Internal walls - plaster honeycomb

[leescortxr3i]

Hello. I'm wondering if anyone can please identify the type of internal walls which I appear to have in my new home as I have never come across these before! They appear in the internal walls upstairs. I'm not certain whether they are all like this as I've only taken one down so far.

The walls are composed entirely of plaster (not plasterboard), made up of a front face and a rear face of plaster and in-between these is a honeycomb of large plaster hexagons. This type of wall appears to be modular as it's made by butting 'units' together to form a complete wall, so I'm assuming they were lifted into place?

Unfortunately I didn't get a photo of them before smashing them out, but one picture I managed to locate on Google shows what they look like. Unfortunately they didn't seem to be identified.

I'm wanting to add a doorway in the middle of this type of wall and I'm uncertain whether it can be done, or whether the whole wall will need removing and replacing with stud work? If anyone can advise I would be grateful.
cheers,
Lee

 

[Deleted member 292770]

Not worth messing with .i’d pull it down and build a stud wall.

 

[leescortxr3i]

Thanks for your reply. I'm tempted to pull down but can't tell if it'll be structural? Strangely, I've just drilled a test hole in one of the external walls and this stuff is also lining those walls too! It must be two coats of bricks and an internal layer of this plaster hexagon stuff! Going to make it tough to hang a wall mounted toilet from that!

 

[^woody^]

AKA Paramount.

You would need to hollow out the partition and fit a 2x2 floor to ceiling , but you will struggle to get a door lining to look acceptable in such a narrow partition.

 

[leescortxr3i]

Hi woody. Thanks for the reply. I had read about paramount boarding, but the stuff I have is made entirely of plaster and doesn't have the cardboard filling the centre like paramount boards. I've never seen this stuff before in my life!

 

[leescortxr3i]

Ah think I may have found out what it's called - Bellrock Board / Bellrock Plaster.

Has anyone heard of this?

 

[Deleted member 292770]

Thanks for your reply. I'm tempted to pull down but can't tell if it'll be structural? Strangely, I've just drilled a test hole in one of the external walls and this stuff is also lining those walls too! It must be two coats of bricks and an internal layer of this plaster hexagon stuff! Going to make it tough to hang a wall mounted toilet from that!

could well be structural given the glass fibres in it. Where in the country are you? i’ve not seen this before.

 

[leescortxr3i]

could well be structural given the glass fibres in it. Where in the country are you? i’ve not seen this before.

Hi I'm in Sheffield. The only references I've found to this material are for properties constructed by a Glasgow-based building firm, so not sure why it's cropping up down in Yorkshire!
I think I'll need to get a structural engineer in you tell me whether I can remove these walls or not. I'm hoping I can just knock them down and replace with a stud wall.

 

[Dereekoo]

could well be structural given the glass fibres in it. Where in the country are you? i’ve not seen this before.

Structural? Look out for the big bad wolf, must find a BS or CoP on plasterboard walls

 

[^woody^]

could well be structural given the glass fibres in it. Where in the country are you? i’ve not seen this before.

The plaster niche on my wall has fibres in it, but it's not holding up the wall.

 

[Deleted member 292770]

The plaster niche on my wall has fibres in it, but it's not holding up the wall.

‘could’

 

[Deleted member 292770]

The plaster niche on my wall has fibres in it, but it's not holding up the wall.

the foundation of my house has fibres in and does hold the walls up.

 

[^woody^]

the foundation of my house has fibres in and does hold the walls up.

By that logic, a bowl of Kellogg's All-Bran is full of fibre, so why aren't foundations made of this?

 

[sparkymarka]

What area in sheffield is it ?

 

[Deleted member 292770]

By that logic, a bowl of Kellogg's All-Bran is full of fibre, so why aren't foundations made of this?

Try a bowl . maybe it’ll direct all your sh!t to the correct orifice