Do You Think This Would Hold 60-80 Litres?

[pablothebetta]

http/direct.asda.com/Scandinavia-Pine-Chest-of-Drawers---4-Drawer/001798756,default,pd.html

Do you think this might hold 60-80L of water? I'm looking for a fairly cheap piece of furtniture to potentially put one or two tanks on, could this do the job? Any other ideas?

Thanks

 

[ZoddyZod]

email ASDA and ask them how much weight it is designed to take.

 

[tribalbrit]

My daughter has something similar with a 120 lt tank on it, no problem. If you are worried though fix an added piece of plywood to the back panel.

 

[pablothebetta]

email ASDA and ask them how much weight it is designed to take.

Might just do that

 

[rjkitz]

be aware the figure ASDA will give you (if they have it) will be 75% lower than the MAX the furniture wich actualy hold

 

[pablothebetta]

Been a few days but not had a reply - hopefully I'll get one by the end of the week or so.

 

[tomtomtom1230]

Don't forget to take into account decor, gravel and the tank it's self. At 20 deg. C, 1 litre of water will weigh approx 1kg. The colder the water is, the more dense it will become and therefore heavier - the opposite applies with warming water.

A more tropical related temperature to weight ratio... 1 litre of water will weigh 997.08 grams (9.778 newtons) at 25 deg. Celsius (77 deg. F)

 

[Tizer]

yeah watch out for that massive difference there....

 

[ZoddyZod]

be aware the figure ASDA will give you (if they have it) will be 75% lower than the MAX the furniture wich actualy hold

they will certainly downplay the weight it can take (otherwise they open themselves up to potential insurance claims should it fail) but the 75% figure seems very excessive to me. Is this any industry or perhaps company guideline that you are aware of?

 

[Tizer]

its doubtful they will give you a figure at all, i'd be shocked if they could to be honest.

I'd get a piece of chip board, cut it to the same size as the top, get a thin sheet of poly and just bosh the tank on it. I'd probably put a board on the back of the unit as well to give it more strength and stop it wobbling.

 

[ian_m]

If its anything like the ASDA furniture I used to have in my sons room, it will even have difficulty supporting the ornaments in the ASDA picture !!!!

The drawer runners broke, basically strips of plastic stapled to side walls, appeared to involve the drawers as structural support members !!! and as appeared to be made of wood softer than balsa wood suffered from the fixings pulling themselves through the wood inducing a wobble. Fine as cheap furniture, would I risks a tank...no way.

 

[tomtomtom1230]

yeah watch out for that massive difference there....

I sense a smidge of sarcasm! I'd rather have accurate data, even if there's only 3 grams in it.

 

[Tizer]

yeah watch out for that massive difference there....

I sense a smidge of sarcasm! I'd rather have accurate data, even if there's only 3 grams in it.

I call it anal :>

 

[tomtomtom1230]

yeah watch out for that massive difference there....

I sense a smidge of sarcasm! I'd rather have accurate data, even if there's only 3 grams in it.

I call it anal :>

I call it caring whether or not my tank ends up on the floor in pieces If I was gonna be anal about something, I'd rather it be something like this than have a catastrophe down the line somewhere because the table was only supposed to hold something up to 100kg and what I've got weighs 110kg. Every gram makes a big difference when you're talking about stuff like (ie: maximum weight give) that and I thought it would just be a useless piece of information that everyone likes to know

 

[OldMan47]

Typical safe loads of 25% to even as low as 10% are used in almost anything that is important. Even though you may feel that something can carry 4 times its rating, and in theory it might, that is no reason to use that number as your loading. Stay with the 25% safe load that the manufacturer uses. That allows for minor, often unseen variations in manufacture or materials and also allows for changes over time. Things do degrade with age, especially when they are under a constant load.