Building Your Own Indoor Climbing Wall

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.

Building your own indoor climbing wall.

A bouldering wall is constructed in much the same way as a wood framed house. 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. To manage the cost better you should make a proper plan out and list the material costs and quantities. 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.

Most larger ymca s or other community recreation centers will have one these days. Talk to the staff and other members. Ask what they like to train on and what brands of holds are used locally. Try to record some basic measurements from the walls you like.

Build your own climbing wall if you really want to get better in the art and act of rock climbing got space and is a diy type of guy a personal climbing wall is a great addon to your home gym or a fun playground for the constructing a bouldering wall is as simple as constructing 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. 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. It requires the same tools and techniques.

The cost can add up to between us 30 40 per square feet. The more experience you have on other walls the easier it will be to design your own.