Think my floor will collapse?
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Sorry guys....I don't want any liability from someone with a different situation who may happen upon this thread and misinterpret information and cause damage to their home. Even if there was no liability issue, I would still not wish home damage on anyone.. This is a sensitive subject and the advice the OP would receive would not be applicable to anyone else's problems as all home structures are designed differently...period. I offered to take it to PMs for this reason. The span of the joists matters, the design of the load bearing walls that support those joists matters, and the age and type of wood used in the construction matters, just to name a few. There is no way to give the OP the correct info if he will not define the variables needed to make an accurate estimate of the live load capacity of his floor.
I hope everyone can understand the amount of liability involved and will act accordingly. I apologize for reacting the way I did to the advice given by some of the other posters.
I hope everyone can understand the amount of liability involved and will act accordingly. I apologize for reacting the way I did to the advice given by some of the other posters.
I gave the span of the joists. I dont really know how the central load bearing wall is constructed. I said the house was built in the 70's, i believe mid 70's. The type of wood used for the joists, while i am not 100% positive, appears to be some type of soft wood, probably fir, it doesnt appear to be pine but i suppose its a possibility.
my 265 and 75 gallon sump are on my first floor with a basement below. I have 2x8 floor joists and no problems yet!
I thought I mentioned this, but most of the time floors don't just collapse from overloading. It will almost always sag and creak loudly long before it breaks. Anyone with common sense would move it or REmove it if they saw and heard the signs that the floor is going to fail. Wood is a fibrous material and the weakest fibers will break first, causing very loud noises and sagging.
That doesn't mean that just because you don't hear noise and see sagging that the floor won't fail. It does happen.
That doesn't mean that just because you don't hear noise and see sagging that the floor won't fail. It does happen.
My cousin used to work for a company that took home insurance jobs. Fire damage, flood damage, etc. One job they had a guy had a 700 gallon tank that fell through the floor while he was on vacation. He came home to a massive hole in his floor, tons of dead fish and thousands of dollars worth of damage. I wasn't there, and never saw it, but I saw the pictures of it. Lucky for him, his insurance covered it.
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