Mopar Muscle Association UK

Just wonderd if anyone knows how much weight
you can put in a upstairs room? full size slate pool table
total weight 220kg, its fitted with 4 legs about 70mm square at the base
does this mean that each leg will have 55kg of pressure on the floor,
or does'nt it work like that

Sounds fine to me- no different to having 4 large people stood in there

The floor loading will depend on the size of your main beams and the distance they are set apart, usually between 2.5 and 3 Kn/m2 so a point load of 55kg should be fine, to be safe just place a 300 square 1/2 ply spreader under each foot that will spread and reduce the point loading significantly, it can be offset so it is mainly under the table

I had this concern with a cast iron rolltop bath. Took 3 of us to lift the damn thing in there, and its upstairs in a timber frame house. Full of water if probably weighs half a ton. I put some spreaders on floor as Bob says.

Its been there 5 years now and not made its way through floor. Dont take many baths though. Too scared.

Absolutely no issue with 220kg / 4.

Two fat people humpin the night away will put more load on a smaller footprint (Bed legs) than that.

I could'nt guess to the amount but id say that the SWL for a upstairs room per square foot would be far far greater.

db wrote:Sounds fine to me- no different to having 4 large people stood in there

Or one me

220kg sounds a bit light for a f/s slate bed table,some are nearer 2 tons.

aahhhhh me after a typical light snack then

if you put in a water bed

you need a survey done

Dave

Dave999 wrote:if you put in a water bed

you need a survey done

Dave

weight wise?

yeah

concrete floor down stairs is ok

but they look a bit naff in the dning room

upstairs with wood floors

the bed doesn't weigh much

but each liter of water weighs a Kg and takes up a 10cm by 10cm by 10 cm space

you can fit a lot of them in a double water bed


Dave

Si,

NEVER GET A WATER BED

They don't make any bedroom strong enough for you in one of them


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It should be ok in a modern building, timber framed or not, those cast iron baths are'nt that heavy compared to the old ones, should'nt be an issue, water weighs roughly 10 lbs a gallon, similar to gasoline

We did however sell a mate of our's a Jacuzzi corner bath with extra jets etc, he has an old cottage and he had a structural engineer have a look and he said no Bananarama! way

Justin G wrote:Si,

NEVER GET A WATER BED

They don't make any bedroom strong enough for you in one of them


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I dont think i could even get away with it on a concrete floor mate.

and im not going to stoop to your level [although it is on your profile mate ]

Thanks for the replies guys
The house was built in 1905 the room is 4mx5.5m
i dont know the joist dimensions as it has a hardwood floor
Thanks again