i rent at a house that was built in the seventies. I occupy the sencond and third floors. My ? is: will the floors hold the weight of a 90gal tank? There is a fire place that runs threw the center of all three floors. Should I place it behind it? There is really no slab to place the tank on. All the floors in my place are above rooms downstairs. Does anyone have any ideas about where to put this thing? I'm planning on having 90gal reef with 30 gal sump. Plus the stand weighs about 150lbs.
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can the floor hold my tank??
- Thread starter Lucent28
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Coming from a carpenter, I'd say....Hmmmmm? :lol:
No, seriously your 90 will end up weighing about a half a ton. It should hold just fine if you place it near an exterior wall with the weight distributed across several floor joists. Most hard woods floors are ran in the opposite direction if you have it or you can pull the corner of the carpet to find the nail pattern of the subfloor. I once had a 55 and a 70 in a third floor apartment within eight feet from each other with no problems.
No, seriously your 90 will end up weighing about a half a ton. It should hold just fine if you place it near an exterior wall with the weight distributed across several floor joists. Most hard woods floors are ran in the opposite direction if you have it or you can pull the corner of the carpet to find the nail pattern of the subfloor. I once had a 55 and a 70 in a third floor apartment within eight feet from each other with no problems.
I also have a wooden floor what i have done is....fill the tank half them bolt the stand to the wall in 4 places. This makes the stand a "shelf" for the tank and takes a load of weight off the floor and moves it to the wall. By splitting the weight you should have no probs. Thats if you can bolt it to the wall.
Hope that helps
Jon
Hope that helps
Jon
I dont understand that theory at all? The weight is still to the floor.
It is just braced from falling forward. Your floor wont bow if you can distribute the wieght across the joists.
I would just go down stairs in the basement and see which way the joists are running, and how thick they are. Commonly they run left to right ( or right to left depending on how you look at it LOL!) when you face the back or front of your house. You can always brace the floor beneath it by applying jacks to the studs the tank rests on or nail two2x4's together cut them so they are 1/8th" long, smack'em in place with a hammer, use anchor bolts and heavy right angel brackets to brace where it meets the floor, and your set. ( it is NOT any where near as complicated as it sounds.)
But since your house was built in the 70's it has good old treated 4x6's or 4x12's for joists I bet. I think you will be alright as long as you rest it over the joists so that at least 3 joist are some what centered under the stand.
you might be lucky and have sandwiched plywood joists ( if it was renovated) but I doubt it. If you do you could put a 265g on those suckers with no problems what so ever. plywood joists are SUPER strong.
It is just braced from falling forward. Your floor wont bow if you can distribute the wieght across the joists.
I would just go down stairs in the basement and see which way the joists are running, and how thick they are. Commonly they run left to right ( or right to left depending on how you look at it LOL!) when you face the back or front of your house. You can always brace the floor beneath it by applying jacks to the studs the tank rests on or nail two2x4's together cut them so they are 1/8th" long, smack'em in place with a hammer, use anchor bolts and heavy right angel brackets to brace where it meets the floor, and your set. ( it is NOT any where near as complicated as it sounds.)
But since your house was built in the 70's it has good old treated 4x6's or 4x12's for joists I bet. I think you will be alright as long as you rest it over the joists so that at least 3 joist are some what centered under the stand.
you might be lucky and have sandwiched plywood joists ( if it was renovated) but I doubt it. If you do you could put a 265g on those suckers with no problems what so ever. plywood joists are SUPER strong.
I live in a small 3 room apt. on the top floor. The building was constructed in the 50's. I have in the same room :
90 gal FW + over 50lbs of slate rock + 80lbs of substrate
55gal SW - DSB (3½-4") + 70lbs LR + 25gal sump
35gal FW
10gal
The room is 16 x 10 and doesn't seem to want to "move" down. :wink:
90 gal FW + over 50lbs of slate rock + 80lbs of substrate
55gal SW - DSB (3½-4") + 70lbs LR + 25gal sump
35gal FW
10gal
The room is 16 x 10 and doesn't seem to want to "move" down. :wink:
bigblue":1dqkbxwi said:Maybe we should do a test with a sheet of ply wood first then put the water bed on top of it , invite Lutra's friends 15 friends and put them on the bed. If this holds then no problem for the tank. Hey and after the test who knowes......15 ppl one bed.....
We would need pictures of the 15 friends...please submit :twisted:
FragMaster":21w976to said:Yup. But unless they are specified to be all female I am sticking with EWWWW!!! That is always a safe answer. LOL!
lol...as long as the women outnumber the men, I am fine with it...hehe...ok, we better discontinue this train of thought outside the Sump...I can hear footsteps....
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