What Is the Cost of a Rock Climbing Wall?

Video Transcript

"Hello, my name is Scott and I'm the owner of Climb On! indoor rock climbing gym in Wilmington, North Carolina. Today we're going to discuss the cost of building a rock climbing wall. Rock climbing is inherently dangerous and can result in serious injury or death. You want to make sure that you get the proper instruction on how to build a climbing wall utilize the climbing wall and run a climbing wall. When you start to think about buying a climbing wall, there's a few factors you want to look at. A, the space that you've got to put that wall in. The height of your wall, the size of your wall and the padding. All of these things combined for the construction of you wall are going to run you somewhere in between 70 and 90 dollars a square foot depending on the company that you buy your equipment from. Anytime that you're talking about building a climbing wall or buying a climbing wall, you want to make sure that you've got the proper instruction and the proper tools and contractors to do the work. If this is something you're going to get into, make sure that you call some climbing wall manufacturers, get good designs that are engineered to take the forces and the weight of the falls that you're going to incur on these walls. This has been how to buy a climbing wall."