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Ah, the case of the settlement cracks. I'm used to the hairline cracks from the drying process of a new build and even some slightly wider cracks that I've come across in past buildings and simply scrim taped and covered with great success so I'm hopeful that this is the case here. I do think that the current resident should know as she moved in with her elderly mother(now deceased) 20 years ago and hasn't done anything other than clean the place while she sat and looked at it in that 20 years. I noted cracks in only 2 rooms at opposite ends of an 8 room house so it's not that it looks like a complete section is moving. I think I'm overthinking the issue and being overly cautious because of my heightened stress these days. Anyway, we'll soon find out
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The kitchen is a quandary. When I looked at it on line it looked like a definite replacement job but I was gobsmacked when we viewed it as, despite it's age, it looked like it had been installed that day. It would be a terrible waste, and a crying shame, to just rip it out. However, it isn't configured to take our modern appliances. I'll get the guy that installed our kitchen to have a look and see if it's possible to just alter the layout and put a new worktop down as that would save a lot. The design would then be more 'retro' than our existing kitchen but it is very nice and very obvious quality.