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gefunk
Feb 6, 2007, 5:05 PM
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Alright all, I could use some serious help. I have a room in my house that is currently not in use and I want to make a little of it into a climbing wall. Kicker is this house is given to me by my job so it needs to be the freestanding type. I have done a lot of research on here about it but I was wondering if any people recently have some wall building experience and would love to share it with a fellow starved climber? Thanks all for the help.
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granite_grrl
Feb 6, 2007, 5:18 PM
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Freestanding wall:
Built on a A-frame. Wish I knew the details of the size of the suports, etc, but I hope this gives you the basic idea.
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dbrayack
Feb 6, 2007, 5:43 PM
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Very nice design, couldn't have done it better myself....I'd go for this design.
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dbrayack
Feb 6, 2007, 5:43 PM
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See my reply to granite girl
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anykineclimb
Feb 6, 2007, 5:53 PM
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yep. A Frame. Granite Girls's pic is a perfect example.
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minexploration
Feb 6, 2007, 6:01 PM
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Here is a picture of my wall. It is like the one shown but I enclosed one side of the frame so I would have more climbing area. In total there is 5 4x8 sheets of plywood used as climbing area.
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powpierre
Feb 6, 2007, 6:15 PM
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I have seen many of these A frames and they work well and do not leave marks. The otherway is to build a frame of 2 by 4's inside the room and pad between the frame and the existing drywall with carpet pading. I built a u shaped room inside an apartment once and it worked well. The closed end is very stable and if you put braces high and low at the open end it is pretty stable it the walls are pretty tight to the existing rooms wall. You can then build any structure off of the new frame. This requires much more lumber but it allows for 3 walls rather than just the one.
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corduroyrob
Feb 6, 2007, 7:05 PM
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i spent a lot of time on here try'n to find ideas for my home gym - and in the end just did my own thing. its a totally free standing wall. 12' wide 8' tall 8' deep - i dont go to crazy cheap on the lumber. 3/4 plywood and 2X6's accross the top and back and a lot of 2X4's. its pretty sturdy. its steep at about 45 deg. but does the trick. in the end it cost me $300 more or less. the holds are the expensive part.
an aditional thing i would suggest would be to look into brackets - they had a small section in lowes that had all different types and angles of brackets. this will allow the gym to bend but adds much more security to each joint or intersection. also i used deck screws so i can easily take it apart and put it back together - as will be the case in a month when my new house should be completed.
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mushroomsamba
Feb 6, 2007, 10:38 PM
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I just finished mine in agust it's only 8-8 so it's not huge but it's on a steep angle. I made it from an A frame with 24 inch studs in the back with 3/4 inch ply. the whole thing is held up by 2 4x4s and it's bomber, I do big dynamic moves left and right on that thing and it wont move an inch
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gefunk
Feb 15, 2007, 4:51 PM
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Woah,
Thanks for all the help guys. I was kind of figuring it and I was wondering if a rectangle (supported on 3 sides by a wall, wall, wall ceiling and struts) would actually hold up? Or is an A frame the best answer? I like the responses though, thanks for all of them. And the pictures helped a lot as well. I am going to make this my project. Oh yeah....the dimmensions of rectangle would probably be, 12 feet accross, 6 feet deep, and 8 or so feet high. The room is pimp.
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