Are you intending to build so that the wall will be along one sidewall or across the space?A friend built a board in a similar space (although not brickwork, actually formed from concrete avalanche barriers!) and how it was done was the opposite to how most boards are constructed. The main span was wall to wall (rather than floor to ceiling) with the load being transferred to the walls via an inclined joist.It's always worth remembering masonry is generally pretty shit when in bending.
I’ve very recently chopped up some small campus rungs, given them a couple of soaks in Ronseal wood hardener and they are working well so far.
Quote from: mrjonathanr on August 15, 2022, 09:49:26 pmI’ve very recently chopped up some small campus rungs, given them a couple of soaks in Ronseal wood hardener and they are working well so far.I'll refrain from the obvious joke.
I'm moving into a new house next week and (after various false starts over the past couple of years) am going to order the timber for a board (my third, though the last one was dismantled in the distant past) asap. Prob pretty similar to the one below.Anyway, I'm trying to vaguely plan it, and I'm quite interested in the idea of something 70% symmetrical, with the remainder set with random stuff. Mainly because the one I've trained on most of the time over the past few years is a complete splatter mix with wooden holds and plastic, and I think it would be good for my alternative to be mostly wooden holds and also that I think it would probably be good to force me to do stuff both sides and generally add a little bit more structure. But I have a load of old resin holds which I ought to make use of, and I also need to have some stuff for 7-year-old to get up. And I want to be able to do some longer circuits on it as well.Does anyone have a setup vaguely like this? And if so, does it work well?
Might you get bored of the layout forcing that there's always an awkward move to get your feet around the small roof (and then you probably won't move your feet too much for a while)? Personally I'd be transferring the load from the structure directly into your floor slab where you can too but that's just me.