r/homewalls

Hello all, Has anyone ever experienced (or heard of) damage to a home/garage due to home wall use over time? (e.g. floor joist rotation/displacement)

I want to put a home wall in my unfinished basement. My intent is to build a 40 degree wall 7 ft tall oriented perpendicular to the floor joists. Thus the climbing wall header would span multiple joists along their length. I will be in this home long-term.

Short term, I am not concerned. Say 2 years of use. I am curious what the implications are of having a home wall that is used 1x (maybe 2x) a week for a decade.

Anyone have experience with a home wall on this time scale? Any effects? End up taking it down? Still climbing on it and good as ever? (follow up question: has anyone built parallel to the joists with a sleeper across multiple joists?)

I want to build my wall into the corner of the garage, so it will be something like 8 ft on one wall to the corner, and 8 ft out in the other wall. I have 12 ft of height.

Rather than just make the angle come straight out I'd like to play with some more interesting structures. Are there any resources/ideas for that?

I was thinking of putting some posts down with a cross beam to attach to, in order to create some potential for other angles.

I talked to Tension and they sell the sections of the board individually.

I'm worried the 8x10 will feel too small quickly. I was debating a setup where a build out a 12x12 frame, and then buy the 8x10 holds, maybe no lights. Then expand it as the budget allows.

Has anyone gone this route and have any feedback on it? Regret it and wish you just waited and did the full at once? Just stayed on 8x10 and don't oversize the frame?

I'm planning out my homewall right now which I plan on building 8' x 10' for a 9' ceiling. Minimum angle to be ~20 degrees or ~30 degrees depending on what I want to do for the kicker.

The back wall that I would like to mount the winch/safety straps has two windows and some tubing at the very top of the wall. Would it be better to mount the stringer against the studs lower on the wall (Probably at around ~6ft off the ground) or against the joists on the ceilings? How many studs/joists would you say is the minimum for the stringer?