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Home Wall Idea 2-Mar-2015 At 3:38:40 PM Reg

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On 18/02/2015 Zarb wrote:
>Sorry to revive this post.
>
>I have finally moved in to the new place, and the garage is enormous,
>so the climbing wall plan is a go go.
>I've made some final revisions to the back support section of the wall:
>
>1. Removed every second horizontal support beam. It's a little bit more
>pared down.
>
>2. I've made the vertical beams continuous to make the crack simulator
>uninterrupted, rather than the horizontal beams in previous designs. I'm
>not sure what this will mean for the load on the wall.
>
>With those changes, would it still be a strong wall? If all is well, I'm
>going to start on the frame this weekend hopefully.
>
>
All depends on sizes of beams spans and connections. (structural engineer background)

I'll try and post what I did to simulate cracks on my home wall.