Knocking bathroom and toilet rooms together - breeze blocks?

Hi,

Can anyone offer me any advice please?

I am renovating a 50 year old ex council house and am removing a wall between a small toilet and small bathroom to make one big room on the 1st floor.

I removed the skirting board today and some plaster from the bottom of the wall. The wall looks like it is made of breeze block resting on a wooden strut, which is itself resting on the floor boards. Is there anything I need to bear in mind when removing these blocks? I expected it to be a normal brick wall underneath the plaster.

The wall runs parallel with the joists in the loft and has nothing on top of its length (a parallel joist runs a few inches away from it). There is no wall underneath it on the groundfloor. The wall also runs in the opposite direction to the floor boards that it sits on.

Many thanks,
Rich

Sound slike a typical partition block wall, quite often built with 3" thick blocks. Removal should be straightforward and a little dusty.

There may be some cosmetic cracking of the ceiling below as the floor de-deflects...or un-deflects.....or returns to undeflected.....straightens!

I'd try to dismantle it in a controlled manner rather than going hell for leather with a sledge hammer. These walls don't tend to be very well keyed at the ceiling and side walls and can become very unstable when you start whacking them because they are so thin (2" + render round my way). They also seem to have a mind of their own as to where they crack under hammering.
Cover your porcelain well if you're hoping to keep it.

cmother1 said:

porcelain well .

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That`s a new name for the WC pan

Just thought I would drop an update in. I cut around the plaster with a small chisel and lump hammer. The first course was the hardest to remove as it had all the plaster tape attached. After this first course, all I did them was hammer the chisel into the wall at roughly the mortar line (left the plaster on the wall), and the wall broke up in large pieces. Quite dusty as you guys said it would be. Thanks for your advice, I covered everything with dust sheets, including the bathroom suite.

I have a further few questions now about the plastering (the back walls are not level as I suspected and had been suggested), but will post in the plastering section.

Thanks again.
Rich