What's in an unfurnished flat ?

[milanbenes]

Landed a gig where I will need to rent. I found an unfurnished 1 bed flat (as advertised) and after viewing i did take it. Mostly it's OK but thought it might come with a few more furnishings - nets, blinds,cyrtains etc.

Is there any law that defines that as a minimum an unfurnished flat should contain....

I personally would expect to only have to bring clothes plus very few other things as per my last place. What would you expect in an unfurnished flat?


Milan.

[HairyArsedBloke]

What would you expect in an unfurnished flat?


Milan.

1. A strange smell
2. Plenty of space

[Sockpuppet]

1. A strange smell
2. Plenty of space

[NickFitz]

What would you expect in an unfurnished flat?

I'd expect it to be unfurnished, in the sense of containing no furnishings (defined as "furniture, fittings, and other decorative accessories, such as curtains and carpets, for a house or room").

The clue is in the wording

[BrowneIssue]

Things we've found in an 'unfurnished' house:

• A gas cooker with a gas safety certificate yet the oven thermostat doesn't work so it just gets hotter and hotter...
• clothes moths
• 'soiled' tissues in what clearly had to have been a teenage boy's bedroom
• overdue library books
• a broken lamp (which we had to put back where we found it when we left)
• a freezer that caught fire when plugged in
• a bed that was alive (the letting agent threw it out the bedroom window!)
• the curtain track. On the floor . "Feel free to put it up"
• the very well-rotted remnants of the freezer contents
• lots of tiny pieces of broken glass in a carpet
• a loft completely full of flammable materials: paint, thinners, butane cylinders and boxes of paper and clothes
• toast crumbs and cheese drips in EVERY grill in EVERY cooker
• a complete absence of any light bulbs
• a wet dog smell that wouldn't go away for months
• a smell of wee that never went away (apparently that was the room the old woman eventually died in)
• oh yes, that teenage boy's room: dirty magazines with some pictures torn out and pages that were stuck together
• a single out-of-date bottle of lager "you can have that as a housewarming gift, ha, ha" said the landlord
• a garage piled so high with all the crap the landlord and the previous tenants didn't want such that we couldn't get our crap in there
• a barbecue grill on wheels that was completely rusted through (and on the inventory as "to be kept clean")
• a bunch of keys that open none of the locks in or on the property
• one blocked sink (is that an EU requirement? It seems to be a standard feature)
• some bare wires poking out of a hole in a bedroom wall ... live and connected to the cooker circuit
• a live double wall socket with the front cover broken off
• an infestation of flies that never ends despite how many 1000s you kill (that's in the loft in the current gaff)
• a vacuum cleaner that doesn't
• a lawn mower that doesn't
• leaking taps
• no stopcock, anywhere
• a pale coloured carpet (potentially pre-stained) (to ensure you don't get your deposit back)
• a boiler that produces small quantities of tepid water but vast amounts of banging and gurgling
• a shower curtain with more life forms than Longleat
• a hairy toilet (especially if there have been students resident)
• wobbly toilet seat(s) (another EU requirement)
• the dirtiest bin in the neighbourhood (they play swapsies, you know, to get cleaner ones)
• huge quantities of junk mail for previous residents
• at least one utility chasing a red bill
• in one instance, a Police visit at 6 a.m. on Sunday morning (the previous occupant had been naughty)
• the TV licencing bastards making your life a misery
• all the voting cards you could ever wish for
• lots of dead flies on the windowsills
• peeling wallpaper
• a solitary kitchen utensil in a drawer that has enough rotted foodstuff on it to qualify as a Peperami

The precise contents may vary: check the inventory.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

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I personally would expect to only have to bring clothes plus very few other things as per my last place. What would you expect in an unfurnished flat?


Milan.

EH? Are you confusing furnished and unfurnished?

There is no legal definition

http://www.landlordzone.co.uk/FAQ/in...=21&artlang=en

[shaunbhoy]

What would you expect in an unfurnished flat?


Milan.

The Spanish Inquisition. Nobody expects them!!
Apart from that, I would expect it to be unfurnished.

HTH

[PRC1964]

Things we've found in an 'unfurnished' house:
snip

This is why I don't rent.
Mind you a lot of the hotels I've stayed in have been pretty disgusting.

[NickFitz]

Things we've found in an 'unfurnished' house:

• ...
• a barbecue grill on wheels that was completely rusted through (and on the inventory as "to be kept clean")
• ...

For some reason, that's the one that made me laugh out loud

I still think it would have been quite amusing if the letting agent had brought somebody round to the flat downstairs from me and found that cannabis farm in there - I bet they'd have whipped out the inventory and added "six plastic watering cans (large)" to it straightaway

The Police left them behind, together with large numbers of seed trays; I did think of contacting the local allotment association to see if there were any takers, but the landlord skipped them

[Pogle]

Spiders