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if your house is old the dish may be embedded in concrete or plasster
of paris. iow, there could be some excavation to do.

had a tp dispenser to remove, my house was built in 1950, i have
plaster walls over drywall backing (weird), and that sucker would not
come off.

Nothing weird about your walls. From the end of the war until plaster was
discontinued, most walls were done with gypsum lath, which was a drywall
type of material that came in sheets 3/8" thick x 16" x 48" and coated with
a special paper that the plaster base would stick to. I work on my fathers
house in 1967 and that method was used for plaster walls.