large tank on main floor ? anyone help

[walloutlet]

Just keep in mind that a floor in one person's house is not the same floor in your house. If you really want to be sure, find a contractor or engineering to sign off on it. Hopefully, if something "did" happen you would have some documents to fall back on.

Just a suggestion.

[mark]

would you be worried if you had 6 people standing together in your house lined up say for a photo?

[Bob]

check with your insurance....they might not pay if anything happens

[christyf5]

Originally Posted by mark

would you be worried if you had 6 people standing together in your house lined up say for a photo?

Or a bathtub for that matter. Thats how it was explained to me

[walloutlet]

Originally Posted by christyf5

Or a bathtub for that matter. Thats how it was explained to me

But a bathtub is supposed to be re-enforced with an extra or two 2x10 joists under the floor. The same with a toilet or anything else heavy and stationary in a house.

[mark]

Originally Posted by walloutlet

But a bathtub is supposed to be re-enforced with an extra or two 2x10 joists under the floor. The same with a toilet or anything else heavy and stationary in a house.

floor joist spacing is the same under my tub as every where else.

Originally Posted by mark

floor joist spacing is the same under my tub as every where else.

yup they are but they should also be cross braced better to transfer more of the weight to the neighboring joists.

Bill

[ILIKECOUGARS]

I have 150g (4' x 2'6") with a 50g sump so about 180g total water volume, set up on a outside wall and perpendicular to the floor joists (2 x 10) @ 16" centers with no issues at all.

[Delphinus]

I know my floor creaks, snaps, and groans for some time after someone's had a bath. The house is new and I'm not worried about it but it goes to show that the forces involved are having an effect.

Like I said earlier though my guess is that it's OK. But for the love of goodness don't listen to ME because I tend to learn everything the hard way through the school of hard knocks. I always heard the addage that 75 gallons was a pretty good threshold for a tank on an upper floor. Not sure what it was based on. But the premiss was that 75g and under was never an issue, anything above 75g should have a little forethought put into it (ie., not necessarily "don't do it" but at the same time, do consider the variables). Having said that, I've never heard of a tank causing a floor to catastrophically fail and contents of said floor relocated to the basement in a free fall sort of way. More likely though water spilling can drip through and cause different sorts of problems (mold in carpet underlay or in walls, or hardwood swelling, etc.).

Thank you so much to all of you for all your help I didn't expect so many to answer my little question so again I really appreciate all your help. I will let you all know with pictures if all turns out well. Right now I just have a 33gal LR and Fish tank its pretty but I want my big tank set up in salt

Jenn