Converting A Bedroom Into A Fish Room?

[slakey]

Try to find where your joists are

And have got a garden shed?

Also would help if we knew how much money you can spend on this to make it work?

Cos there's loads of other solutions, i.e build a type of conservatory, just with not as many windows, convert the garage, build a brick shed etc

Loads of opportunities if you have the money.

 

[Miss Wiggle]

ok, here goes nothing, i would not listen to anything you have been told thus far. I work for a large engineering company, my other half's a builder. I know a fair bit about construction.

The simple fact of the matter is every house is different and is built to take different loads, also you have to bear in mind the condition, no one off this forum has inspected your house to know what condition beams etc are in. Plain and simple if you want to do it, get a qualified structural engineer to inspect your house first and advise you on what to do. Only when someone with appropriate competency has considered your individual circumstances can you get any meaningful advice.

Two points that have been raised - yes bath's do weigh a lot, but bathroom's are built with extra re-inforcement to take the weight, if you put a bath into your bedroom and left it full of water all the time there's a good chance it'd go through the roof.

secondly, regarding the 15 people analogy, yes while having 15 people stood in your house would obviously not bring it down, the temporary load nad the permanent load are very different and affect a building differently. If you had 15 people standing in the same spot on a permanenet basis then the effect could be very different and potentially dangerous.

If you want to do it you need to consult an expert.

 

[T1KARMANN]

you will be shocked to know the older the house the better as new build houses have much smaller joists

i live in a victorian house and i have a 84x32x30 tank on my 1st floor boads with no problems and the tank has been upgrade from a 6x2x2 that was in the same spot for over 12yrs

if you put the tanks up against a outside concret wall then you should be ok

if you are that worried about weight get acylic tanks they are much lighter than glass as every bit of weight saved is good

what you have to think is a 5x2x2 is no more weight than a bath filled with water which any floor boads will hold by law

 

[Miss Wiggle]

yeah new builds are rubbish, corners are cut all over the place to save money. I would never buy a new build house tbh.

 

[Bloo]

Well this thread is well old so sure not relevant to OP anymore.

However if it is: I would ignore anything anyone said (apart from Miss Wiggle) and speak to a structural engineer.

You can't compare apples to zebras (we're not even talking comparing apples to pears).

 

[Miss Wiggle]

lol, didn't spot the age of the thread. thanks Bloo.

 

[Ludwig Venter]

Did it once some time ago & only problem experienced was that a black mouldy type film developed on the ceiling boards from the evaporating water.... I repainted with a high gloss enamel paint and lived happily ever after

 

[dpcamp]

what are we talking about when we say "large tank"?? I was thinking about getting a 60 gal for my upstairs room. now i'm all paranoid!

 

[Hawkins]

I wouldn't think its a problem for a modernish house at all.

Its the modern houses that arent built properly lol

 

[Eigdoog]

I would see if there is any RSJ's under the floor that would hold the water but then i would just reallt thick wood (4*2) under the floor. also in my work i would use oak floorboards as they should last for years. Try not to go cheap as you get for what you pay.

Also use some new 4*2 in the wall to make those wall units as they can hold alot. Better be safe than sorry

Im not a full carpenter but im learning

I dont think it would be worth the trobble and then maybe one day IF the floor bored broke but if you are up for it then i say go for it!

Thanks Eigdoog