »

A quick look on ebay, and they seem to be going for around £100-£250. There are even a couple for 99p.

eBay items are the bottom of the market. Nobody is actually going to sell one for 99P. That will siimply na be starting prioce that will have a reserve.Whilst the OP's lift is not leikely to fetch thousnads it may well be worth several hundred and is worth him asking the supplier.

Dr_Crypto

The liftvis being donated to the hospice which cared for my father so we'll declare it on IHT408 as a charitable donation (and get a receipt from the hospice).

An RICS surveyor is going to value the housevabdvwe will get a valuer for the contents too. I can't imagine they are worth more than £5k because although all items were expensive new there isn't much money in second hand furniture!

Yorkshireman99

Dr_Crypto wrote: »

The liftvis being donated to the hospice which cared for my father so we'll declare it on IHT408 as a charitable donation (and get a receipt from the hospice).

An RICS surveyor is going to value the housevabdvwe will get a valuer for the contents too. I can't imagine they are worth more than £5k because although all items were expensive new there isn't much money in second hand furniture!

Don't be mislead into thinking that all secondhand furniture has little or no value. Apart from good quality antiques that obviously can be worth a lot, top quality modern branded furniture, such as Ercol bookcases, does have value albeit at a significant discout off the new price.

Dr_Crypto

There are a number of items of furniture like that in the house. Much of it is being taken by family, although some may be sold. We will get a valuer/ auctioneer to come out and value the contents.

getmore4less

Charity shop has an Ercol dining table on sale for £350 it will sell at that price.

You see the frames of cottage sofas/chair sets at around £250.