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Never found a stud finder to do anything for me. As for finding studs in the ceiling, you can do a number of things, ascertain which way the joists go in your house, easier on older houses as they run perpendicular to the floor boards. tap along the ceiling across the joists and it will sound...

When was your house built?

it would only be upto 1mm, feathered out over a foot each side would not show.

dont chase them back, just apply paper tape over them and feather them out with jointing compound imo.

You can get fittings that fill that large hole but take the 2" torch GU10 lamps.

You could dig around the wall outside to make the ground level lower, ideally by at least 6"

Use insulated plasterboards over top :)

If the floor level outside is higher then that is why you have damp at the foot of your walls.

I would leave in situ if its not hanging off but ensure you fix battens through to the brick.

Whats on the outside of the walls and what height is the ground level in comparison to the finished floor level inside?

You can drill it once it's set, just dont hang the cabinets as joe says, your asking for the chipboard to swell.

push it in across the crack multiple times to get a good deep fill then scrape off excess along the crack.

Lets not get confused here between plastering and skimming, skimming is easy, well it can be easy if the background is right. I'm self taught. Firstly I would read through as many posts on here as you can stomach, theres hundreds of excellent posts by skilled and knowledgeable tradesmen on here...

Dont upgrade your shower unit to a 10.5kW one without ensuring that the supply cable is capable with the added demand, there are a number of factors which apply to cables to denote their current carrying capacity. In my experience, cold water pipes chipped into outside walls cause damp as...

You could cover them with drylining tape and feather out with easyfil or jointing compound.

Yup, as roughcaster says, plug and screw, you wall isnt spot on anyway, very rarely they are so its easy to pack out the battens to make it spot on true which in turn makes the tiling easier.

as it's solid it's going to be very cold and thats why condensation is forming on it. Hardwall wont help you any more than bonding, imo the wall should have been studded infront of with insulation added and p/board over then skimmed.

It could be that you painted too soon, was there signs of damp before you plastered?

Im guessing you have spotlights?

I dont know anything of sempatap and I would imagine insulating wallpaper to be next to useless. if you have no water penetration into the building I can see mildew ect being a problem either.