Moving - How to leave walls

[Steve H]

Hi, we are moving soon and have started the packing. When removin pictures etc what is the usual etiquette (spell??). Do you just leave the fixings, screws etc in the wall or remove them and fill. I assume I do not need to paint?

Also, something that will leave just the rawl plug in the wall, do I remove and fill or just leave?

Cheers

Steve

[davepoth]

Are the people moving in close friends?

If not, then leave it. And take all the lightbulbs with you.

[Keithyboy]

davepoth said:

. . .and take all the lightbulbs with you.

I hate it when people do that . . & leave fking holes in the walls

[Aviz]

They took the doors off mine, left them, but took the hinges and screws. !

The house I'm just buying, they have taken the fitted wardrobes from all 4 bedrooms, leaving massive Holes in the carpet. It is a repo though !

[cpas]

I think most people expect to do a bit of fettling to make the house more of their own and therefore are quite happy to fill a few holes if required and will probably re-decorate the main rooms within a year or so anyway. Most holes will probably be covered by pictures etc on exactly the same walls as you had them. It wouldn't hurt to leave a bunch of flowers, bottle of wine and a 'Welcome to your New Home' card and add a 'PS - sorry about the marks on the walls'.

[AndyT77]

Whilst i would feel embarrased at leaving a house in an unclean state, i wouldn't lose any sleep over leaving picture hooks etc. They may want to place pictures in the same area? When i moved out of my last house i actually left the buyers a bottle of (chilled) wine and some flowers. Nice guy me.

Edited by AndyT77 on Thursday 7th July 06:51

[FourWheelDrift]

davepoth said:

And take all the lightbulbs with you.

And the wallpaper.

[Skyedriver]

People just moved in next door, the outgoing family took the wall lights and left bare wires!

[dxg]

I even left all my white goods behind!

Damm buyer's market.

[Pooky67]

We just moved into a new house and we appreciated the nails that had been left in the walls as we could just put our pictures straight up out of the way, albeit in slightly random places. We'll move them later

[Scott330ci]

We moved in on Monday

All picture hooks were left in. No wine though

[mcflurry]

Lightbulbs are 10p each. Why not leave them?
I left my student buyers a spare pack too, along with some tea bags

[RemainAllHoof]

Not being a , I left hooks, light fittings, switches, doors, light bulbs, smoke detectors (which I consider are all part of a house!)... a toilet roll on the holder, soap on the sink and a pot of flowers on the kitchen worktop.













Took all the windows out, though.












Joking.

I also note the previous family left nails in walls to hang things off which was handy. Plus light bulbs and smoke detector...

[condor]

When I got the keys to my house at 12 noon, it was still partially furnished. The seller's parents were trying to fit his belongings into a hire van. They left curtain rails, mirrors, washing up bowl and lots of other small things because they hadn't realised how long it would take to empty a house.

I helped my elderly parents move house approx 10 years ago - I remember it took me and my brother 2 weeks to dismantle stuff/ take stuff to the tip/ clean the place thoroughly. The place was left spotless with carpets and all fittings intact.

When my grandparents died a few years ago - it took me and my brother another couple of weeks to clear their house of personal stuff...then was left to a house clearing operation to professionally clean it. All carpets and fittings were left.

When I leave my house I'm likely to leave the bed, wardrobe, most appliances, carpets, stack of lightbulbs, picture hooks, and anything to make life as easy as possible. I will agree this with them beforehand.

[hornetrider]

Skyedriver said:

People just moved in next door, the outgoing family took the wall lights and left bare wires!

In which case the outgoing family can be billed for an electrician to come round and rectify the damage. The fittings must be left electrically safe.

[RemainAllHoof]

Skyedriver said:

People just moved in next door, the outgoing family took the wall lights and left bare wires!

Out of interest, is this something you would expect from your previous neighbours?

[Pickled Piper]

My rule is to leave it the way you would like to find it. Leave the picture hooks as they are etc. We left the new owners of our last place a bottle of Champagne to toast their new house and some sweets for their children.

They were happy to keep forwarding on any stray post.

pp

[hairyben]

Place my parents bought a while back, bloke was a bit of a tosser and didn't get the price he wanted so excluded all the fitted carpets/curtains and wanted extra money for them, which my folks didn't pay, so he went down there and paid a couple of labourers to remove it all, including a carpet with fire (cinder) damage in the reception, and carpet with a rotten/damp corner, and would have taken the stairs/landing carpet (totally unusable as will form memory) had they not agreed a price.

Another, a customer of mine was selling a house and had me remove wall lights that I'd installed for the previous owner, and was walking around talking to his missus "what about the curtain pole? What about the toiler brush?". This was on a house that would have sold for over £3M.

There some tossers out there.

[philmots]

Take what you need... I wouldn't want to move into a new place and put in old carpets and light firings etc.

When we moved in here there was picture hooks all over the Walls. Didn't bother me in the slightest.

[mugs56]

What about the holes where my shelves have been ? I have lots of shelves in my house and would like to take most of them with me. I think out of courtesy I will mess about filling them etc.