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What's between plasterboard and the soil stack?

Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 5:19 pm
by herbiehowler
Hi
Trying to put up a small shelf above the wash basin. It's a hollow wall, but I seem to have gone through the plasterboard into something else, on both fixings. Don't want to hit the soil stack. Any suggestions?
Thanks

Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 7:06 pm
by Perry525
That plasterboard is probably fixed (nailed/screwed) to some wood battens.
The trick is to find the battens with a metal detector.