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Old 10-16-2008, 05:57 PM
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Originally Posted by toxic111 View Post
FYI, 90% of residential floors are designed to handle 40lbs/ft2 live load, and about 15lbs/ft2 dead load.

It is fairly easy to work out what your weight of a tank/water/equipment etc uses, divide that by the area of the tank, and that will tell you if you are good.
Where are you getting this from? Just curious because I had an engineer come by our last place and the numbers were WAY different. And he was being conservative.
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