What sellers hide!

maisie_cat

Arfa__ said:

MovingForwards said:

Then there was the 'spares' for the flat like a few wall / floors tiles, roll of wall paper, mahogany varnish, feather duster and other bits. Which got disposed of PDQ.

On the subject of spares being left, I have been wondering if this is an acceptable thing or not. I'm planning to sell up in near future and do have a collection of spare tiles and paints that match what's been used in various rooms. Having kept them in case a tile breaks or odd bits of paint need touching up, is it acceptable to leave these for a future buyer? Would they really want them, or should I just take them to the tip now?

When we moved in 2019 I sent an email to the EA asking them to ask the buyers, they said yes to everything. I would have thought that having spare tiles is quite important because matching them if one breaks is a nightmare.

Albala

When we took off a kitchen cabinet we found there was no plaster on the kitchen walls. Chipboard had been stood off the inner brick wall by timbers and then cabinets and stuff put up and the remaining exposed chipboard tiled. It totally ****ed our booked rewire, we had to leave the kitchen out of it. Due to covid, we're still waiting to do the kitchen. When we began to take more chipboard off, and units out, we found in one place a previous owner ( none of this was done by the people we bought from, BTW, it predates them) had taken out the inner brick leaf for well over a yard wide, and over a yard high, we think so they could put a washing machine or something closer to the wall. Luckily the house is built in Accrington brick, and was well built originally, so the bricks above are still firmly in place, but it does explain why the kitchen has been colder than expected and smelt damp.We have been exposed to the wall cavity, with just some thin plywood fixed to the outer leaf....

teachfast

Albala said:

When we took off a kitchen cabinet we found there was no plaster on the kitchen walls. Chipboard had been stood off the inner brick wall by timbers and then cabinets and stuff put up and the remaining exposed chipboard tiled. It totally ****ed our booked rewire, we had to leave the kitchen out of it. Due to covid, we're still waiting to do the kitchen. When we began to take more chipboard off, and units out, we found in one place a previous owner ( none of this was done by the people we bought from, BTW, it predates them) had taken out the inner brick leaf for well over a yard wide, and over a yard high, we think so they could put a washing machine or something closer to the wall. Luckily the house is built in Accrington brick, and was well built originally, so the bricks above are still firmly in place, but it does explain why the kitchen has been colder than expected and smelt damp.We have been exposed to the wall cavity, with just some thin plywood fixed to the outer leaf....

That is really shocking. 

Crimsonlake

When I completed and turned up at my new home the sellers had not even packed. How stupid can people be as they said they thought they had to wait for the money to transfer in to their account? 
Unsafe wiring in the electric shower was discovered quite quickly luckily. Items of furniture left behind, a broken garage door which I had not thought of checking when I viewed. A huge bin in the back garden full of rubble which was too heavy to move. 
After a few days I came down in the evening to discover beetles crawling around downstairs. Discovered they were coming from the intergral garage where they had stored huge amounts of wood.