Don't forget the Army's Move Out Standard (I do not miss working on their properties).
It tells you exactly how many holes per room are allowed, and what colour to paint the walls.
They are slacking now if they don't require vinyl to be buffed and polished.
Owain
When my mother bought a property the previous owners took their light fitting but left bulbs in pendant holders. They didn't bother with a ceiling rose or even a junction box. The wires were just twisted together and insulated with Selotape!
What they expect is what's in the contract. What they get?
Ours left a load of scrap timber (which was OK - we installed a log burner) over 100Kg of scrap metal (weighed in .. never did get around to taking some ID to get my tenner) and loads of other stuff.
What they didn't leave we're not completely sure, but we have photographic evidence of some stuff missing.
None of it was enough to sue them over.
Andy
If it needs rewiring then the electrician will leave a lot more than little holes anyway :-)
ON the continent when you move out you take *all* the contents and even the entire fitted kitchen. Sinks, wastepipes, the whole caboodle.
Oh come on - 'reality' TV is fantastic!
I note that there is a concession to accept any leaves that have fallen in the garden over the last two days!
Chris
That seems rather retarded given it probably won't fit in the new place!
Which bit of the "continent" would this be? Seems a tad excessive.
The house a pal bought in Spain was fully furnished. Even down to crockery. ;-)
My friend who lived in Germany said this is pretty standard.
Does that not mean that you move into a new place and have no functional kitchen for as many weeks as it takes to get it back to working?
Would not things like leaving the kitchen be by negotiation? Same as paying for some things to be left in a house in the UK? Like say carpets?
Trust me, SD shows nothing. Think of sets put in and taken out of a studio each week, bashed to hell, grubby finger prints and scuffs galour. None of which was ever visible on SD, even on a Grade 1 monitor in the studio.
HD before it gets mangled by the transmission chain (freeview inparticular) does show the grosser damage but thats about all. Remember HD is only 2 mega pixel then gets data reduced at roughly
500:1 (over 1 Gbps from a HD camera down to less than 2 Mbps on transmission). Detail suffers.
Yes. Though "pretty standard" is not universal, mind.
A place may be let empty, tenant brings and removes their own kitchen, possibly fitted, possibly not. Or let with a fitted kitchen which then stays. The latter leads to discussion what is normal wear and tear (hence covered by the rent) and what is damage (not covered). Or a place may be let fully furnished (which has implications as to how easy it is to kick a tenant out).
And, with few exceptions, a rented property would need to be returned painted a "reasonable" color, no holes in the walls, clean, etc.
People tend to have a month overlap when moving...
Thomas Prufer
I guess. It all seems utterly bonkers to me. Like moving house isn't stressful enough as it is!
If you have to unscrew whatever it is to remove it, then surely it's a "fixture and fitting" and would, by default, form part of the sale. But perhaps you explicitly excluded it?
I'd fill and paint over using a 'test pot' of paint from homebase.
Robert
The underlying difference is in the property law: "fixtures" (such as fitted kitchens) are legally part of the house/flat in E&W; in Germany they ain't. So yes, it's basically like fitted carpets here.
[NB please don't ask why fitted kitchens are fixtures and fitted carpets ain't (usually). It's all a matter of facts and degree and case law.]
But then the last think they want is to see the talent warts and all, so soften it up further. ;-)
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