Fixtures and fittings list

kb1956

I am in the process of buying a house and I have just received the fixtures and fittings list from the vendor. On the list is an old free standing cooker which I definitely do NOT want because as soon as I receive the keys I am having a brand new fitted kitchen installed. Can I refuse this and ask for it to be taken off the list. Thanks

walwyn1978

What will you cook on until/whilst your new kitchen goes in?

Is it not easier just to get it out front for the local scrap dealer to collect when you’re ready to shift it on? Obviously apologies if you’re on your own so moving it would be much harder, or you’re in a rural area where there isn’t a localish scrap guy.

If you don’t know of a scrap guy, join your new community’s Facebook group or similar and ask them/the soon to be neighbours/in the local pub.

buggy_boy

Is the cooker electric or gas? If its gas then it is unlikely the seller will want to pay to remove it and even if its electric most people wont be able to remove the cooker.

Im sure if you put it on ebay or free on a local facebook group someone will take it off your hands.

t0rt0ise

If it's not too old a gas cooker will just have a bayonet fixing and easy to remove. Tell him you don't want his old tat and get them to remove it.

olgadapolga

I was told by my solicitor this week that when she receives the fixtures/fitting list then she will forward it to me so that I can decide what I do/don't want. She assured me that anything I don't want will have to be removed from the property by then vendor prior to completion.

diggingdude

Assurances mean little it seems as what would you do if they just left it there?

hazyjo

Can take weeks or months to get a kitchen fitted (unless you failed to mention you work for Magnet or something lol). Don't burn your bridges just yet! As suggested, it will prob go if you left it outside for a couple of days if not in a rural area! Or get the builders to clear the old kitchen out. What will you do with old units and other with goods?

kb1956

I am having a new kitchen installed as soon as I get the keys and already have the kitchen fitter lined up so definitely won't need their old cooker. I am going to speak to my solicitor to see if I can insist on it being removed.

AnotherJoe

Let's say your kitchen fitters will charge £50 to remove the cooker. Drop the price you'll pay by £50. Either that's acceptable to your seller or not. It comes down to negotiation. Or you might decide it's not worth the hassle of causing bad feeling with your seller, after all if you were living in the house and getting a new kitchen it would be routine to have the old cooker removed. Whereas for your seller it's an extra bit of work that needs to be done.
Perhaps start by saying you don't want the cooker, and see what they say in the meantime ask your fitter's about the extra cost.

SeasideSally

When we were buying our house, there were a few things we didn't want that were included in the fixtures and fittings list. We just passed on a message to say we'd already got a fridge, etc., and the vendors took the items with them. We're about to put our place on the market, and we're leaving the washing machine and fridge, which are both just eighteen months old. If the buyers don't want them, we'll just remove them and give them away.

kb1956

I will do thanks very much 😊