Are the walls brick or timber studs, around the pantry?

If you don’t know, then knock on the wall of pantry, if timber studs it will sound hollow. If it is brick in will be a solid sound.

If timber studs, once electrical is disconnected from power point on pantry wall, and assume inside light, you can remove this yourself with a sledgehammer.

thank u Dreamer! i just knocked and sounded hollow i think its timber stud

Alright its that easy is it? didnt know thanks for that:)

You will then need a gyprocker to redo the walls and ceiling cornice.

But make sure all your electrical services have been DISCONNECTED, not just turned off.

Also you said you are in a townhouse. Is there a body corporate, if so, you will have to inform them of any changes, and get approval.

Thank u me me! Yes guessing its going to make fair bit of mess me doing it so defiantly needs fixing

Disconnect power got u dreamer thanks for that and yep will speak to body corp and get approval.

Doing your own demo is fun:
After the electrics and body Corp as above.

Remove the door
Remove any internal shelves
Remove the skirts and architraves
Remove the cornice
Cut the plaster with a box cutter along the wall you are keeping.
You can then pull/peel the plaster off.
After that you’ll have the framing skeleton exposed.
Starting at the top you can start removing the studs and wood frame.

Go slowing and carefully.
If you’re more of a visual person there are videos on YouTube.

Thank u for the detailed steps bigreader! Yes am a visual person so will look for some vids on YouTube thanks for the advice!🙏

I removed a similar pantry many years ago. I did it the way big reader suggested. Much better than using a sledgehammer like the renovation tv shows.

Me me. Sometimes I’m sensible but I do like the sledgehammer also. It’s great stress release (but sadly really better for when there is whole room demo). I’ve just been using the pressure cleaner and anything standing still has been cleaned.

thank u guys all for valuable info🙏

Hi, Go Suga, we do this type of work all the time. If you are renovating your kitchen in the process I suggest that you talk to a Kitchen company that do full renovations, including remedial structural work like this. Taking out this wall may not be a simple as you are being led to believe. This wall may be supporting a load from above, so this is actually the first thing you need to check.

With all the advice given, no one has discussed how you deal with the holes in the wall and ceiling once the wall is removed and how to actually remove this wall in such a way to minimize damage to adjacent surfaces so to simplify the filling and flushing. This is the hard part.

If you have no real building experience then I suggest you do not do this yourself and engage a professional experienced in this type of work.

Hope this helps. Malcolm

Compass kitchens, yes, me me has pointed out the need to repair walls and cornices. And bigreader pointed out to do it slow and carefully. We saved a substantial amount of money, by gutting our kitchen ourselves. We got an electrician and plumber in to shut off services. It was labour only and saved us money to be able to have a custom kitchen installed. Load bearing walls are important, and yes these need to be checked also. But if you are prepared as a home owner, the removal of this small pantry can be done yourself.

I belive your will have a really great pantry by removing the wall, if those can removed..

Then you will need to consider how to make use of this space.

Bellow are a few types of pantry cabinets for your reference:

Thank u Compass kitchens for super pro advice. Does sound a lot more work than I imagined. I have contacted few pros from Houzz hopefully I can get some idea on how much it would cost us and also if there are any basic works which we might be able to do during the reno process to help reduce cost.

Thanks to everyone now I know theres couple of things I need to check before actually doing the demo, body corp and load bearing walls. Once thats all cleared I guess we would still like to get some quotes to see just how much it would cost and weight up wether we do some of the work our self. And if we do decide to do it our self we got bigreaders detailed instructions to demo(slow and carefully:) and then get gyprocker in to fix the walls. Either way we have lot more knowledge now than before I posted this so we’re just really thankful for all the info thanks guys🙏