Leaving paints, sealers etc. in the shed when selling a house

jcuurthht

Hello. I am selling my late mother's property while I am living in Germany.

I hired a firm to clear the house, and the only thing they could not take was the paints shown in the picture below.

Normally you could take these to a Sort-It center in South Gloucestershire, however given I am attempting to sell the property while living abroad, this isn't an option for me.

Providing I noted them on the Fittings & Fixtures form, do you think leaving these in the shed would be acceptable to prospective buyers? What is the change this could cause a sale to fall through?

user1977

I would just leave them. I doubt a buyer will get very excited about it, or that anybody expects such things to be noted on the F&F form. A shed piled high with junk would be one thing, but a few potentially useful bits and bobs are fine.

kipsterno1

That photo looks exactly like what I was left in the garage when we bought our current home. I was more than happy to find and use it.

MzH_2021

I found a similar stack of paint tins when I moved recently, handy for touch ups until I get round to redecorating. I'll be leaving a similar stack in my old house, with the room written on them in Sharpie to take the guesswork out for the new owner.

Spreadsheetman

I left similar paint in my old house with a note on each can of which room it was for. (I got rid of all the paint that wasn't current by solidifying it with some cement and disposing of the solid waste in the normal bin, which was completely fine according to the council's waste guidelines.)

jcuurthht

Thanks for the input everyone. I'll leave it where it is. The agent can tell any prospective buyers during visits that it will be included.

powerful_Rogue

House we purchased left lots of paint with the tins labelled such as Kitchen, Fence, Decking, Hallway etc.

We did the same when we sold. Nothing noted on the F&F.

Flugelhorn

I actually had a buyer ask if we were leaving the paint pots as they wanted them in case they needed to do any touching up - I left them a list of which went where

Mark_Michalowski

As everyone else is saying, just leave 'em: they look perfectly useable and your buyers should be pleasantly surprised by them.

Mxx

badger09

If you have contact details for the neighbours, they might take it to recycling centre for you?

But as everyone has said, don't worry about it. Buyers will probably be grateful, and if not, that's less than a small car boot load for them to take to the recycling centre. 

This must be doubly stressful for you, doing it all from outside UK. Don't sweat the small stuff, and condolences on your loss.

theartfullodger

Sold my late brother's house recently.  There was, similarly, a large section of old paint tins... (Left when house clearance people shifted everything else). But as he hardly touched the place since he bought in 1971 I took them personally to the excellent Manchester dump.