I Have No Idea What to do!!!!!
- Thread starter The Happy Mud Skipper
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40lb per sq ft is rediculously low. That would mean the occupant(people) couldn't weigh more than 80lbs and most people weigh considerably more.
125 gallons x8lbs per gallon= 1000lbs of water alone. So you probably pretty close with you 1500 lb. total estimate.
1500lbs / 12sq. ft. of floor = 125lbs per sq ft.
Personally I'd leave it.
oops I see someone beat me to it.
125 gallons x8lbs per gallon= 1000lbs of water alone. So you probably pretty close with you 1500 lb. total estimate.
1500lbs / 12sq. ft. of floor = 125lbs per sq ft.
Personally I'd leave it.
oops I see someone beat me to it.
well thanks guys for all your input....I was living with three mechanical engineers (I'm an electrical engineer...not my expertise) when I set it up......they moved out yesterday. We did all the Calculations for the tank and I think we may be only 30 lbs or so Off....... Empty Tank Wieght = 206lbs, Water = 8.34 * 125 = 1042.5, Stand= 120lbs, Sand Wood Wet-dry filter and Lights = 150 lbs. So I'm looking at roughly 1518.5 lbs in an area of 18inches X 6 feet...........I walk lighty around it
NICE tank.
Your stand is spredding the load enough... if it makes you feel better put in a couple of small finishing nails, one in the baseboard - one in the floor so that the heads just touch side by side. Put these out of the way so they aren't bumped but you can still see them. Use this as a measurement to see if anything is moving over a period of time. Floors don't just fall thru like in the movies, there are warning signs.
Hey, you said your an electrical engineer! Set up some stress sensors to monitor things static and when you walk around it.
You could make an 'imminent danger' warning device.
Geosensors like for earthquakes.
Isn't that what that degree is for?
In the mean time discretely ask about insurance coverage. like gmail said you may not be covered.
Not a bad idea, but normally a floor wil easily hold your tank.
BS, your appartment was just badly build. The weight of that 220 was about 200 kg empty, every floor should be able to hold that kind of weight. Esp. when the weight is distributed over 8 joints. That would mean you can't have a party in your house because with the weight of two people jumping then the floors will collapse.
This is in now way normal for a building. When overloading a floor than no insurance will cover that, but with his 125 the will cover it because a normal floor will hold it with ease.
Who told you that it is 40 lbs/foot? It seems a little low.
I ain't giving garantees, but I think your floor should easily hold a 125 gallon.
A residential apartment complex is supposed to have at least a live load of 40lb/f in North Carolina in order to meat code now they cqn be higher than that but most are built with materials to just meet code......esspecially the cheap bastards that probably built my getto place!! haha.....anyway thanks for your input......i was scared but now I feel better.
some of the rock and decoration weight does displace water weight but your not far off. My 210 is probably 2400 pounds!
