Hello experts!

I am in the process of converting a storage room into a home gym. A machine will stand on the floor but will be attached to the wall. This means a high load on the wall fastening when pulling the weights. Therefore, I wonder if you, with significantly more material knowledge than the undersigned, can identify the boards in the pictures. Is it chipboard? Tretex? How would you attach?
 
  • Close-up of layered wall materials including wood, fiberboard, and plasterboard adjacent to a copper pipe in a storage-to-gym conversion project.
  • Close-up of a partially torn wallboard, possibly chipboard or fiberboard, with visible textured surface and wood-like interior layers.
  • Close-up of partially damaged wallboard, showing a layer of textured, brown material beneath a thin, white coating, possibly fiberboard or chipboard.
S Spindoctor said:
Hello experts!

I am in the process of converting a storage room into a home gym. A machine will stand on the floor but be attached to the wall. This means a lot of high load on the wall mount when pulling the weights. Therefore, I'm wondering if you with significantly more material knowledge than yours truly can identify the panels in the pictures. Is it chipboard? Tretex? How would you mount it?
I think it looks like chipboard. Can't you reinforce the mounts? For example, by putting an external horizontal beam that is anchored to at least two standing wall studs.
 
G Gabbe1 said:
I think it looks like chipboard. Can't the fittings be reinforced? For example by attaching a horizontal batten on the outside that is anchored in at least two vertical wall studs.
Thanks for the great input :D That sounds like a good option.
 
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