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Garage Gym: Are wall and ceiling studs strong enough?

Anonymous user 09/03/2024 - 3.20 PM

I live in a timber framed house and I'm looking to put a gym in the garage. I have a wall mounted squat rack that I'm going to attach to the wall by first attaching two 3m long lengths of 10x4 carcassing timber into the wall studs and will then join the rack to the stringer. Wall is hollow with platerboard attached to the studs. There are nine studs across the 3m piece of wall (they're unevenly spaced!) I also want to attach some 6x4 stringers across three ceiling studs so that I can then attach gym equipment to them that will need to support my body weight (80kg ish). I've done a fair bit of research of other people doing similar things and am planning to use 10mmx100mm coach screws (with a 5mm pilot hole) to attach the stringers to the wall and ceiling. I just wanted to check before I started that this sounds like a sensible plan and that the wall and ceiling studs are strong enough that putting these coach screws into them at various points won't ruin the structural integrity and cause issues. Any advice would be much appreciated! Thanks a lot in advance for any help.

D.Braithwaite

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Swaffham

I would take out a small section to ascertain the actual size of the studs. I have worked on new builds and some of these studs can be like 2x1. If I felt it was inadequate. I'd suggest you could try to beef it up. But realistically be easier to replace the stud wall with 4x2 and re board. Probably with insolation. The roof trusses should cope if you spread the weight across.

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CATALIN NADEJDE

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Hemel Hempstead

Hi mate, cavity walls are well known of hiding behind all kind of skeletons (live wires, pipes, ducts etc all organized in a spaghetti junction manner). So you have to have at least a decent service/stud detector before start drilling any holes in the wall. As well it will be good for spreading the effort evenly across the structure to use a plywood marine sheet fixed to the wall before start fixing equipment. Happy to assist/help if needed. Cheers, Catalin

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Richard Shayler

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Scarborough

Providing the partition wall is constructed of timber & ceilings are trusses & not a internal steel frame system .you should be ok to fix stringers accords the studwork or truss making sure a good fixing into each crossing. Giving the system a good spread of weight

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