Tanking Falling Though Flour And Co2 Problem

[coldcazzie]

if it were me, i would take the carpet up, go down a DIY center, pickup enough 18mm chip board to do the whole room then lay it on top of the existing flooring. but i gots mad skills.

That's not a bad idea... combine that with having a smaller tank... perhaps sell up and then buy one in the region of 90-120L.

 

[england]

You have only just noticed these creeking noises of late? do you have central heating?

 

[nick1200]

Yer i have central heating LOL.
The tank has been fine for around a year. Even had the housing people come out for other problems ( with the loft ) and they even looked at the tank and said it was nice . Never said anything about going though or that we can't have it on a up stairs flat.
I have noticed the nabours under us there doors keep slamming and i have asked them if they are doing it them selfs or maybe the doors have dropped in there flat. But they have said there only closing the doors normaly. And have read in this topic some one said that the doors would drop be for it goes though ?
I have asked friends and family which have said the flour boards would break but the tank will not go though because its on the beams.
But then again my family don't build houses for a living.

I am real down about getting rid of it. But have been offered a 33L wall one which fits on the wall for my 350 L tank. They told me id only be able to get neon's in the tank the wall one there offering me. Its still a 4ft wall one. But only 33L.

Donno why it has been ok for a year. And there was gravel in the tank and filled right up ( 2 inch of gravel ). I toke the gravel out and couldn't even lift it it was that heavey . I changed the gravel for sand ( 2 bags of it ) around 5 cm height. compared to the 3inch of gravel it had it it its nothing ??

I kept doing full water changes and nothing happened.... I was told that when you empty the tank then refill it its the worse bit because that is the main point were it can go though..


When i had the gravel int he tank i could walk up to the tank and the tank wouldn't move but now if you jump in front of the tank or just move your foot the tank moves e.g water goes up and down and creaks. that is with sand in . When the gravel was in the tank wouldn't move or creak. I have been asking around and had people saying its creaking because it ways less. and if i way it down more the creaking will stop and the moving of the water when walking up to the tank will stop because when i had heavey gravel in the tank none of this was happening ,,,,

 

[TropicalLad21]

Don't wanna sound rude but why would you jump in front of your tank?

I'd buy a much smaller tank... sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.

 

[Far2lively]

Hi I agree with tizer, as I'm a carpenter this will strengthen the floor significantly and another bit of advice take up a small part of the carpet and floor boards and check which way the floor joists are going if u have placed the tank in parralell with them I would drain the water asap and move the tank so it spans across the joists, make sure the tank is close to a brick wall and the joists sit on top and you would have to put extreme amounts of weight up the for it too fall through, if u do all this I can guarantee ure floor will be fine unless ofcourse your floor joists are rotting, hope this helps

If u do go to the diy centre buy 18mm plywood as this is far stronger

 

[nick1200]

Ive has a check and there running down so e.g


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O is the tank and i is the floor boards i know its a rubbish diagram.

so its not going across e.g ----- its going down
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Like that . The tank is has close to the wall has possible. I have lifted the carpet and there floor is cemteded there is cement under the flour. So maybe they have replaced the main beams ?? And cemteded them in ?
There was a fire in the house be for i moved in and the fire burgeyed has to look at all the joints and clear them be for anyone moved in.


And when i said jump in front of the tank it was a expression . Meaning the flour was so strong i could jump up and down with the tank there has well .

Also the bottom of the tank is flush 1 board. But the problem is it has like casters on it. which are tinny and the are taking all the weight. They are attached to 1 big board ( the bottom of the stand )
I was thinking would of been better with out them ? And have the bottom of the unit main board on the tank ? Instead of having little caster things on it ?

 

[Tizer]

What is it with you and Flour.

 

[nick1200]

Sorry i am dyslectic . Meaning i get words mixed up has you seen

I could take some pics of the boards under the tank if you like ??? Maybe that would be better to do ???

 

[Tizer]

Ah i thought you were on a mobile with auto correct! Your spelling is very good, at least compared to my friend who also suffers.

 

[nick1200]

Google chrome has a spell checker built in. So goes red when a word is wrong and the word flour wouldn't show wrong because flour is a word.

Would it be better for me to post some images of the boards under the tank / around the tank ??