Building Your Own Indoor Climbing Wall

Ask what they like to train on and what brands of holds are used locally.

Building your own indoor climbing wall.

Try to record some basic measurements from the walls you like. If you want to get a total body work out climbing is the way to do it and building your own climbing wall allows you to train and have fun any time you want rather than having to drive to a climbing gym during open hours. The cost can add up to between us 30 40 per square feet. Designing your own wall if you don t have much experience climbing on indoor walls try to visit as many different climbing gyms and home walls as you can before designing your own wall.

Talk to the staff and other members. Screw each header joist into every stud or joist along its span using at least two 14 screws per stud or joist just as described earlier in the top and bottom plate method. Most larger ymca s or other community recreation centers will have one these days. A bouldering wall is constructed in much the same way as a wood framed house.

The individual walls are formed from a lumber framework attached to an existing structure e g your garage wall or supported by its own structure then the framework is sheeted with plywood creating the climbing surface. The more experience you have on other walls the easier it will be to design your own. It requires the same tools and techniques. Building a climbing wall can get fairly expensive depending on how complex or large your structure is.

Frame steep walls by first attaching header joists the equivalent of top and bottom plates to your house s ceiling joists and wall studs. If you re not sure where to start with the design of your own wall try checking out your local climbing gyms to see what would be fun.