Affixing tiles with magic

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I need to replace some tiles but the plasterboard is damaged and has broken away due to a leak. How can I patch up this area (there's no access to the rear)?

You can see some wood behind but this moves around freely.
 
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Presumably if the plaster board behind has rotted away, then the tiles we can see are tending to float?
I have had this before, and the only satisfactory answer to me was to carefully remove and clean the tiles to an area which revealed the vertical timber studding, clean up the edges of the plasterboard so that 50% of the studding was visible, replace the plaster board with new and replace the tiles.
Tedious a bit but I did get away with it, and no tiles were broken (which was just as well as there's never any spares!)
John :)
 
Maybe you can use a back block to patch the plasterboard behind the tiles before fixing new tiles over the hole? similar to how you'd go about patching a hole in a plasterboard wall...

This may be easier if you can make a little more room by removing a few of those mosaic strips.
 
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I didn't want to take any more tiles out and decided to just bite the bullet and remove the wooden frame and all the crap in the airing cupboard. I then cut some holes in the wall for access and was then able to patch up the other hole with plasterboard.

I couldn't find any similar sized matching tiles so had to cut some down with an angle grinder.

All in all, I'm quite happy with it.

 

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