Moving Home – Are Window Blinds Classed As Fixtures & Fittings?
Securing a new home is lovely. Moving from your old home, however, not so much. The one thing that you need to make sure of if you want your rental deposit back is that every item in the home is as you had found it when you moved in, but sometimes the new owner would like you to leave a few of those fixtures or fittings because they might find them helpful. Blinds are usually one thing that people love you to leave behind because it saves them from a new hassle.
If you decide to gift the new homeowners with your old set of blinds, then contact Reynolds Blinds Worcester to help your fit new blinds in no time at all.
Fixtures and Fittings
Fixtures are items that require the wall or foundation of the property to help it remain balanced, and a fitting is something that can be moved around freely. If your purchase contract does not include you taking your blinds with you when you move house, it is considered a fixture. Everything else that can be quickly taken down, like moving cupboards, mirrors, or any free-standing furniture, are all items that belong to you and weren’t added to the property are fittings. Blinds are an additional fixture that adds to the house’s aesthetics pretty much the same way you would add a swimming pool. You can take down blinds that hang without brackets and mounts, and if it leaves no marks that need professional attention, it can be considered personal property.
Brackets and mounts that were explicitly fitted to a window can be regarded as fixtures and are sold or leased to the new tenants or homeowners. The decision to class them as fixtures come from the fact that you generally expect there to be curtain rails when you move into a home, and the window itself would need that fixture for the curtains to stay up. If the owner or tenant removes those rails, it leaves the following person with an additional responsibility to make the home livable for themselves. Curtains are an essential feature in a home, and blinds can replace those, but if the rails are not being put back, the blinds will have to stay.
Contractual changes
When you move into a new home, and there are no fittings or blinds present, and you would like to have them professionally installed, it will be best to notify your landlord. You will also need to inform the attorney doing your documentation to take them with you and then arrange for a professional service to have new curtain rails installed. There is no law against what you should leave or take when you move, but fixtures form part of the home and should be sold as useless others stipulated in a legal document that the new homeowners have been notified of before buying the property. To find out more about blind fittings and the various options you have before installing them, contact reynoldsblinds.co.uk for information and quotes.
