Help Please!

[Kieron1]

Hello

I have recently moved into a new house and have been looking forward to setting my new tank & cabinet up in my room. I have been told I can't put it in my room because of the weight.
I couldn't tell you the weight of the tank or volume of water it holds but the length is 52"x12"x12". It is a large tank with a steel frame and is on a large heavy cabinet. My floor is wooden with only a couple of wooden supports running the length of the room.
Is there any way of working around this? Please help, I'll be grateful of any advice!!!

Regards

 

[@ombomb]

I think that's 117 litres, so at most the tank would end up weighing 140KG, which is only the equivalent of two adults standing close together, but with the weight of the tank more evenly spread. Try explaining it that way and see if they go with it. (assming it's your parents who have said you can't have it)

 

[modernhamlet]

Hello

I have recently moved into a new house and have been looking forward to setting my new tank & cabinet up in my room. I have been told I can't put it in my room because of the weight.
I couldn't tell you the weight of the tank or volume of water it holds but the length is 52"x12"x12". It is a large tank with a steel frame and is on a large heavy cabinet. My floor is wooden with only a couple of wooden supports running the length of the room.
Is there any way of working around this? Please help, I'll be grateful of any advice!!!

Regards

If your measurements are accurate, that's only 32.4 US gallons, or 27 UK gallons. Even with a heavy stand, the total weight should only be in the 300-400 lbs. range. If the floor of your room can't hold that much, you shouldn't sleep there.

 

[Kieron1]

Well I was all up for putting it in my room, I have had it all planned out and have been looking forward to it for the last few months until some joiner or something came round and started saying "it will fall through" and "I've only seen "4 ft in upstairs rooms" He reckons there are only two wooden jolsts in my room which would "no way" hold the weight. I will be absolutley gutted if I can't and I don't wanna spend a load of money on a tank thats gonna be in the front room. Do you have any more ammo for my arguement?

Cheers!

 

[Durbkat]

Isn't the way you find out how much a tank weighs is like ten pounds for every gallon? If it is then my long 20g must weigh at least 200 plus the 10g next to it that at least weighs 100 pounds. Then my full size bed at least weighs a 100 pounds without me on it and I live on the second floor of an apartment!

 

[modernhamlet]

Well I was all up for putting it in my room, I have had it all planned out and have been looking forward to it for the last few months until some joiner or something came round and started saying "it will fall through" and "I've only seen "4 ft in upstairs rooms" He reckons there are only two wooden jolsts in my room which would "no way" hold the weight. I will be absolutley gutted if I can't and I don't wanna spend a load of money on a tank thats gonna be in the front room. Do you have any more ammo for my arguement?

Cheers!

What else do you need? "I've only seen "4 ft in upstairs rooms"? This person was talking out their... other end.

So a 48"x18"x24" 900lb 90gallon tank is ok, but a 52"x12"x12" 350lb 33gallon tank isn't?

Redo your measurements just to be sure. Even a couple of inches of height or width will make a LARGE different on a 52" tank, so you have to be sure. But if your measurements are accurate (or even close frankly), then that person is full of it.

If that tank "will fall through", so would a bed with two people on it...

 

[rdd1952]

Redo your measurements just to be sure. Even a couple of inches of height or width will make a LARGE different on a 52" tank, so you have to be sure.

Very true. Every inch in height or depth would be 22.25 lb additional weight. Althings considered though, the footprint of the tank is 624" (52x12) so the base wold be bigger than that. Even if the tank, stand, water, gravel, etc weighed 624 lb, that's only 1 pound per square inch. Not much weight at all.