I am looking at re-doing a bathroom, and I imagine pulling off the current plastic sheet tiles will decimate the plasterboard/wall they are on. As a result I am looking at literally cutting this wall in half, and removing the entire board the tiles are fixed to, and replacing it with a water resistant plasterboard (which it currently is I imagine) then a decent tile backer board.
The issue is that this wall is entirely hollow. There are no studs inside of it, nor braces, it is just fixed at the top and along the bottom. I know this through a wall at the opposite end of the house which i dropped a cable down. I drilled a hole from the loft into it then literally dangled the cable and grabbed it at the bottom.
My issue is, how do I replace half of the bathroom wall if I can only fix the plasterboard/tile backer board to the top & bottom?
Googling empty partition wall, hollow partition wall etc etc brings up nothing, so I obviously don't have the right name for this type of wall. The house is a recent build form 2007.
Cheers.
The issue is that this wall is entirely hollow. There are no studs inside of it, nor braces, it is just fixed at the top and along the bottom. I know this through a wall at the opposite end of the house which i dropped a cable down. I drilled a hole from the loft into it then literally dangled the cable and grabbed it at the bottom.
My issue is, how do I replace half of the bathroom wall if I can only fix the plasterboard/tile backer board to the top & bottom?
Googling empty partition wall, hollow partition wall etc etc brings up nothing, so I obviously don't have the right name for this type of wall. The house is a recent build form 2007.
Cheers.