Removing a log burner from sold house?

[Electric Beaver]

My G/f has just sold her house and hopefully will be moving into a new place in a few months. The old house has a log burning stove in the living room and she is desperate to take it with her!

Is this feasible? Would she have to replace it with something (open grate) or just leave a gaping hole with a flue poking down?

[spikeyhead]

It's a fixture so it stays there.

[mk1fan]

Has it's removal been discussed as part of the sale?

[dingg]

Electric Beaver said:

My G/f has just sold her house and hopefully will be moving into a new place in a few months. The old house has a log burning stove in the living room and she is desperate to take it with her!

Is this feasible? Would she have to replace it with something (open grate) or just leave a gaping hole with a flue poking down?

if you're having to ask this you know its wrong to do ,

ask yourself how pissed off your gf would be if the property she just bought had the fire removed just before she moved in

[Bill]

mk1fan said:

Has it's removal been discussed as part of the sale?

This. If it wasn't mentioned on the estate agent's particulars then you might get away with it, but you'll be asked to fill in a fixtures and fittings list by your solicitor and can expect a fuss to be made by the buyer when they find out.

IMO she should replace it with an equivalent if she really must take it with her, and if it's still made it's probably less hassle just to buy a new one.

[craigjm]

If it isnt mentioned on the sales particulars and you state clearly in the conveyancing process that its not included then its fine. However, the buyer may question during the conveyancing why it isnt included and may want to reduce their offer by an amount to allow a new one to be fitted.

Just because it is a fixture doesnt mean it has to stay. I moved into a house once where they took all the carpets, curtains, light bulbs, light switches and sockets (they were chrome) and just about anything else that was able to be removed.

[russ_a]

Owner of the house we purchased, came back to me after the sale and asked if I would like to sell him the gas fire from the living room.

My Mrs hated the thing so we snapped his hand off. God knows how much he paid originally but we sold it to him for £300 IIRC.

[shtu]

Bearing in mind the cost of ripping it out and making good, then getting someone to re-install it, *and* the hassle it will cause during the sale, just buy a new one. It's going to work out little different in cost, and be a lot less grief.

[Puggit]

Paddy_N_Murphy said:

shtu said:

Bearing in mind the cost of ripping it out and making good, then getting someone to re-install it, *and* the hassle it will cause during the sale, just buy a new one. It's going to work out little different in cost, and be a lot less grief.

+100, saves me posting the exact same !

This!

Although our stove is integrated in to the wall, so definitely a no-no!

[Electric Beaver]

Thanks for the replies, pretty much echoed my thoughts.

[Du1point8]

Removal of the stove would be akin to the state that one of my friends found his new garden.

Bought the property due to amongst other things a properly done garden with decking, etc...

Imagine his surprise when he moves in to find the garden looking like a wasteland, the old owners took it all with them, he was straight on to the solicitors as it was not mentioned anywhere about it being taken with them, but other parts were like cooker, etc.

If I remember correctly the original owners were sued for the cost to put in exactly the same garden as they had taken out... was nearing 5 figures that was paid out.

[Davel]

As said before, if it is in the sales particulars then it should stay.

[hairyben]

craigjm said:

If it isnt mentioned on the sales particulars and you state clearly in the conveyancing process that its not included then its fine. However, the buyer may question during the conveyancing why it isnt included and may want to reduce their offer by an amount to allow a new one to be fitted.

Just because it is a fixture doesnt mean it has to stay. I moved into a house once where they took all the carpets, curtains, light bulbs, light switches and sockets (they were chrome) and just about anything else that was able to be removed.

Sounds like a repo.

Although, was asked to remove electrical fixtures buy a seller who didn't evan have them fitted (I'd fitted them for the houses previous owner), including bathroom lights leaving unsightly holes in tiles etc. He was going around after the movers collecting curtain poles, bog brushes etc. £3M+ house in hampstead. Asshole.

The vendor of our house, by contrast, asked our permission to remove a rose bush from the front garden for sentimental reasons!

OP: If it has value to you I'd offer the new owners fitment of a new one, their choice perhaps from a reasonably priced selection.

[chris1roll]

Bloody wish we had.
We had a massive on in the inglenook, was kind of cylindrical with sliding double doors on it, was about 3k new, and they don't make them anymore.

We ummed and ahhed about it and left it behind as that was the morally correct thing to do - what did the new owners do? Ripped it out and used it as a chiminea in the garden What a total fking waste.



(They also had 400 years of patina sandblasted off the inglenook...)

[hidetheelephants]

chris1roll said:

We ummed and ahhed about it and left it behind as that was the morally correct thing to do - what did the new owners do? Ripped it out and used it as a chiminea in the garden What a total fking waste.

Wouldn't it be terrible if some caravan dwellers were to abscond with the stove in the middle of the night?

[Electric Beaver]

Thanks again, she is leaving it and may get a new one at a later date in the new place.