Can a raised fireplace hold a tank?

[jcardona1]

Yeah it's fairly level, aside from the minor imperfections on the brick surface...

 

[Piscine]

If you shim the outer edges of a single piece of plywood, you will end up with a tank that is only supported on the left and right edges by a bowed piece of plywood....If it were me, I'd feel safer just putting it on the floor. The carpet and padding will make a nice flat surface for it to sit on. Just make sure it is not in a high traffic area.

 

[aaronb]

I'd say just the styrofoam would work fine then.

 

[spirofucci]

Just to be sure, get a long 1/4" or smaller masonary drill bit and drill down to see if you hit concrete past the bricks. Unless you build it yourself you never really know.

Then get a bearskin rug and some brandy and your gal!

 

[LOPAKA]

^^^ good idea, wanna make sure they didn't do it cheaply and frame it will plywood and build on that. If it seems pretty sound if you jump on it, I would say they used concrete.

 

[nfored]

one thing on styro foam get the soft kind. the pink stuff used for insualation doesn't compress so it wouldnt fill the voids in the brick. I damaged the mess out of my tank making that assumption.

 

[aclockworkorange]

I would just go for it, personally.

 

[valderi123]

I cant see why it wouldn't work.

 

[leather]

That isn't a lot of weight, it won't be a problem. It can't be hollow without having support inside, the bricks couldn't have been layed up. If its on a slab it would have been more work to make it hollow than to just lay up the whole area with block/brick so its not going anywhere.