How much weight can go upstairs

AL · Post by AL » Thu Oct 13, 11 8:12 pm

I had a tenant who wanted to put an aquarium in his room.I had no issue with that,then one day one of them mentioned it weighs 3/4 ton full,was big,bit like parking a mini there.
Gone now after a year thank god,no visible damage.
220 kg about 3 people worth.

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Fri Oct 14, 11 3:56 pm

All about point loading. 55kg displaced over 1mtr square is nothing, but over the area of a mouse's bellend - humongous.

Trigger_Andy · Post by **Trigger_Andy** » Fri Oct 14, 11 10:45 pm

Clivey wrote:All about point loading. 55kg displaced over 1mtr square is nothing, but over the area of my bellend - humongous.

Dave81 · Post by **Dave81** » Sat Oct 15, 11 5:36 pm

Clivey wrote:All about point loading. 55kg displaced over 1mtr square is nothing, but over the area of a mouse's bellend - humongous.

Thats one big mouse with a great party trick!!

db · Post by db » Sat Oct 15, 11 8:45 pm

Clivey wrote:All about point loading. 55kg displaced over 1mtr square is nothing, but over the area of a mouse's bellend - humongous.

Nicely put

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Mon Oct 17, 11 8:43 am

...its that old analogy drawn between the weight of an elephant displaced over the area covered by its four feet, and the weight of the average woman (not necessarily a salad dodger) displaced over the area covered by two stillhetto heels. I just added a Clivey twist to it. I really have no idea how big a mouses bellend is - or if indeed they have one. It isnt an investigation I intend to conduct any time soon.

....not while I am investigating the average girth of a dung beetle's love truncheon. Muusnt over do it

Dave999 · Post by **Dave999** » Mon Oct 17, 11 9:29 am

bath

2 meters long for arguments sake

0.6 meter high

0.7 meters wide

2x0.6x0.7 = 0.84 m3

thats 840KG + weight of bath + weight of person

940KG

nearly a tonne if you fill the bath to the top

standing on small plastic feet

so average bath 1/2 full is 500KG 1/2 a tonne
even with my conservative bath size

invite someone else in and its 600KG
add the weight of the bath 50-100KG

bath is in small room and connected to wall

even so

think you'll be fine..

interesting to think you could have over a tonne of water in a kids paddling pool

meter cubed water at 20*c weighs 1 metric tonne
meter cubed of average petrol weighs 700KG

water bed double on average 2.5 meters by 2.5 meters by .5 meters

3.125 Tonnes

hence survey neccessary for the bed cos it kicks the baths ass in the weight stakes

Dave

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Mon Oct 17, 11 10:21 am

1 litre of water weighs 1kg. Do the math (or 'maths' for inhabitants of anywhere outside the US of A)

Nothing like brevity eh Dave? If words were money I'd wager on you being a pauper very quickly squire

I weigh 118kg or the same as 118 litres of water, or 118 litre bottles of Volvic, or indeed 236 500ml bottles of Volvic (but not Perrier) - enough to fill the first two refreshment tables at a half marathon, or wash a small car, or drown a large moose, or hold a reasobaly sized swimming gala for a smallish quantity of lemurs. Thats quite a bit of water. You bet your ass it is.

autofetish · Post by **autofetish** » Mon Oct 17, 11 10:44 am

Clivey wrote:1 litre of water weighs 1kg. Do the math.

Water incresses in weight the hotter it gets. So a hot bath would weigh more. Or are you taking a cold bath Clivey ?

latil · Post by **latil** » Mon Oct 17, 11 10:51 am

No,water gets lighter as it heats.
http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/water ... d_595.html

Dave999 · Post by **Dave999** » Mon Oct 17, 11 11:09 am

unless its between 0 and 4 degrees

1 cm cubed of ice is lighter than 1 cm cubed of water at 4 * C

cos water is odd

van DerWaals forces and ting
odd crystals an that

ice cubes float

and the bottom of a very deep lake is always about 4 * C even if the surface is frozen thus preserving the fish

Dave

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Mon Oct 17, 11 11:42 am

I was talking ground temperature in the western hemisphere.

Also:

A canadian Moose

Lemurs from London Zoo

Volvic from the local corner shop.

Perrier from nowhere as I didnt take it into account (cos its french and is probably infused with garlic, or onions thus adding to the weight).

divide all that lot by the contents of my underpants and you come up with a useless figure that you couldnt add pepper to and dip your toast in.

Dave999 · Post by **Dave999** » Mon Oct 17, 11 1:41 pm

Thus preserving the fish

Dave

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Mon Oct 17, 11 2:00 pm

....but only on Tuesdays, after 14:30.

Bit slow there Dave, your forgot that.

autofetish · Post by **autofetish** » Mon Oct 17, 11 2:02 pm

Dave999 wrote:Thus preserving the fish

Dave