How do I mount a hangboard in an apartment?
In the last few months I have come to the conclusion that I need to have a fingerboard at home if my climbing is to get to the next level.
But the problem is that I live in an apartment. How can I mount a fingerboard in an apartment?
What options are there in an apartment to mount a fingerboard without definitely losing my security deposit? The goal will be to spend a lot of time hanging off of this thing, so it will need to be very reliable bearing my weight.
I have been assuming I NEED to mount this to the wall permanently. Is there another option? Is there an inexpensive way to build a free-standing structure for it?
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You have a few options:
- Don't worry about the lease and accept the fact that you may lose your security deposit. You can take the board down before you move out, spackle over the holes, and hope the landlord doesn't notice. I live in the US, and that seems to be the preferred option here. Everyone I know who has a hangboard has done this, and they seem to get away with it.
- Build a system board, and mount the hangboard to the top. You can build a freestanding structure like this, and mount a hangboard to the top. I don't have a design handy, but a friend of mine build a variation of this design where there was space to mount the hangboard on top. This would take up a large amount of floorspace, and be the most expensive option.
- Use another product:
- Metolius Rock Rings: You could suspend a pair of Metolius Rock Rings from a doorjam mounted pull-up bar, like in this this picture.
- Blank Slate board: here its another hangboard from a different company, but it comes attached to its own removable doorjamb mounted frame. I've never actually used one, just seen them advertised.
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