Fish Tanks In Flats...

[hensonc4098]

I spoke to said surveyor guy last night and he said he wouldn't think twice about putting about 300kg on a square metre of floor. He said floors are all rated to carry a cr@pload of weight and your average bookcase/wardrobe/whatever is gonna be pretty heavy too. Especially if it's next to one of the structural walls where the beams are gonna be going into. Now just to figure out what way the joists actually go...

Edit: Got carried away and became a typo fiend.

 

[fluttermoth]

Joists normally run the opposite way to the floorboards, if that's any help? You should be able to see where the floorboards are nailed to the joists, if you have a look under the carpet

 

[hensonc4098]

I have laminate flooring in most of the house, tiles in the bathrooms and carpet in the bedrooms, but the carpet's just new so can't lift it to see. I'll maybe just lift some of the laminate in the cupboard for a sneaky peek.

 

[Bugdozer]

To give you an idea of weights involved:
1 litre of water = 1 kg. An average man weighs about 70-75 kg.Floors can support that weight just on the surface area of our feet. I'm sure you'd be happy to have three people come and stand in a room, so think of that as a weight of 200kg approx. Of couse as well as the water you have to allow for weight of tank itself and the stand. To be honest, if any room cannot support the weight of a fishtank up to about 200 kg (especially spread across the joists as Nobody Of The Goat says) then it isn't safe for human habitation anyway. So a 100 litre tank should be able to be put in pretty much any room.

My bird almost weighs that lol most of my mates are all 14 / 15 /16 stone which is about 90 - 100kg

I'm 95 kilo an about 15 stone ish

You live in Carlisle

 

[psp83]

emptied the tank and put it under the stand,

Ehh??!!??

I put the ply between carpet & stand, wasn't going to lift the stand & tank full of water

 

[Peter C]

To give you an idea of weights involved:
1 litre of water = 1 kg. An average man weighs about 70-75 kg.Floors can support that weight just on the surface area of our feet. I'm sure you'd be happy to have three people come and stand in a room, so think of that as a weight of 200kg approx. Of couse as well as the water you have to allow for weight of tank itself and the stand. To be honest, if any room cannot support the weight of a fishtank up to about 200 kg (especially spread across the joists as Nobody Of The Goat says) then it isn't safe for human habitation anyway. So a 100 litre tank should be able to be put in pretty much any room.

My bird almost weighs that lol most of my mates are all 14 / 15 /16 stone which is about 90 - 100kg

I'm 95 kilo an about 15 stone ish

You live in Carlisle

Yeah a recent night out in Glasgow was quite surprising

The lack of stocky blokes was strange. England is full of people obsessed with steroids and gyms, Scotland just seemed to be full of people that have never seen weights in their life ha

 

[hensonc4098]

You live in Carlisle

Hahahahahaa Sorry. That amused me

Seems to be in the genes or something up here though. We're all pretty fond of our deep fried mars bars and the likes, but it tends to be the lassies that are the stocky ones if anything...