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It doesn't sound like owning an old house is for you then (or perhaps more accurately your Doris). Which is fair enough. They all need work one way or another and all need constant maintenance (and money).
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You're cutting your nose off to spite your face at this point if you walk away. If the house is fundamentally what you want then just reduce it by 8k and say this represents a contribution towards the (most expensive) quote you hopefully will get for a full reroof but you are absorbing most of it,and I am fairly certain they will come back and offer you 4k or so.
I also wouldn't worry about cracks here or there as long as the wall isn't bulging which presumably your surveyor would have commented on. I have cracks all over the place internally and externally as long as you can't get your hand in them it's unlikely to be a significant problem.
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In 2017 I had the front of my old house in leytonstone reroofed as part of a loft jobby.
New felt, battons and Redlands came to 1400 cash together with waste disposal.
Now that was 2017, part of a bigger job and the scaffolding was up already.
If we assume the house is similar and things have doubled since then and the cost of the skip/scaffold isn't discounted/incidental -id be pretty miffed if I couldn't get the front back outrigger done, dodgy joists replaced for about 8k give or take.
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The surveyor is never ever going to say the roof is lovely and straight and perfect. The surveyors job is to shit over everything and protect his own arse when doing so.
Unless the house is enormous then a new roof isn't a life changing amount of money. For a standard victorian house it's likely to be between 8-10k if you can find a one man band who will do it for cash.
The best case scenario is you knock the seller for 2 or 3 grand, hope it lasts another year or 2 with a little patching up, and save up the 6k you'll need to do the work in the meantime.
Sure ask for the lot as a discount but you're not buying a show home or a new house*
*This now reminds me of my buyer trying to get ten grand off me for windows that were 15 years old, rainwater goods that were 7 years old. I had to get the deal done so I ended up giving him 2.5k off but there was no way he was getting ten grand off me.
This is a negotiation now, so negotiate. You'll both end up unhappy whatever the outcome here and in some ways that is the mark of a roundly successful negotiation exercise.
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This reminds me of when I owned a flat the managing agent, who was an utter corrupt cunt, used to charge £150 plus the vodka and tonic to receive an email and update a spreadsheet he held when you remortgaged to note who your mortgage lender was.
I get that they had to know for a whole host of Reasons but to charge that sort of money was an utter joke.
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Would it be possible to connect from a ground floor ceiling light fitting located in the floor of a bedroom upstairs accessed via the bedroom floor? If you have floor boards it's very easy to do and then just thread the wire through to where it's needed eg the storm porch.
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Perhaps it is me being a cheapskate but I think 45 a metre is incredibly expensive. Mine was 16.99 a sq m and feel like a million dollars. Even though it was 16.99.
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I got him from my bro in law. The fitter turned up to fit on behalf of the carpet shop he purchased it all from and the bloke said I do 2 days a week self employed so call me if you need anything.
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That seems a lot
I did 4 fair size bedrooms, 2 landings, 2 stairs with runners, 100pc wool Berber carpets from online carpets which he measured up for and I paid, and it was about 2.1k I think Inc the fitter and the underlay. The carpet was 1100 I think of that. I think my guy charges 6 quid a sq metre to fit roughly.
I had 110k worth of work done all done on a handshake and no contract.
Probably bloody stupid really.