Any body know much about concrete floors and weight loads?

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Hart1985

Hart1985

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I have a new tank filled its going to be about a tonne. I live in a maisonette the floor is a concrete slab 6-7" thick. The tank is sat with a supporting wall to the back and right it also has a chimney breast running up past it's left. The dimensions are 80"x24. I think the floor is strong enough but mrs wants second opinion. As there is someone living below it. Any thought anybody.


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Concrete is pretty amazing. I had some worries too about my own 300 gallon tank and its gear putting our slab foundation off balance (it's on one edge), but several folks have checked it out and said compared to the weight of the house (upwards of 60 tons?) 1 ton isn't going to make that much difference. Granted, I don't have anyone living UNDER me, but building code in England will hopefully require multi-floor buildings to use steel reinforced concrete.

So sorry, lady, you can't use that as an excuse to deny your boo his big ol' tank. Better luck next time. ;)
 
I spoke with the structural engineer who deals with the property I live in he says domestic suspended floors in uk are designed to take a weight load of 1.25 kilo newtons per square meter the tank full is 10!!! Nothing else for it but to turn it into a brackish water mangrove swamp tank archer fish here we come. Never kept brackish water fish


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