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Those sorts of things seem to have flourished briefly in this country round about the middle of the last century but didn't really catch on long term. On le continent by contrast, they're everywhere and people are still using them today.

I've found the problem with stripping plaster or render off them that the render is a lot stronger than the clay blocks, if there was a lot of cement in the mix, so it's easy to break them.
My first house had the internal skin of the walls and all internal 4 &1/2" walls in those clay monstrosities. :(
Hard to hang a sink to a wall when the wall is only 1/2" thick effectively and 1/4" of that is the plaster.
My Dad taught me how to resolve the problem by knocking out the "failed" screw mount holes and filling the clay "pot" with mortar and setting studding (with the tails cut in 2 and fan-tailed out) in the right place. A solid fixing was available within a day.

On the plus side...... the internal wall betwixt bath & bog was easy to take down. :)
 
Hacking off not going well, nearly two hours in now, bigger job than the lad was told so won't be done today, not enough boarding supplied for job so will have to do what he can and then re book it, that'll be six weeks wait then, flippin councils couldn't organise a brewery trip 😡
That's uncommon in the UK terracotta blocks
 
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