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I have thermal blocks that I want to plaster over. Unfortunately every guide I've seen recommends either battens and plasterboard or dabs and plasterboard. I've never seen any guides to doing it the 'old way'. Obviously the latter will take longer, but suppose I really want to go through...

Searched the forum, but couldn't find anything obvious. I'm a weedy f***er, certainly no builder by trade, so I cranked the acrow as tight as I could go (without leaning against it that is). The strongboy plate tip bent by about 5mm away from horizontal. Certainly acrow and and SB are not...

I've been perusing BS7671, and it contains a lot of useful information, however it misses a few things which are perhaps learnt by experience. For instance, for T&E there's a difference in derating depending on where in the stud wall it runs (against the plasterboard or in the insulation)...