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Building a bouldering wall

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alone_withmyaxe 21 Jun 2014
Am coming back to the sport and looking to keep fit in the process.

Part of me wants to build my own wall in the garage, I have space, and permission from the wife, most importantly.
As my skills are rusty and were never that sharp to start with I would like some opinions.

http://i773.photobucket.com/albums/yy16/alone_withmyaxe/Climbing%20Wall%20S...

Here is a link to the plan so far. Not shown on it is that it will have a roof section as well as the overhangs so it can be climbed from one side to the other. This is a version one plans and liable to change so happy for comments and random thoughts about it.

Budget is likely to be in the £500 mark.

Do people thing this is too basic?
Will it be able to become harder as I get better?
Is it worth doing at all?
Any tips from anyone who has done similar already?

Here are a couple of pics of the garage as it stands at the moment, for clarity.

http://i773.photobucket.com/albums/yy16/alone_withmyaxe/Climbing%20Wall%20S...

http://i773.photobucket.com/albums/yy16/alone_withmyaxe/Climbing%20Wall%20S...

http://i773.photobucket.com/albums/yy16/alone_withmyaxe/Climbing%20Wall%20S...
 JIMBO 21 Jun 2014
In reply to alone_withmyaxe:
Given the size just build one simple wall to warm up, do systems and then have a good gingerbread (bloody predictive text! Fingerboard!!), campus board and area for pull up stuff like balls/powergrips, etc.

Oh, and get a weight belt or two.
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