home climbing wall ideal height

Hi there! I'm looking for some input on building a climbing wall at home. What is the ideal height. This will be in a new shop building in the same room as a gym. I'm considering 12' sidewalls but is that tall enough? If I went with cathedral ceilings it would be a lot taller, but then it's a whole lot more to keep en entire gym warm with cathedral ceilings. Any input is greatly appreciated. I've searched and have found little input on this.

Thank!

Seriously, as high as you can go and afford.

I think the general consensus is we climb up, the higher the better. Hence, the taller the better. I have two home walls, one 18' tall x 8' wide, the other 12'tall x 70'+/- (it's my ex barn, now all wall) Neither wall is tall enough, i would love 40' walls.
Heated? Two thoughts. We climb best in cool/cold environment. Design the heating/cooling with an engineer; Fans, passive design, insulation, etc. My walls are never too cold, but the heat can be limiting. I live in the foothills in NorCal, snow-100F
As tall as you can afford, and make safe. Landing pads are $$$!!

Can't be too tall and heat is worse than cold for me too. I climbed in my garage all winter but 100deg days in the summer suck in the garage.

+1 to the dude with the barn. I've got a 12 high by 14 wide wall in a barn and I'd love to go bigger. You're gonna spend a lot on holds to fill it, but if you can do it do it.

The taller the better man, if you wanna get warmer, put on some pants.

Seth Derr wrote:+1 to the dude with the barn. I've got a 12 high by 14 wide wall in a barn and I'd love to go bigger. You're gonna spend a lot on holds to fill it, but if you can do it do it.

Go as tall as you can..I'm assuming as most that this is an indoor wall, not an outdoor home wall. My barn wall was 26 ft high and 78 ft wide. Had 14 ropes set up. It was cookin' hot up there in the summer, and down to about zero in the winter. Obviously spring and fall were the best seasons to be there.

Will this be rope climbing or bouldering? My latest is just a bouldering wall and tops out at 14 feet. Guess I'm a wuss as that's plenty tall for me without a rope.

Are you going to use ropes or boulder?

If you are bouldering, consider: will you always have a spotter, how high you are willing to fall from, what your landing surface will be like....Holds spin, holds break, what happens if you swing and come off horizontally? For a home BOULDERING wall I would not feel comfortable over 12 feet if I actually planned on doing anything hard on it because I know I would not always (probably usually not) have a spotter.

In climbing gyms with dedicated flooring systems the standard is 12-14 feet and there is a reason for that. There are a handful of gyms out there that go higher, like 18' but they are the exception, not the rule.