Upstairs Tanks

[Miss Wiggle]

right need to find some more room for tanks in my house as Ian's moving in in a few months and bringing 2 tanks, his is 220l and I've a 350l so I figure those should be downstairs, then there's 2 30g ish tanks, and a 20g ish, we've the two 30's stacked for space saving. Whats a safe weight to put upstairs, we've already got the 20 upstairs, at a push there's room for the 30's if we keep them stacked it would be next to the outside wall but upstairs, is that likely to collapse the house?

 

[unspoken930]

Figure out which wall is a weight baring (i duno how to spell... lol) wall and then depending on how old the house is, ext. you should be able to put up to 200 USG there without a problem, on a recently built house... but thats just my opinion, not sure if it works with every house...

 

[Nina]

I have a 3x2x2 and a 48x15x18 and an 18x10x10 upstairs with a 24x12x12 sump.

Must be around 150 gallons and that is fine. I made my 6x2x2 stand from 4x2, and the floor joists are at keast 8x2, if not 10x2.

 

[SamUK]

I have a 3x2x2 and a 48x15x18 and an 18x10x10 upstairs with a 24x12x12 sump.

Must be around 150 gallons and that is fine. I made my 6x2x2 stand from 4x2, and the floor joists are at keast 8x2, if not 10x2.

was that meant to be 6x2x2?

im moving out soon and i really need to do my homework on this cos ill have to get a flat and i dont want my tanks ending up on the ground floor.

 

[Miss Wiggle]

aye I'm already concerned about my big tank falling down into the cellar it's quite an old house so I don't know how sturdy it is. I work for a firm of architects though so I think I'm gonna ask someone to come do some calculations for me and see if I can move them upstairs, probably cost me a fortune