Fish Tank Weight Floor Engineered Joists 24 Oc

63 x 147 mm 3 37 m 3 24 m 2 95.

Fish tank weight floor engineered joists 24 oc. I guarantee this. My two brothers and i weigh 800 lbs together and we jumped off the sofa onto my floor and it didn t break so i know that the floor can safely hold more than a 800 lb aquarium yes the dropped weight exerted a force greater than 800 pounds but it was a short term impact load. The details of the tank as follows. Underneath the tank stand is a carpet runner and then a piece of waterproof cement board usually used in bathrooms to help distribute the weight as much as possible.

For example a properly designed office floor can support 50 pounds per square foot. In the example the joists have a spacing of 16 inches and a span of 11 feet 2 inches. Therefore the 350l tank would weigh around the same as 4 of me. The tank is against one of the far sides of the house and the second floor is actually underground.

How much weight can a floor support. 5 foot aquarium tank total weight with water approx. Footprint 1 5m x 0 5m floor joists are engineered timber i beams measuring 245mm x 45mm see attached. The could lead to catastrophic seam glass failure.

Something you can do to that greatly improves the capacity of the floor is to orient the tank perpindicular to the floor joists if the tank is the usual rectangle. Can your office floor handle the addition of a large filing system. This distributes the weight over typically at least twice as many. The span table for a 30 psf live load 10psf dead load floor indicates a required fb value of 1 315 and a minimum e value of 1 800 000.

This is a common question asked by facility managers when contemplating a new file system or a heavy equipment addition. Start date nov 7 2013. We re looking to install a fish tank in our kitchen and i was looking for some advice to see the suitability of the floor to take the weight. From what i can make out there are two types of loads taken into account with floor joists the dead load which involves the weight of the materials that forms the make up of the floor being the timber floor boards plasterboards and skim.

I have my 90g on the second floor. You can put that on a second floor but it would be best if the wall studs are at least 2x6 at most 16 apart some builders do 24 on centre you can also talk to the joist company about what their open web joists can support but the wall structure can t take any old weight either. Tagged users none nov 7 2013.