can it handle the weight?

[hurricane_redbone]

I am going to be moving to a new apartment soon. I have 2 choices. Both have theyre ups and downs. The one with the concrete floor is all the way up 3 flights of stairs while the other is on the ground floor. Heres the question will my 600 liter tank be supported by a wooden floor if it is across 3 (might be 4) wooden beams of 3 inches by 7 inches?

By the look and feel of it when i was jumping up and down on it the floor should hold but i just wanted your opinions.

 

[Hawkfish3.0]

I don't know what kind of building standards that you have in the Netherlands, but there's pretty much nothing here in the states that 's been built in the last 20 years, in the way of apartment buildings, that wouldn't hold a 600L tank.

Also, I don't get what you mean. If one choice is a third story apartment with concrete floors (would hold weight just fine), and the other choice is ground floor (wouldn't that one have concrete floor anyway?), what are you asking about wood floors for??

 

[hurricane_redbone]

the ground floor one has wood floors...

but thanks so much for not adressing anything I actually asked!

 

[pcfriedrich]

I don't know what kind of building standards that you have in the Netherlands, but there's pretty much nothing here in the states that 's been built in the last 20 years, in the way of apartment buildings, that wouldn't hold a 600L tank.

Also, I don't get what you mean. If one choice is a third story apartment with concrete floors (would hold weight just fine), and the other choice is ground floor (wouldn't that one have concrete floor anyway?), what are you asking about wood floors for??

basement.

 

[pcfriedrich]

the ground floor one has wood floors...

but thanks so much for not adressing anything I actually asked!

600L would be about 150 gallons. would weigh less than 2000, about the same as a football team. floor should be fine. I would check local building standards first, just to be sure. I know alot of the buildings over there are pretty old.

 

[hurricane_redbone]

aight thanks, but how do check the local building standards? at like the government building?

 

[leg89]

if you can put it next to a supporting wall, it'll be much stronger. but when your on the ground, you can generally not fall lower... my opinion.

i had to deal wiht the same issue last week, we finally took the basement. no more worry. but 3rd floor should do it if you are perpendicular to the beams and next to a supporting wall

 

[labiatus55]

theyll both hold, ive had a 365 on the second floor of a very old house which was not built to todays standards, it was also not located on a supporting wall

 

[zennzzo]

Take which ever suits your living needs best...Both will hold, IMO...

 

[amehel0]

both will hold its only 600 kilos. ive got a 170 on raised first floor not on a upporting wall. ive got mates with 180's on second floor.