"Fitted" Wardrobes being left behind by vendors

If you have new wardrobes fitted, the workers would probably take away the old ones,as in the the case of fitted kitchens.Companies often do kitchens, bedrooms and bathrooms so will have the same policy for all)

You know you can take them apart qith a hammer and put them outside in half an hour and phone a local rubbish removal guy who will probably take them away for £30 or so

Great thread on a common topic, that resonates with me. I am buying a house that is advertised as having "built-in" wardrobes in BR1, and says nothing about "built-in" wardrobes elsewhere. In fact, BR2's wardrobes look even more built-in than BR1, and are a worse problem as (a) they only allow room for a single bed in between, and (b) have a weird, botched-looking diagonal section on the wall where the door opens into.

The problem for me is that I have a double bed for BR2, and I really don't like the look of the built-ins in BR1. So, currently, even if I do remove the built-ins, I have nowhere to reasonably store my current wardrobes.

I do really like the idea of seeing if the doors in BR1 could be painted, replaces, etc. If the guts of the robes look fine, that may be a perfect solution - but I definitely want the ones on BR2 gone. I have my surveyor taking a look to see some of the things that have been pointed out - are the walls behind different, have the skirting boards been removed, etc.

To the OP, I'd say yes, it's a pain, but just communicate courteously via your solicitor and the seller won't take offence and the worse that can happen is they say no, they won't remove them.

On a related note, when I bought my current house, I was "kindly left" the following )without any warning):

A dozen large goldfish in the garden pond (I managed to keep them alive for about 6 years until a particularly, ahem, "frozen" winter)

A complete, crap, homemade miniature railway set-up, minus tracks, in the attic (cost me one large skip and a day's cutting and sawing and lugging).

"Built-in" wardrobes in BR 1. In fact they consisted of sliding mirror doors only, with a load of free-standing, crap shelves and drawers inside, and hanging rail falling of the wall.

"Built-in" wardrobes in BR 2 - see above. Except in addition, he had cut away the end of the PVC window sill to "fit" the sliding doors next to the widow! And there was an old breeze-block sideways-facing boiler cupboard inside!

He had the cheek just before closing to ask how much I wanted to pay for his massive hot-tub that was in the garden. I said, courteously, via my solicitor, on your bike, if it's still there when I move in, I'll be charging for removal.

As others suggested, when I was due to remove the sliding wardrobe doors, I put them on Gumtree or Freecycle and someone came and picked them up. Win-win.

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There really is no accounting for taste, is there, dunroving? :rotfl:

With all the snow we have been having up here recently in rural Scotand, the hot tub would have come in handy.