What does your Woody look like???
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Honestly its none of their business to start with, thats why you tell them to scram if they hound you too much. |
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Hey all! I started out with figuring out the room I had to work with so I can still park 2 cars in my garage. I screwed straight into the studs in the garage wall for the headers and footers, added the framing and bracing, and made the final cuts!The wall ended up being 10'x8.5'. Ill put up finished photos this weekend. |
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Chimi wrote:Guys and Gals, Just wanted to remind you to get your permitting stuff done if applicable to where you live. I built my wall without requesting a permit AFTER having read the rules for permit exempt structures and designing it within the allowable constraints of a playground/playset, shed, etc. type of structure and deciding that it was okay to do. The county, at least for now, refuses to classify it as a playset. I have no clue what else it would be classified as it certainly seems in spirit very similar to a playset. Some playsets even have climbing walls on them! Just a few words of caution!My outdoor structure is classified as an 'out building', a storage shed that could not be more than certain square footage or height. I kept to those restrictions, but have non permanent pop-up sections on roof to add 8 to 12 ft. of climbing height over the years. Of course my 'shed' is 4 sided, some sides far from vertical, and with the growth of my back yard trees has become pretty well hidden. Snooping village inspectors are always coming around homes, driving up and down street LOOKING for violations to spin up money here. Everybody hates them and run when they see their truck coming down the street, or close up garage door to hide construction projects. So far, after almost19 years since I built it, they have not bothered me. (Police here very supportive,most think I'm working for CIA or something secret,,,) Love some of the newer walls shown here,, some great looking outdoor pary scenes certainly a possibility. |
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Jake Jones wrote:Nice wall csass. One thing though- you should pop some lines where your studs are, and then take your panels back off to mark and drill holes and then install Tnuts. It's a hell of a lot easier to work with when it's on a table or a pair of sawhorses. I wish I had your garage.Thanks Jake! We tacked the plywood up so we could get our marks for the T nuts. We used a chalk snap line once they were up to make an 8" matrix. The walls are down now, pre-drilled, and ready for T nut installation today. Thanks for the advice! Will post a finished product picture this weekend. |
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y2kdeuce wrote:Hey Folks, Planning to build my first wall. I have a corner in a second floor addition to work with. Should I build over the drywall or remove it to work with the bare studs? This is a picture before the insulation and drywall was added.any inspector wants a fire wall, just wait and go over |
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Greetings from Japan. I've been living and teaching English here for over three years now, and I've got something to sort-of climb on- |
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MJMobes wrote: any inspector wants a fire wall, just wait and go overMJM is right. Also, if you ever take down the wall, you'll have done the construction already. If I were you, I'd put up sheetrock first. Make sure you use the correct type of insulation so that you don't have moisture issues. |
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I currently have a little wall under my veranda. With some home renos we are doing the current veranda will move up the back yard and I will have the thing to use. It will remain open. Below is a design I have been toying with on sketchup |
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WilInBris wrote: What do you see as the positives and negatives? What changes would you make?Not unlike my home wall. I would move the red section into the middle. That will make for some interesting transitions between sections. You will love the red sections multiple angles as it will really work core strength. However, on the red, the high kickplate section with horizontal roof bit will allow you to get into some rest positions that you don't want. To deal with this, I made it closer to a typical kickplate height(~16") and a 60 degree(measured from the wall, not floor) section, and then transitioned into 15 degree. I would have made the top part steeper(20-25) but didn't have the room behind me. |
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WilInBris wrote: What do you see as the positives and negatives? What changes would you make?Not unlike my home wall. I would move the red section into the middle. That will make for some interesting transitions between sections. You will love the red sections multiple angles as it will really work core strength. However, on the red, the high kickplate section with horizontal roof bit will allow you to get into some rest positions that you don't want. To deal with this, I made it closer to a typical kickplate height(~16") and a 60 degree(measured from the wall, not floor) section, and then transitioned into 15 degree. I would have made the top part steeper(20-25) but didn't have the room behind me. |
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rogerk wrote: I would move the red section into the middle. That will make for some interesting transitions between sections. You will love the red sections multiple angles as it will really work core strength. However, on the red, the high kickplate section with horizontal roof bit will allow you to get into some rest positions that you don't want. To deal with this, I made it closer to a typical kickplate height(~16") and a 60 degree(measured from the wall, not floor) section, and then transitioned into 15 degree. I would have made the top part steeper(20-25) but didn't have the room behind me. Tevis Blom wrote:Maybe add horizontal panels on the ceiling to tie all the walls together. The blue 20 degree wall will probably not get used much. Might as well make the middle wall wider and close to 45 degrees. in my experience the less steep walls are just not as fun, and end up not seeing much traffic.Thanks for the input guys. The roof will definitely get covered. It is on my sketchup but you can't see from that angle I posted. So what if I move the blue wall onto the east wall (currently empty) and extend the green. Thoughts? Unfortunately the red wall can't go in the middle as that is where the doors are. Not really a fan of getting clocked in the head by a hold. |
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Amazing wall... not mine, but I wish! Belongs to Greg Stokes. |
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My friends, I have been dreaming of this for ten years at least and it is finally coming together. Everything you see here was built over the last two weeks. This is a work in progress, more pics to come as more is built :) |
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^^^ that is going to be an awesome wall! |
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Need some cocneptual/design help, and this thread seemed like the place. I'm pretty sure I"ll doa lousy job of describing this, and may need pics, but I'll try. |
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James - this sounds like quite the engineering feat. |