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Making good walls when selling

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  • Ktaylor86
    Ktaylor86 Posts: 57 Forumite
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    AdrianC said:
    Take the TV, leave the bracket fixed to the wall.
    Oh really leave the bracket? Was hoping to reuse the brackets. Especially for our very large 64" TV (I inherited the TV from my father when he passed away and was intending to have it wall hung again in new house)  
  • AdrianC
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    Ktaylor86 said:
    But we (like most households surely?) have wall anchored chest of drawers and bookshelves, 3 lots of drawers, 3 lots of bookshelves. Plus the two TVs that are wall mounted and 3 display cabinets that are wall hung! Is that more than a few? 
    Yes, I'd say it is.

    We do not have any wall-mounted furniture at all - bar a single retaining screw for a grandfather clock.
    Wall-hung pictures, absolutely, but not furniture.
  • wannabe_a_saver
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    Ktaylor86 said:
    AdrianC said:
    Take the TV, leave the bracket fixed to the wall.
    Oh really leave the bracket? Was hoping to reuse the brackets. Especially for our very large 64" TV (I inherited the TV from my father when he passed away and was intending to have it wall hung again in new house)  
    Its fine you can take the bracket.  I'd be more annoyed at finding one of those in my new house than just a couple of rawl plugs!
  • AdrianC
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    edited 8 March 2021 at 11:04AM
    wannabe_a_saver said:
    Ktaylor86 said:
    AdrianC said:
    Take the TV, leave the bracket fixed to the wall.
    Oh really leave the bracket? Was hoping to reuse the brackets. Especially for our very large 64" TV (I inherited the TV from my father when he passed away and was intending to have it wall hung again in new house)  
    Its fine you can take the bracket.  I'd be more annoyed at finding one of those in my new house than just a couple of rawl plugs!
    But if the bracket is not required, then getting it back to "just rawlplugs" is a matter of two minutes unscrewing it.
    Ktaylor86 said:
    AdrianC said:
    Take the TV, leave the bracket fixed to the wall.
    Oh really leave the bracket? Was hoping to reuse the brackets. Especially for our very large 64" TV (I inherited the TV from my father when he passed away and was intending to have it wall hung again in new house)  
    TV wall-mounting brackets tend to be utterly standard - there's a mounting pattern, VESA, which specifies how the bracket attaches to the TV. The mounting to the wall, though, is not standardised - so the chances of the buyer finding a bracket that matches the plugs is far lower.

    Buy a new bracket to suit how you want to mount it in the new house - which may be different to the old one.
  • Ktaylor86
    Ktaylor86 Posts: 57 Forumite
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    AdrianC said:
    Ktaylor86 said:
    But we (like most households surely?) have wall anchored chest of drawers and bookshelves, 3 lots of drawers, 3 lots of bookshelves. Plus the two TVs that are wall mounted and 3 display cabinets that are wall hung! Is that more than a few? 
    Yes, I'd say it is.

    We do not have any wall-mounted furniture at all - bar a single retaining screw for a grandfather clock.
    Wall-hung pictures, absolutely, but not furniture.
    Thank you, we have a lot of IKEA flat packs, the bookcases and chest of drawers I mention all of which have a wall anchor so one hole each. 
  • maisie_cat
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    AdrianC said:
    Take the TV, leave the bracket fixed to the wall.
    That's what we did, the bracket was epoxied into the wall so removal would have made a mess
  • youth_leader
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    I worried about this when I sold as someone had posted her buyer complained about the picture hooks she'd left post completion.  I didn't have matching paint or filler, and was worried about any damage, so just left mine.  My seller rang me about her picture hooks, and I asked her to leave them up for me as I'd reuse them.  
    £216 saved 24 October 2014
  • wannabe_a_saver
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    AdrianC said:
    wannabe_a_saver said:
    Ktaylor86 said:
    AdrianC said:
    Take the TV, leave the bracket fixed to the wall.
    Oh really leave the bracket? Was hoping to reuse the brackets. Especially for our very large 64" TV (I inherited the TV from my father when he passed away and was intending to have it wall hung again in new house)  
    Its fine you can take the bracket.  I'd be more annoyed at finding one of those in my new house than just a couple of rawl plugs!
    But if the bracket is not required, then getting it back to "just rawlplugs" is a matter of two minutes unscrewing it.

    And then I have to get rid of it.  I would never expect anybody to leave their TV bracket.
  • AdrianC
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    Fine. Remove it.

    But make good.
  • GDB2222
    GDB2222 Posts: 26,665 Forumite
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    As this is not a contract matter, why not speak direct to your buyers?
    No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?
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