Laundry closet???

[FlyTekk]

Hey guys i have a laundry closet just big enough to fit washer and dryer stacked one on top the other. The wife wants to move that close to boiler room and make a laundry room of there.

This leaves me with a happy and pre occupied wife and an empty closet with water lines, and drain on the floor!!!

Are thinking what im thinking?!? Tank upgrade!!!

It looks like i could do a cube like tank. Like 32long 34 wide. The floor has a aluminum pan that would hold water incase of overflow with a drain in the center.

Under that a friend said there should be cement? Does this mean i have a very strong floor there? Can i get a big tank? Or must a continue to keep it shallow? This tank would be on the 3rd floor with a bedroom underneath it.

 

[shauns220]

if it has a cement floor it will be a shallow mud floor , its purpose was for leveling out only
Stay with the cube 30x30x24 is a 93gal cube app $325 R/R new

 

[FlyTekk]

What is app?

As for 93g thats 1000lbs! I didnt know i could get that big! Thought i was stuck under 50g.

 

[thirty6]

I'm not sure I'd go with. 93g cube in that space. Without really knowing what's under that floor for support your taking a chance. I tend to be on safe side with stuff like this, I have learned if it can happen- it usually happens to me.... Like dropping Ai sols in the tank. The space sounds like it could be cool, just go smaller. Maybe. 45g cube

 

[FlyTekk]

So if i went say 32x32 to use the space but went shallow like 12" tall (53g) or 14" (62g).

I wouldnt use a sump to keep the weight lower. Maybe a all in one setup which would mean the main tank would have some empty space for less weight.

Anyone know if those laundry closets are built for extra weight by default?

 

[Tonyscoots84]

Be very very careful on how you approach this. Do not assume from what a friend said. On a third floor i doubt there would be cement if its a normal built house. Check before you make a big mistake

And remember if something goes horribly wrong and water overflows that water is damaging your 2 lower floors Do you know how much that would cost you to fix the water damage

 

[FlyTekk]

As mentioned abover there is a large drain in the floor below the washer in this closet. The washer is standing in a metal pan where 4 inches of water could collect which it wont as it would drain.

 

[FlyTekk]

Id literally be able to syphon water out of tank into drain in floor when doing water changes.

 

[thirty6]

^^^ that part is nice feature, that aside I would be worried about weight I the system. If that could simply be a pan to funnel water into the drain and serve no other purpose but to collect water. May not be solid piece, but more of a shell witha drain attached. Post picture to give a better idea. My concern would be the weight on third floor. You would also have to carry the tank up 3 sets of stairs( sep issue) and if it's small enough wouldn't matter I guess

 

[lnevo]

I think the question that hasn't been asked is if the old laundry room is by a load bearing wall. If it is there should be a good amount of support. That cement is just there as a leveler and to protect the substrate from moisture. I doubt its got any significant thickness.

 

[FlyTekk]

I will snap pic soon. Also i dont know how to determine load bearing walls but i can tell u that it sits over a bed room and the wall behind it is a wall that runs down a stair case to exit the house.

So if i were to punch through the wall behind the washer/fish tank... My fist would end up below a stair

 

[FlyTekk]

My fist would end up below a stair case headed upstairs and floating a few feet above a staircase headed downstairs.

 

[FlyTekk]

Then after the stair case is the wall that divides this house from the next.

 

[lnevo]

Doesn't sound like load bearing...outside wall or internal beam wall would be more obvious.

 

[STHILL]

I had a 93 cube 15 gal fuge 30 gal sump on my 2nd floor ..interior non load bearing wall without any issies

 

[evolution21]

I had a 93 cube 15 gal fuge 30 gal sump on my 2nd floor ..interior non load bearing wall without any issies

110 long interior wall with 150lbs love rock, 200 lbs of sand and a 40g sump on a 4th floor walk up....maybe I just got lucky

 

[FlyTekk]

Lmao!

 

[FlyTekk]

Guys i just looked up specs for washer and dryer. Washer is 250lbs dry. Dryer is 130lbs empty. Add water and wet clothes.... add to that the vibration and tumbling....

Im assuming i have a good 500-600lbs of total filled tank weight to play with here.

 

[thirty6]

^^^ good thinking, what size tank you thinking? 60 cube might be nice and be rt at that weight range

 

[FlyTekk]

Instructions say washer is 400lbs with water and load. Jeez.

Im thinking of a 31x36x12 where the 31" is the front glass. the back 5" will be aio compartment. so tank will look like a 31x31. no sump no plumbing. info was sent to miracles this morning. Looking to see what the price will be.