HELP!!! Garage climbing wall question

wall 16.5ft overall, 11ft overhang and 7ft vertical traverse

I just built a wall in my garage and trying to figure out the best way to attach the wood to the transition. There is significant twist where it goes from vert to overhang. Also, you can see that the top its a good 2.5 feet out from the bottom corner. Does any one have experience with this?

One option is to piece together smaller triangles in the transition.

It will be tricky the way it's framed. Short answer... your inside corner is a single stud, so you have to break two sheets on different planes on the same stud. The outside corner will be a little easier but same deal. I'd lay the sheets down (ie run them horizontally not vertically). Measure up 4 feet on each side to find out where the top of the sheet is and get a (horizontal) length top and bottom. The right side is the square side. The cuts will be kinda trapezoidal but you can flip your cut-off and use it up on the next piece. If you're worried about making the corner nice, you could let them all run a little long on the outside corner, then snap a line top to bottom and cut them in place with a circular saw. Also- would be best if the cross members were on 16" centers going up too. Hope this makes sense.

Also: it may be perspective but your garage track looks awfully close. Don't wanna fall on that.

Looks great! You should be able to get ply wood to work that twist. Make sure that the bend is along the 4 ft section of the ply wood so you aren't working against the grain. If you are struggling you can wet the ply wood with hot water and it will become more pliable.

Doug S wrote:It will be tricky the way it's framed. Short answer... your inside corner is a single stud, so you have to break two sheets on different planes on one stud. The outside corner will be a little easier but same deal. I'd lay the sheets down (ie run them horizontally not vertically. Measure up 4 feet on each side to find out where the top of the sheet is and get a (horizontal) length top and bottom. The right side is the square side. The cuts will be kinda trapezoidal but you can flip your cut-off and use it up on the next piece. Hope this makes sense. Also: it may be perspective but your garage track looks awfully close. Don't wanna fall on that.

Thanks Doug! The vertical wall is almost right up against the garage rail, we are just going for a low traverse to add moves into the overhang. here is another angle of the twist. I agree with cutting the plywood into many pieces. here is a photo of the twist.
wall transition

Tighe Blackadar wrote:Looks great! You should be able to get ply wood to work that twist. Make sure that the bend is along the 4 ft section of the ply wood so you aren't working against the grain. If you are struggling you can wet the ply wood with hot water and it will become more pliable.

Thank you! I was also thinking about soaking it, then attaching it to dry

You'll get it. Looks cool!

Good luck!

I kind of did the same thing, but linked a 40 degree wall to a 30 degree. I just ended up using small triangles put together kind of haphazardly, and a lot of caulk to fill in the gaps. I tried to brush off my geometry skills and made multiple cuts on the ends of the 2x6s, but just ended up wasting a lot of wood. Yours looks way more professional.

Framing

Finished

Tighe Blackadar wrote:Looks great! You should be able to get ply wood to work that twist. Make sure that the bend is along the 4 ft section of the ply wood so you aren't working against the grain. If you are struggling you can wet the ply wood with hot water and it will become more pliable.

I doubt that 3/4" plywood is going to bend that easily. One thing to try is to make a bunch of vertical cuts on the back side of the plywood. Adjust the saw to go about 2/3 of the way through the wood.

Another option is to cover that area with 3 layers of 1/4" plywood, which bends easily. Screw the sheets on one at a time. Slather some construction adhesive between the layers and use lots of decking screws.

Get you plywood from home depo t. All their ply looks like that.

You could use three layers if 1/4" plywood, glue between layers as you screw it on.

^^this 1/4"ply x3 w/ glue between sheets. Many a sk8 ramp transistion is done this way.

I think for half pipes and other ramps. Don't the soak the plywood in water?? I'm not sure but it might make is bendable. Look up how to make a half pipe and see how they get those sheets of plywood to bend.

the transition is gone

Had to take out the transition portion. I was going to go the three 1/4" route but that was for more expensive, then trying to get the T-nuts in the back would have been tough. There will be 105 T-nuts per sheet of plywood so we will have a great variety for problems.. Thing is coming together nicely for not measuring a single piece of the large triangle frame

Looks awesome, may even have more route options with the cool little roof section!