Drywall ceiling

[Anonymous No.1769781]

I want to do bodyweight exercises at home. All my ceilings and walls are made out of thin drywall. All the doors are in the corner of the room. My father won't allow me to buy a pull up bar to use in my door way because he thinks I will rip out the wall and damage the house irreparably, and honestly I think he's right.

So I thought about using the ceiling instead. There's probably a bunch of wood beams going over the drywall that I cannot see right? So if I were to somehow find where they were and which direction they were running in, I could drill in a pull up bar or gym rings. If I get some sort of metal support that is screwed in over several of these hidden wooden beams, then surely it couldn't fail, right?

My father is also heavily against the idea, saying it would cause the beams to warp and bend. I don't know enough about construction and materials to really say if he is wrong or not. It seems most people are able to install their pull up bars just fine, but then again they probably have concrete or brick instead of thin drywall.

How do I know if I can install a pull up bar / gym rings in my ceiling safely? How would I go about doing it?

[Anonymous No.1769784]

if you spread the weight across several joists it's probably fine, but i'm no constructioner

[Anonymous No.1769800]

>>1769784
Just hang a towel over a branch in your yard.

[Anonymous No.1769807]

>>1769781
how much do you weigh

[Anonymous No.1769822]

you could just find the rafters and screw that shit to it. but wood is bends easily and nothing you do is going to stop you from getting cracks in the drywall.

[Anonymous No.1769823]

>>1769781
>buy like $25 worth of steel
>weld/bolt it together
>???
>pull up bar

[Anonymous No.1769835]

>>1769781
either pic related or door frame you shouldn't mess with ceiling without knowing what exactly is behind the drywall

[Anonymous No.1769838]

>>1769807
160 Ibs

[Anonymous No.1769844]

>>1769823
Yeah but if I'm putting it over or under the drywall ceiling, my weight is just gonna bring the entire ceiling down and now there is a gaping hole into my attic.

[Anonymous No.1770090]

>>1769844
I meant making a freestanding one, not connecting it to the ceiling.

[Anonymous No.1770107]

>>1769844
Are you going to attach it to the joists or just... the drywall? If you can stand on the joists in your attic, then you can hang from them just the same.

[Anonymous No.1770117]

>>1769781
I don't know what floor is this, I assume from the lighting it's a basement, you are at risk drilling into live wires, unless you know where do they go. Calculate this into the price upon a failure.
Beams should support the force you will be putting in with your exercises. If it's like a last floor and over you is a roof, you will cause movement, heavy one. Those beams are never connected together to support movement to the sides, they hold roof, not something swinging on em. Those beams are never beefy as floor beams.
Back to the point - Beam > drywall carcass with a gap >> dry wall. Think about how you will compensate the gap. I have no idea how people put up their drywalls in other countries, but here every dry wall is on metal carcass, and there is always gaps.
I say you buy three bars, weld them into U, and then cement into the ground in the backyard. Father is happy, no risk.

[Anonymous No.1770119]

>>1769781
I don't know how americans build their houses, but there must be at least some wooden beams you can screw into

[Anonymous No.1770276]

>>1769781
your dad sounds like a lazy retard, the rafters will absolutely hold your weight with no problems. but unfortunately your retard dad is the owner of the home so it's best not to fuck with his house in ways he does not approve of.

[Anonymous No.1770322]

>>1769781
I've been using a doorframe-mounted pull-up bar for at least 10 years. The same one, in fact, and I've used it in at least 4 apartments and 2 homes. It's not going to damage anything, the worst thing it does is leave marks on the doorframe. You can just paint over those.

[Anonymous No.1770323]

>>1770322
Seconded

[Anonymous No.1770324]

>>1769781
If you can get in your roof space it’s easy, otherwise it too much work to be worthwhile.

If you can get in roof you should run a metal bar or fence post across four joists and then attach it to that.

[Anonymous No.1770524]

>>1769781
Hey fuckwhit, you life in your dad's house. You want to do this shit, either get your dad on board or get your own house.

[Anonymous No.1770967]

>>1769781
anon, buy this https://www.homedepot.com/p/C-H-Hanson-Magnetic-Stud-Finder-03040/202563186?mtc=Shopping-B-F_D25T-G-D25T-25_1_HAND_TOOLS-Multi-NA-Feed-PLA-NA-NA-HandTools_PLA&cm_mmc=Shopping-B-F_D25T-G-D25T-25_1_HAND_TOOLS-Multi-NA-Feed-PLA-NA-NA-HandTools_PLA-71700000034127224-58700003933021546-92700049573927173&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI0pqRwuTh5wIViJyzCh04iQdMEAQYAyABEgKHKvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

its a stud finder, and works by locating the screws used to attach the drywall to the ceiling joists. there will be some rows of one screw, and some rows of two screws,where two boards attach to one beam. you'll be able to figure out where they are and what direction they run.

i dont know how much you weigh, but one large anchor into a 2x6 joist could easily hold your weight. distribute it over two and they likely wont even deflect at all.

[Anonymous No.1771471]

>>1770524
this

[Anonymous No.1771618]

How much room do you have? Can you build a free standing frame our of 2x4s?

[Anonymous No.1773402]

>>1770524
This

[Anonymous No.1773575]

>>1770322
> the worst thing it does is leave marks on the doorframe

You forgot leaves dents on your door frame and cracks the drywall above the door frame on the side where the bar hangs from

[Anonymous No.1773601]

Architect here, you burgers with your cardboard houses make me laugh

[Anonymous No.1773702]

>>1770967
That's not how stud finders work, but you stumbled onto the correct conclusion. Thing is depending on OP's ceiling it might support his weight no problem if he drills into the rafters/floor joists, but might flex side to side enough to crack the drywall.

[Anonymous No.1773714]

>>1773575
That never happened to me, but I'm sure it could depending on the bar and stuff. I didn't mean to unequivocally say there's no risk, just that in my anecdotal experience I never had problems :^)

[Anonymous No.1773728]

>>1769781
It would be fine, the rafters can support way more than that.

[Anonymous No.1773729]

>>1773728
btw thin drywall makes it easy, just get a nail and start poking it through the drywall ceiling at random points. If it pokes right through you know it's no good, but if it hits wood resistance behind it you know you're at the stud. Small holes in drywall are easy as shit to patch with some spackle and a knife, it takes like 10 minutes, 9 and a half of which is drying time so you can make as many as you want.