A typical floor truss is designed to support 40 psf live load and an
additional 10 psf dead load. A dead load is considered to be a load that is
present all the time while a live load is just the opposite. Typically the
only dead loads you have are the building materials themselves, lumber,
plywood ,carpet, tile, etc and live loads are considered everything else.
Furniture, including water beds and aquariums, are considered a live load.
So speaking from a pure technical standpoint if your system weighs more than
40 psf you are overstressing the floor. However from a practical standpoint
I wouldn't worry about it till it surpassed 50-60 psf as long as the floor
trusses, or joists were installed properly to specifications. You can get
additional carrying capacity by adding some strongbacks to further enable
load sharing across additional trusses or joists.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Derek Walter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 1:11 PM
Subject: Re: Klingerman Virus
> Well a water bed is spread out over at least a 4 x 6 or 6 x 6 area, a tank
> is only in a 11/2 x 6 or 2 x 4 area, or similar. Puts alot more lbs per
> square foot in a small area.
> Derek
> See my reef at Http://www.geocities.com/reefsalot/
> Under HEAVY construction!
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 8:41 AM
> Subject: RE: Klingerman Virus
>
>
> > Reinforcing you floor, do you really think thats necessary. If you run
> your
> > tank perpindicular to your floor joists I doubt you need such a thing.
I
> > mean think about it, people put in water beds without thinking twice and
> they
> > wiegh as much as a car.
> >
> > Steve
> > ---------- Original Text ----------
> >
> > From: "David & Karen Whooley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 1/11/01 12:21 AM:
> >
> > I'm still working on getting Karen to let me upgrade to a 120 or bigger.
> > She seems to get nervous when I talk about reinforcing the floor. Go
> > figure.
> >
> > Actually, I've let my tank just "evolve" for the last few months. I
have
> > had all kinds of creatures emerging from the live rock. I'm leery of
> adding
> > anything. I don't want to disturb the balance it's found.
> >
> > david
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 10:17 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Klingerman Virus
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 1/11/01 12:08:23 AM Central Standard Time,
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> >
> > << And a damn fine source he is! Just happens to be my brother!
> >
> > david >>
> > And aren't you so proud???? LOL Hey....got that 1100 Gal. set up yet?
> We
> > are working on it!
> > Sherri
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